video capture in Windows XP - drop frames?

[RayTy]

I am capturing footage from a VHS VCR hooked up to a GeForce2 video card. It's a 900mhz processor (I have forgotten whether its Pentium 2 or 3) with 512 megs of RAM. It's a dual boot system, Win98 and Win2000. When I capture 640 x 480 footage in Windows 98, I never drop frames, no matter how long I capture. When I capture in Win2000, I drop many frames per second. My computer has become corrupted and now I have to rebuild my machine. It would be much simpler to just use one Windows operating system, hence the Windows XP inquiry. Does Windows XP handle video capture as poorly as Windows 2000?

 

[linney]

All I can help you with is this.

You don't see many questions in this forum about video capture and dropped frames.

 

[KimLeece]

Hi-
Windows XP has the possibility to have Movie Maker 2 as an update from Microsoft. From there DV capture works flawlessly on my mates system - he only has an 800mhz cpu with 128Mb RAM installed, so it's truly amazing really. Wether it would be as good with analogue capture I'm not sure - but I don't see why not.
Linney's point about the forum is also true - but with a question like your's it is very hard to know which forum to go to! (I have already asked the Forum Manager to maybe think about creating a new forum for these type of issues - but I have no idea what the response was! In any event I didn't see one yet!)

Kim.

'Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.'
Will Rogers.

 

[Atmos5]

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