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  Decklin Extreme troubles

  Posted by Marc Bauwens on April 25, 2006 at 6:56 am

  Hi,

  I’m getting strange issues with my Decklink extreme card.
  The card is PCI and when I try to capture footage thru the Firewire port, frames are dropping like crazy !! I tries the speedtest, but the test gives me ample speed for the required task. Anyway, when I disable the Decklin video desktop, I can capture without dropping frames, but the capture preview looks jerky although the captured footage is fine. I’m sure the issue is with the Decklink, because when I uninstalled it, Firewire capture is flawless.

  I think it might be related to some hardware, as I discovered that my ASUS P4C800E deluxe motherboard has 32-bit PCI slots instead of the recommended 64-bit. Could this be the bottleneck ??

  My complete config:

  ASUS P4C800E mobo with P4 3,2 Ghz and 2 GB DDR400 RAM
  Primary system disk Maxtor Diamondmax 9plus 80gb S-ATA
  RAID 0 for video, 2 Maxtor Diamondmax 9plus 80gb S-ATA striped with the on mobo RAID controller (Promise)
  S-ATA disk 200 GB for audio.
  Decklink extreme PCI card.
  Adobe Premiere Pro 2

  Do I need to get another motherboard and if yes which one (I’m in Europe).
  Thanks for any comments or suggestions that could clear this issue up.

  Marc Bauwens replied 20 years ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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