Problem capturing in WinXP

PBurdett wrote on 11/15/2002, 1:58 PM

I am having trouble avoiding dropping frames in capturing. I am capturing analog video from my camera onto a separate hard drive. I drop a LOT of frames unless I shut almost every process and application down in WinXP using "msconfig". The only things I keep running (which I discovered through trial and error) is "plug and play" and "windows audio".

Two problems: First, even doing the above, I still drop a few frames. I don't know what else to do about this problem. Could it be the capture card? It's a Hauppage WinTV.

Second, when I start VF in the scaled down environment, I get a pop-up box saying that there was an error in loading VF. VF still starts though, and I am able to capture. Does anyone know what additional program I need running in the background? Could this be part of my dropped frame problem?

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salad wrote on 11/15/2002, 7:48 PM

"I get a pop-up box saying that there was an error in loading VF".

Don't worry about that message, as it comes up on most SF apps when you disable "Terminal Services"....in Start/Run/Services.msc
It has no affect on the app's performance.

It may be the capture card/SF app incompatibility.....or an IRQ issue.
You are trying to capture analog?
How many PCI cards installed?

PBurdett wrote on 11/16/2002, 11:13 PM

I'm glad to hear that the error message is nothing to worry about. It didn't seem to give me any problems, but I was not sure how long my luck would hold out on that.

I am not sure what a PCI card is, but I have one video capture card added in. If there are any other cards of any sort in there then they came with the computer. As I recall there are a few slots left.

I don't think the capture card is incompatible, because it works reasonably well. Last night I captured a number of 3 minute clips and more than half of them had no dropped frames. The others dropped from 1 to 4. (That seems like heaven compared to the 2 per second I was dropping before I got the second hard drive!)