Interesting link for anyone that has capture problems due to heavy system activity

[Marijn]

Hi there,

I may have a small tip for everyone that experiences problems during capture due to the fact that there are too many program's running in the background. Have a look at the following page:
http://www.shellcity.net/

or even better:
http://www.shellcity.net/content10.htm

I gave juicer a quick try and it starts a bare windows, with no programs at all except itself. I can simply start AVI_IO and capture video, with no programs running in the background.

It thought it might be interesting for the rest of you as well.

Any comments would be great, if you have tried any of the other programs.

Happy editing,

Marijn

[wkulecz]

Other programs? How about using better systems.

On windows 2000 I simply open up task manager and look at the "processes" tab. Anything that consumes significant resources when running in the background that is not running at "low" or "idle priority" immediately gets uninstalled because its a poorly written piece of crap!

TMPGEnc is encoding a VCD while I write this and has 99%CPU at low priority along with 29 other processes running at normal priority and the user interaction is perfectly smooth until Outlook98 wakes up to download Email.

Outlook is the only piece of crap I'm forced to run by factors I can't change. I have to exit outlook before capturing or outputting to tape.

--wally.

[Technoid]

wkulecz - Wich capture card do you use??

[wkulecz]

For analog I use a Hauppauge WinTV and HuffYUV codec (usually). For DV I use an ADS Pyro.

I'm thrilled with the results of VCD and SVCD I can get with TMPGEnc directly from a DV avi file output by MSP6. I output the DV thru the camcorder to record to VHS. I let TMPGEnc crank on it to make VCD or SVCD.

For capture, the apps I use the Vegas Video capture tool downloaded from Sonic Foundry which does very well for DV or analog, but doesn't seem to offer the option of recompression. So I use AVI_IO to capture compressed with HuffYUV.

I'd prefer to have useful drivers for my G200 Marvel, but Matrox can't deliver what a $50 Hauppauge WinTV card can.

--wally.