drop 30 frames every 5 min

mcgeedo wrote on 1/17/2005, 10:23 AM
I have a very strange capture problem. In capture, it will go for about 5 minutes and then drop about 30 frames. Another 5 minutes then another quick drop of 30 frames. I've tried everything I've ever read about and have almost nothing else running.
Dual CPU, 3.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, dedicated capture disk, recently de-fragged., XP pro

Any clues?

Comments

B.Verlik wrote on 1/17/2005, 2:17 PM
How are you capturing? Are you going into an ATI card? Are you using an A/D converter? Are you using another camcorder with 'passthru'? What do you mean when you say you have almost nothing else running? Your computer specs look good. The 5 minute cycle indicates that maybe something else is running. Is it exactly 5 minutes or is it closer to 4 Min. 45 sec (approx 1 gigabyte of Dvideo)?
TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/17/2005, 4:48 PM
sounds like an AV thing or some maintance program in the background. Spyware maybe? Some program checking a net/for a net connection to update?
SonicClang wrote on 1/17/2005, 6:40 PM
Dumb question, but you don't have a screen saver kicking in do you? :D I know, you can kick me if you want, but that was the first thing I thought of after reading "every 5 min".
MyST wrote on 1/17/2005, 6:49 PM
Every 5 minutes could also be Outlook Express set to check for incoming mail every 5 minutes.
Like mentioned before, is it exactly every 5 minutes, or approximately? You mentioned "about" every 5 minutes, but did you time it?

Mario
JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/17/2005, 7:09 PM
Do you have any photo software that is checking USB drives for cards being inserted. I had this problem once and it was the OfotoNow application. It installed a little TSR program that polled the USB ports for memory cards. Try something like EdititAll2 to get rid of all of these programs when you capture.

~jr
Flack wrote on 1/17/2005, 7:24 PM
Have you got smart disk monitoring running this also checks every so often, and another culprit is if you are on a network and its checking the ports..



MJ.