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maccullo wrote on 4/22/2002, 10:46 PM
check to see that you have dma enabled on your hard drive. I have a similar setup except I have an athlon 900 with 128mb of ram running win2k. No problem with the capture. ati mmc 7.1 gave me the grief your having. Do you have an 32mb or 16 mb card? Sound like something can't keep up (either hardware or software settings/ os.

hope this helps. Its really a great software for the $ compared to video wave 5.

Ian
hendo wrote on 4/23/2002, 12:00 PM
Hi
I think you are cutting it a bit fine on the hardware front, the AMD 450 is within spec but the amount of memory is far to little. You should have at least 128mb preferably more.

You have probably heard this before but it is crucial that you defrag and kill any runing programs in the system tray. and those that get loaded up at start up, that you dont know about. A great little program that does this is called enditall, you can download this for free at http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/

The other thing that I do, is reboot the pc if it has been running a while, use enditall then run VF.

Andrew
Simmer wrote on 4/23/2002, 4:20 PM
This is an interesting thing.

My machine:
2.2GHz
1Gig S800 RDRAM
120Gig 7200RPM HD
1394 OHCI complient capture card

When I capture, VF indicates dropped frames (anywhere from 4-5 to 50-60) initially
only. Then throughout the capture, the dropped frame number never changes.
When I'm done with the capture and click the end button, the status window
indicates thousands of dropped frames (my captures are usually 1-2 hours).
However, when I view the captured video, I cannot see any anomally. The entire
AVI looks wonderful and fluid.
Is there something I'm missing in my understanding of "dropped frames"?

-Mike
randy-stewart wrote on 4/23/2002, 4:28 PM
Ken,
Check out this string:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=98413
It's a discussion on exactly what you are talking about. Turns out that the dropped frames are not really dropped. Hope this helps.
Randy