Dropped frames galore...

[Boul]

I've been reading up on dropped frames, but the number I get seem ridiculous (100 per 1000). My hard drive has been recently defragmented, and I'm capturing using highest video quality in PC-VCR, MJPEG. Desktop resolution is 800*600, I run a celeron system 366@550, and my harddrive is at 78MB/s.

Any quick fixes for this?

[Technoid]

Yor post doesent state if you are capturing to your primary drive.

In that case;
Turn of your swapfile totaly.
Defrag or better use Norton speddisk.
Lock your swapfile to 100MB.
Remove any CD's,dvd's from the drives.
Use AVI_IO (and in that case set it to NOT align to disk sector) it's well worth the money.

And last: GET A second drive.

Read the F.A.Q. at http://www.desktopvideoworld.com/



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INTEL PIII550 MSI 6163
G400Mill 32MB SGRAM + RRG
SBlive
192 MB RAM CAS2
43GB HDD Space!(Actual 40GB) (13+30 Quantum drives)
Pioneer 104S DVD 10x CD 40x SLOT IN
SONY CRX100E 4/2/24 CDRW

[Dayspring]

Also, something I've found is that if you have a network card, either turn it off or remove it, as even if it's not hooked up to a network, it slows down your system a lot.

On top of that, close down all unneeded programs, like all those icons on your program bar. Especially turn off any system agents, these things just make a system handle like a Greyhound bus in the Indy 500...

Matt