Avi_Io Strange one, anyone have solution?

[jezheads]

Hi there, trying to cap something in avi using huffy codec then would use tmpg to convert to svcd but here's my problem. After capturing roughly an hour of avi video a message comes up saying: NO MORE I/O BUFFERS AVALIBLE PLEASE REDUCE DATA RATE. What's that mean?? I am able to capture more than the 2 gig or 4 gig limit so i know it's not that. Can anyone help me out on this tricky one?

[snowmoon]

That error means that your hardware cannot sustain the capture setting and compression settings you have chosen. It has gone through all of it's buffers and now is so far behind it has to give up.

I would look into what other applications are running at times intervals ( virus, clock, spyware, ... ) since if it was running for an hour there should be no reason for it to give up all of a sudden like that. You can monitor the buffers it's right next to the capture farmes and time as x/50 once it reached 50 it will stop.

[jezheads]

Even after i rebooted the system and have nothing else running while it's capping? What are my alternatives then to correct such a problem?
thanks
rob

[snowmoon]

Lower your resolution or use a higher compression codec. Your hardware cannot keep up with the ammount of data you are attempting to write to the disk,

[jezheads]

Appreciate your quick responses What's the next lower one to go with under huffy? That's the one i was using so i guess the next lowest should give me over two hours worth of capping without a problem?
Rob

[snowmoon]

I normally use PIC MJPEG, but that is no longer free for personal use.

[jezheads]

i have that one as well but for example, roughly how much hard drive space is needed for 2 hours worht of capping?

[snowmoon]

720x480 @ 29.97 with quality=18 I get ~7-9 GB/hr for captures.

[jezheads]

snowmoon: any way i can get in touch with you thru email or whatever?
please let me know
rob@trebnet.com
thanks