An Idea for people that keep dropping frames

[Arc]

I have an ATI AIW 8500DV that I bought for video capture. Namely VHS archiving. I'm using it in a Sony 2.4GHZ WinXP Home PC w/512MB DDR RAM 80GB HD set to DMA. The problem is that even when I thought I closed enough programs that seem to run in the background, I would get several frame drops per hour.

The solution I found was to download a program called "End It All (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,5845,00.asp)" from PCmag.com. Whenever you are ready to capture video (or burn a DVD, etc.) you can run "End It All" and it will show any programs that are running in the background and terminate them. I can now capture full 2 hour VHS programs at one time with 0 frame drops.

Just thought I would pass this along to anyone starting out & having frame drops.

[Ookami]

Thanks. BTW, why don't you use the latest version?

http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/

[dilly]

Good to know! I hope I can run it in Task Scheduler - so I can kick anyone who may be running programs on my computer (including myself) off when something needs to record.

[symonjfox]

Yes.

Another method is to enable "Hide on capture" and disable "show information pannel" in Virtual Dub. It can reduce up to 10% the cpu load on my system (yes, you won't see nothing at all ... ):rolleyes:

[Arc]

I didn't realize there was a newer version, thanks for the heads-up! :cool: