Back to converting video to MPEG. Two problems

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  1. Cheung

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    OK, so I have this problem with my computer (PC)

    I have a PIV with 128RAM and DAzzle DVCII capture card.

    Suffice to say, the bundled software with DVCII is not good.

    Problem 1.
    If I record a length of video as MPEG over 15 minutes in length, the frame rate suddenly slows down. (I got a 40G Hard disk)
    What's happening?

    Problem 2.
    I install Ulead's Mediastudio pro. It can recognise the capture card but I can't capture video! A message comes up saying that another program is using the capture card despite me having uninstalled the Dazzle software and restarting the computer.
    Can anyone help? Have I got a conflict somewhere?

    I'm not a great computer expert but can work my way around the system a little.
    Please, is anybody out there?
     
  2. Pecheur

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    I'll give it a shot:

    However firstly whoever sold you a P4 with 128 MB of RAM should be shot :p There's no point with the way P4's allocate memory to only have 128 MB (Athlon's calculate things differently).

    Anyway first question is, how did you uninstall the initial software? If you didn't do it properly there may be something residual in your registry or start up tasking that points to your capture card. Check out your start up tasking first, I don't recommend playing with your registry unless you really know what you're doing (at least make a start up disk with a copy of your old registry and all drivers before you do).
     
  3. Cheung

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    I used the uninstall command of the program.

    huh, maybe I got it wrong about the RAM. it could be 256 :eek:
     
  4. TDotSmAsHer

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    Too little ram? No problem! RAM is really cheap nowadays... :)
     

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