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Originally posted by nickg:
...as most PC's can't compress the video that quickly. I can only do 320x200 reliably in MPEG4 on my 1Ghz Athlon, as if I select 640x480, it either crashes or drops LOTS of frames. ...Nick...
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Nick, how's your hard drive speed? If you're running your apps off the same drive you use to capture, it could be the problem. I capture lots of raw DV from a camcorder through a Pyro firewire card... tried running it on the same disk as the apps, but too slow. Finally used a RAID 0 striping (2 ATA 66 of 30gigs each to avoid dropping frames. Works like a charm. I used a Promise card, but there are lots of motherboards with the RAID built in. You just add disks. using the 0-striping, even ATA 66 drives can outperform SCSI drives, at a fraction of the price. - John Ebbinghaus