From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 15:42:23 EST
In article <200212021931.gB2JV1Eh052891_at_cinnamon.com>,
Andrew Beals <bandy_at_cinnamon.com> wrote:
>
>>From my testing, the 8.<sumpin> gig drive that came with the 770ED is able to
>handle a 7MB/sec transfer rate
My experience is that hard drives tend to support a higher
transfer rate at the beginning of the drive. Depending upon
the drive and your needs, the difference could be cruciual. So
when I have a capture and miscellaneous drive, I make two
partitions. The first is for capture, the second is for
everything else. If capture rate is an issue, I erase
everything from the capture partition before making a new
capture.
In this case, if capturing is a big part of one's life, I would
consider putting the OS on the second partition of the main
drive (Win2K supports this, I fear that Win9x does not). MMV
because then the OS files load more slowly. TANSTAAFL.
>if you left it as it came with a giant C:
>partition under W98. This is just enough for a video stream if the computer
>were able to encode everything at the full frame-rate. However, windoze has
>its share of hiccoughs which then cause dropped frames. The dropped frames
>end up giving the encoder fits which cause even more dropped frames. It seems
>to me that the video encoder works just fine at smaller (teleconferencing over
>V.32 modems) resolutions, ditto the sound card. But if you want to record
>VHS-quality (320*240) or better video, you're going to have to defer the sound
>recording for later and sync it up with the vid at that point.
>
>
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:59:43 EST