Analog capture

[Sammy63]

Primary- Ultra DMA mode 5
Secondary- Ultra DMA mode 2

[Sammy63]

One last thing, my computer has a pentium 4, 2.6 ghz, 1.25 g ram.
Is that enough? I don’t have the money to just go out and load up on ram if I’m not sure if that’s the problem or not.

[Edward Troxel]

Your system sounds plenty capable for capturing video. How many hard drives do you have?

Edward Troxel

[Laszlo Kovacs]

What kind of firewire do you use?
Onboard/standalone PCI?
Chipset?

If You use standalone PCI FW, try it in another
slot – there may be some IRQ conflict.

How often do you defrag your drives?

By(t)e
Laca

[Sammy63]

First of all, thanks for all of your input with this problem. I never expected this much attention for my problem. You guys have been great.
To answer all the questions:
I have three hard drives- Master 160g, secondary 200g, and a hot swappable 300g. All are 7200 rpm I believe, and I use one of the secondary drives when I’m capturing. I do a football video for our local high school every year and use up a lot of space.
I defrag those hard drives quite often (at least monthly) and had just defragged them before doing this latest capturing.
As far as the firewire goes, I have no idea. I didn’t even know there were different ones, but you bring up an interesting thought. I know I have several firewire ports but have for the life of this computer always used the one in the front for convenience.
I will definitely try one of them in the back. Wouldn’t that be great if that’s all it was?
Once again guys, thanks so much. Sam

[Laszlo Kovacs]

>Secondary- Ultra DMA mode 2

Ooops, that could be a bottleneck.

UDMA, Max transfer rate MB/s
Mode 0, 16.7
Mode 1, 25.0
Mode 2, 33.3
Mode 3, 44.4
Mode 4, 66.7
Mode 5, 100.0

If your drive is really a 7200 rpm, should be
capable to mode 4 at least.

Either your dirve is defect, or it’s cable
is not a 80 conductor wire.
Try to capture to the drive that works in mode 5,
and see what happens.

Best regards.

By(t)e
Laca