Best capture program

HaroldC wrote on 5/29/2006, 2:07 PM

I got my Canopus 110 about a week ago. I'm finally able to do want I had wanting when I bought the system a few years ago. But one aspect of the gigapocket application that I wish were in the VMS capture is scheduling capture. Are there any programs that would allow me to do that?

Thanks,
Harold

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Chienworks wrote on 5/29/2006, 2:46 PM

http://www.chienworks.com/software/vidcaptimer/

It's only in v0.2 beta but it seems to work pretty well. I use it daily and have done hundreds of unattended captures with it. It won't select a TV channel for you, but it will start and end multiple captures and rename the clips.

This program actually uses Vegas' VidCap program so you must have it already running in the background.

HaroldC wrote on 5/29/2006, 4:33 PM

I'll give it a go. There isn't a problem about not being able to schedule specific channels. DirecTV will change the channel when the time comes.

Now is this a program that you wrote or is it a beta testing by Sony?

Harold

Chienworks wrote on 5/29/2006, 4:37 PM

It's one of my own. SONY had nothing to do with it. I don't say that out of pride though. I say it so that if you have problems with it you'll yell at me instead of them. ;)

HaroldC wrote on 6/8/2006, 4:44 PM

Chienworks I've run a test capture of a short clip. It works fine. There were dropped frames about a second into the clip. There were no others though. Does that normally happen? If it does I'll just record a minute earlier. It otherwise works great.

Thanks,

Harold

Chienworks wrote on 6/8/2006, 7:45 PM

I can't think of anything my program would do that would encourge (or prevent, for that matter) dropped frames. It merely hands off control to VidCap to do the actual capturing. It may just have been a fluke on your system ... something else suddenly needed lots of processor cycles or disk access right then.

I usually run VidCap with a priority of Above Normal just to be safe.

Tim L wrote on 6/9/2006, 5:26 AM

If this is being used like a "TiVo" recorder, to start recording at a certain time, perhaps the PC was in a sleep mode, or screen saver, or maybe the hard drive was spun down when the recording program started? Might take a few seconds to get everything up to full speed?

Tim L

HaroldC wrote on 6/10/2006, 7:28 AM

No, none of those. The computer is always on. I have closed a number of programs that run in the background. I will probably up my memory to a gig in the near future.