Why is my RRG having so many problems?

[Gunnar1979]

Well, I gave up on the audio issue, seems that the pass through only works through the matrox driver when enabled in the pc-vcr app, but routing the audio directly to the sound card works alright.

In any case, for a 17 minute segment, the thing drops about 30 frames, for what reason I have no idea. I have a PII 233 on an LX motherboard, hooked with a UW SCSI drive, but when I capture through VirtualDub, it says that the CPU utilization is 30% or lower, and the bandwidth requirement for cd quality audio and NTSC yuy (with Huffyuv) capture is 5 MB/s. I did the matrox hdd bench and the SCSI pulls easily 7.99mb/s. Its not the CPU, and I have the bandwidth, what is it? I thought it might be the 29.97 fps yielding a weird frame count, but the numbers don't really work.

When I finally made a vcd (with the captures of dropped frames), the audio cuts out after three minutes on each track. I went back and checked the mpgs, and found that the audio disappeared there, however I know for a fact it was there before I sent it to TMPGEnc. And it dropped the audio I guess. Could it be that my CPU is too underpowered to run the compressor?

And lastly, the captured video is awesome on my pc, including the encoding, but when I view it on TV, the color bleeds everywhere. Granted I am using a Sega Saturn to display it, but is it the problem?

Thanks for listening, hope someone can help.

Gunnar

[Technoid]

Your Cpu is definitly to underpowered!
Huffyuv is very cpu stressing on decompression, the author states 200+ fps capture/compression bur only 20+ fps DEcompression.

Hardvare VCD players seem to have problems with the highest motionseek in TMPGEnc.

Sega's Saturn might not be 100% VCD compliant or it might only be VCD1 and not VCD2 Compliant.