Is my HD the problem here (added system specs)?

[NTB]

I started playing with an old TV tuner the other night to do some video capture, and so far it works perfectly...as long as I only do 320x240. Anything higher and I start dropping frames like crazy. Is my harddrive the bottleneck here? it's an 80GB/7200RPM Maxtor with, I think, a 2MB buffer - it's just a standard drive, no SE / large cache.

if the drive is the problem, what's the best cure? RAID would be my guess, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Would something with a larger cache - like WD's 8MB models - help?

Nate

 

[ScrapSilicon]

might be as far as it will go..who makes it and which model..? tia

 

[EeyoreX]

It could be your hard drive.
It could also be CPU, RAM, a driver conflict, etc.
I might not be the best to be able to help with this specific problem, but I may be able to offer more help (as well as others) if we had more specs on the machine you are trying to work with.

\Dan

 

[NTB]

The rig in question is the Bebop in my sig:

AMD AthlonXP @ 1400MHz
Epox EP-8k5A2+ (VIA KT333)
512MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM
1x40GB/7200RPM HDD (Western Digital)
1x80GB/7200RPM HDD (Maxtor)
PNY Verto Geforce 3 Ti-200
SoundBlaster Audigy
Hollywood+ DVD decoder (for output to TV)
Hauppauge WinTV tuner
Windows XP Pro

Need anything else? right now I'm just capturing raw video. I realize that it takes up gobs of space, but a) I'm just recording half- to one-hour shows right now (only done a half-hour so far); I'll work on compressing it later. The 80GB is better than half empty, so I should have plenty of space to work with - for a half-hour video anyway.

Nate

 

[NTB]

bump

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Hauppauge WinTV tuner

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
Hauppauge WinTV tuner

Been there & done that. Latestest drivers & TV application are already installed. Thanks anyway.

Nate

 

[thorin]

1) What version of directX do you have installed?
2) Have you updated your codecs?

Thorin