Posted by Ralf Hutter on 05/07/06 23:54

On 7 May 2006 07:22:07 -0700, mmaker@my-deja.com wrote:

>Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
>> Hi - I think, despite the 1Ghz machine, your problem is really likely
>> to be windows 98. It's simply not designed to offer anywhere near
>> real-time operating system performance (win2k is better and XP better
>> still in this regard).
>
>I very much doubt the OS itself is the problem. I've edited
>feature-length DV movies on Win98 with few problems.
>
>> The other check I'd make again in device manager - make sure your disk
>> drives and controller are set to use UDMA and not PIO transfers, on
>> everything but the CDROM.
>
>That is far more likely: it does sound suspiciously like the drive
>isn't running with DMA enabled.
>
> Mark


I turned on a USB hard drive and specified that as the capture drive.
It captures great now!!

Thanx, Jeff

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