What needs to be upgraded on my system to prevent frame drop?

I have:

k6-2 450, 96mb, 4mb ati rage lt pro, ati tv wonder, 10gb hd(4gb left).

-- david lee (towerofpisa@yahoo.com), January 16, 2000

Answers

Your video card. You have more than enough power in the system RAM and processor. Simply change to a video card with DVD decoding and you are up and running.

-- The Lone Ranger (rutger_S@hotmail.com), January 16, 2000.

what is it u are playing back when it drops frames? mpeg, mpeg2, or avi? your system seems more than robust enough to play back a vcd. mpeg2 would probably drop frames, but if it is mpeg or avi it must be at a pretty high rez to drop frames. maybe your trying to capture and its dropping frames?

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), January 16, 2000.

Are you dropping frames on playback or in video capturing?

-- NT (i1x@nightmail.com), January 16, 2000.

Frame drops when video capturing. I was using winvcr to capture direct into mpeg. this happens using video player capturing to avi. the ati lt pro is embedded into the m/b. u know, compaq.

does it matter if the monitor resolution is at 800x600?

Lone Ranger, Would adding another 4mb video ram help? there r no more slots in my pc to take another pci card.

btw, ati will be sending version 2 of their video player. says it will do real-time mpeg capturing.

-- david lee (towerofpisa@yahoo.com), January 17, 2000.

Hi David Based on your system configuration, you should have enough power to capture your video without any problems.

However, your hard disk seems a little full, 4GB left from 10GB. Clean up your hard disk. Remove files you don't need and defrag the hard disk.

If your hard disk isn't 'defrag', data is written in randomly available clusters and not in continuous cluster. This will slow down the hard drive when it needs to access the information. This can result in drop frames during video capture.

I am not familiar with the capture card you have but for video work in a PC, your video display memory has nothing to do with video capture.With 4MB video ram, at worst your playback and capture is jerky but does not affect your capture or editing. This is especially true when playing back avi or mov files which are huge. Once you mpeg these files, your playback will be smoother.

Another pointer, if your video display card is set to 24bit or 36bit, the video display performance will be worst. Try setting it to 16bit. Don't worry that the setting will affect your capture. It won't. As this is for display only, it has no bearing on your capture or edits.

Hope this helps.

Regards, NT

-- NT (i1x@nightmail.com), January 17, 2000.