'Edward' wrote, in part:
| This didn't happen with my crappy little USB video capture - I think
| it was made by IREZ or something.
|
| I'll check the system monitor andlet you know.
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Try 'Process Explorer' (free at http://www.sysinternals.com). 'Process
Explorer' will give you much more detail. The capture aids in VIVO cards do
not have hardware encoders... it very well may be that your USB capture
device had a hardware encoder, and thus gave better quality. You haven't
said what kind of compression and encoding you use with your VIVO, but
'Process Explorer' will show the bottleneck.

Phil Weldon

"Edward" wrote in message
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| On Jan 29, 1:01 am, Paul wrote:
| Edward wrote:
| When trying to capture video from an analog source, through the
| composite or S-video ports, it starts dropping frames and slowing
| down.
| I know my PC is powerful enough with a 3.4 Ghz Pensium and a gig of
| ram. Even if I reduce the wuality to 300 lines its still crappy. I
| am using version 4.13 of the WDM driver with the same results.
| My video card is an MSI GF7600gt.
|
| What's going on?If you preview without capturing, is there still a
problem ?
|
| If you capture without a preview window being present, does it drop
frames ?
|
| Are there any messages in Event Viewer ? Any error messages ?
|
| If you open up Task Manager with ctrl-alt-delete and use the
| Performance tab, is there anything strange you see there,
| while previewing and capturing ?
|
| The time period of a minute, suggests RAM is
| exhausted. And that is why I want you to look at the
| Performance tab, just to see if there is anything
| visibly bad there.
|
| Paul
|
|
| That's what I was thinking - RAM.
| But why would it happen even when I cap at 320? that shoul dbarely
| take up any RAM at all.
|
| This didn't happen with my crappy little USB video capture - I think
| it was made by IREZ or something.
|
| I'll check the system monitor andlet you know.
|