Can it be done?

[zeb7]

> Which means you are capturing to a separate drive!
LOL ; I see you point Phil ,very funny

But i was actually trying to demonstrate that if window is setup correctly
and you have enough ram (256mb with win98se) there is no Windows activity (my drive :C)
and there no Swap file activity (my drive : D )

I posted this info because Tsuby would not know what type of disk activity he has ,until after
he bought a new hard disk that didn't solve the problem

Tsuby ;

I think you should investigate Flying Duchman's post , looks like it will help you capture the full image without missing the upper part of the screen

[Flying dutchman]

@tsuby:

I recommend you defragment your drive thoroughly before capturing. This avoids "seeking" problems that cause dropped frames. Use a utility like Norton Speeddisk rather than Microsoft's defrag because the latter stubbornly refuses to keep all free space in one large block.

[Tsuby]

Tsuby would not know what type of disk activity he has

Actually... "she" has

However... thanks for the help ^_^

I have now created a new partition "d" in the middle of the disk (where drives d & e used to be...) and moved all data to another partition at the end of the disk (partitions f&g... well, I could not capture on that drive anyway ).

D seems to be in the middle of the disk and capturing is more or less ok (after 10 minutes or so I get the buffer full error, but I don't have that much free space left on the drive, so I should probably stop anyway in a minute or so).

By the way, the problem with the screen being "cut" is really a video problem, because the final output of the recording is ok, there are no parts of the screen missing.
I just cannot see the upper part of the screen while I capture, which *is* annoying after a while, because sometimes important things happen just there where you don't see them!
I don't know where that comes from, but I can still live with that.

I also keep defragmenting the disk. However, since I only use the drive for capturing now, sometimes I just do a quick formatting it and start over (once in a month or so...).

Thanks for the help! I wish you could see the results ^_^. I am so happy now... unfortunately my last mpeg2 was about 612MB (8minutes video ), so I'd better not post it


Tsuby

[Flying dutchman]

@Tsuby:

>Actually... "she" has

Nice to have a Murcette in this forum - they are too rare!

[zeb7]

>until after "he" bought a new hard disk that didn't solve the problem

" Oops! ... I Did It Again"


Also you may want to try limiting the windows file cache , because AVO_IO
use's its own buffering with your free ram.
By letting window grab all the spare ram (which it often like's to do ) will decrease the amount
of ram available for avi_io to use as buffers.

limiting the File cache also decreases the chance of swap File usage.

the file cache can be set by typing these line in the SYSTEM.INI file in the windows folder

Find the line "[vcache]" in the sysem.ini (open with notepad)
Reboot Windows to use the new settings.

[vcache]
minfilecache=8192
maxfilecache=64512

this gives me a minimum of 8mb and maximum of 64mb of file cache.
If the computer has 64mb or less ram , then limit the cache further to ;
[vcache]
minfilecache=1024
maxfilecache=8192

[VJ]

On the NTSC-issue:
Instead of trying another VCR, you could try with a TV-set that has 2 SCART-connections. Connect the VCR to one of them, and connect the G200 to the other. (the TV would have to be set to display the scart-input from the vcr)
If I remember correctly, this will have the TV output the converted signal (PAL), instead of the incoming PAL-60.

Jörg