Can I capture to my OS drive?

[drewson99]

I have heard people advise against this. I am capping to a partition on the same drive as my OS, and am dropping a few frames here and there. P4 2.4GHz, 7200rpm, 1GB ram.

Is this my problem? it seems to be okay when I do this on my other computer, which happens to be a little less powerful. Help!

[drewson99]

help please, i am losing it...

[Hong Kong Phooey]

If you're capturing to the same partition as what your system drive is,(eg:C drive),then yes. If its a different partition on your primary drive, then thats better, though a 2nd HDD is always ideal.

What sort of % of frame drops are you experiencing?

[drewson99]

1 in 40 frames about.

[bbeiler]

1 in 40 frames about.

That is WAY too many for the machine you described. I have a P4 1.6 and I drop about 55 frames per HOUR (That is less than 2 sec. worth) on the HD with the OS. However, with a 2nd Harddrive (8MB cache) I drop about 8-10 frames per HOUR.

Both situtations are using Virtual dub (Huffy compression) at 704x480 Resolution.

Describe a little more how you are capturing, and we'll figure this out. If you are capturing with Virtual dub. Make sure you are using "capture video" mode (f6), and not "capture video (compatibility)" mode (f5).

You shouldn't be dropping any.

[vh5150]

I have heard people advise against this. I am capping to a partition on the same drive as my OS, and am dropping a few frames here and there. P4 2.4GHz, 7200rpm, 1GB ram.

Is this my problem? it seems to be okay when I do this on my other computer, which happens to be a little less powerful. Help!

I forgot to mention in my previous posts in this forum that I capture to my OS drive with maybe 1-5 dropped frames per 5 minutes.