pinnacle dc30 MJPG avi -> svcd too slow??

[KF]

I'm trying to encode my mjpg avi 352x576 pal to svcd. CCE accepts the file resolution so no need for frame serving. But I'm still only getting 0.5??? I have a PIII 1Ghz cpu win98se platform with over 300Mb ram. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?? I tried a mainconcept DV file resized via avisynth and I still got 0.9 with CCE. What's wrong with the MJPG file. I thought it would use the hardware on the capture card to decompress. Shouldn't that make it faster??

I picked this resolution for an experiment so as to have nothing else in the chain other than the MJPG avi and cce.

[disturbed1]

Try using another software mjpeg codec like Pic Video (http://www.jpg.com/video/mjpeg.htm) or Morgan M-JPEG (http://www.morgan-multimedia.com)

The Pinnacle/Miro cards use hardware encoding, but still use software for decoding.

The Morgan codec is faster IMHO. I had the same prob with my card until I installed the Morgan codec. Not super fast, but faster than the Pinnacle one.

[KF]

Yes, but how can I get the PICVideo MJPG codec to coexist with my DC30 codec??
Whilst writing this I thought of the following...

I was thinking of installing the PICVideo and then altering the FourCC MJPG references in system.ini and the registry to something like PJPG and then reinstalling the Pinnacle DC30+ drivers to cater for the MJPG. That way I could capture the footage and use a small utility to alter the avi's FourCC to PJPG so that I could then edit using PICVideo's codec. Then if I ever want to playback to tape I just need to alter the FourCC of the avi back to MJPG. Otherwise if I need to convert to MPEG I could leave it as PJPG as the PICVideo would be faster at decompressing.

What do you think? Could it work???