terminal capture frustation setting in

[jonnybignote]

If anybody can help, I could be persuaded not to throw my machine in the road. Win 98SE 566 Celeron, 128mb, 10gb QuantumFireball HD (ata66), CyberTainment CyberMail AV card (bt878. Tried most of the software on this site and even with virtualdub and huffyuv, the highest resolution achieved has been 352x240 ntsc 29.97fps. It does passable dvd capture but I really want it capturing from analogue camcorder and burning to vcd. For this, the quality isn't good enough. I was hoping that a greater capture resolution would mean an eventual better quality vcd but I drop frames at anything more than the above figures. I thought that my configuration would allow better results than this. Any help would be greatly appreciated byt both me and my - soon to be - road splat computer...
Also, are there any filters that can be employed to imporve upon the capture of video camcorders.

Thanks a lot

[Dman65]

Have you tried benchmarking your hard drive with the bench mark program that comes with virtualdub? You need to do that to get an idea of how much throughput you have. You are going to need at least about 8 MBytes/sec and I would look for more cushion than that. You will need to defrag your capture drive and capture to a drive other than your system drive. not just a different partition, but a different drive. You may want to try PicVideo MJPEG CODEC. When I was playing with it and Huffy I found that PicVideo was a bit less CPU intensive which is important with your CPU. Someone else may have a different take on the CPU loading. But, use a seperate, defragmented capture drive and test the transfer rate.