Dropped Frames - Help

Bit Of Byte wrote on 6/29/2005, 11:39 PM

HI Team!

I have severe problems now with dropped frames..

Every frame captured is a dropped frame.

I am running a Firewire cable to PC from my MIniDV Camera.

Can someone please help?

I am capturing to a blank 240 GB HDD without any OS or anything else on it.

I have minimised amunt of applications running, etc.

PLease help

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 6/30/2005, 8:51 PM

135 Mbps for DV

Actually you only need 3.6MBps (Mega Bytes per second) for DV (around 29Mbps).

Steve Mann wrote on 6/30/2005, 9:16 PM

You're right, I was thinking of uncompressed HD.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/30/2005, 10:01 PM

I can't imagine that's the case - maybe *MAYBE* for uncompressed 8bit SD???

Dave

Bit Of Byte wrote on 7/1/2005, 8:19 AM

THanks N19093.

I did what you said and comes back with 230.4 frames per second - 9.2 times real time.

Actual write speed wil be lower when capturing ..

What does all this mean?

Is it good or bad?
would it casue dropped frames?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/1/2005, 8:56 AM

That meams... the test is saying your system is more than capable of capturing to your hard drive with zero dropped frames. In other words... the problem is not with your hard drive.

We already knew that (at least I did... as I have the same mptherboard and had the same problem as you)

Don't be diverted from your "primary" task now... and that is to get a new firewire card. That's what "we" found out yesterday needs to be done right.