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Originally Posted by admin
It's probably in the registry somewhere.
Start > Run > regedit and then Edit > Find > virtualdub --- and then see what pops up, if anything.
Why not just make a quickie test capture, to tell VDub about the "new" proper location to remember?
ATI is dropping frames in ATI AIW? That may be due to GOP or "quality" settings changes.
Don't put it at 99-100% quality, and then be mindful of GOP length.
Refer to the Dropped Frames guide. Maybe the hard drive jumped out of DMA mode? That happens sometimes.
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Thanks!
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Originally Posted by admin
It's probably in the registry somewhere.
Start > Run > regedit and then Edit > Find > virtualdub --- and then see what pops up, if anything.
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Oh yeah, forgot to write this: I searched registry for virtualdub, vdub (the folder where I put it), and the base name of the file. The ONLY hits I got were for the MRUs (Most Recently Used files for Explorer, etc). Maybe vdub is picking them up there.
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Originally Posted by admin
Why not just make a quickie test capture, to tell VDub about the "new" proper location to remember?
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On the test capture to a different location: it's not that I wanted to change the file location, I wanted to change all settings to default, and I was using storage of the video output location as an indicator of whether I was back to defaults or not.
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Originally Posted by admin
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Ohhhhhh, I did, alright, many many times.
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Originally Posted by admin
Maybe the hard drive jumped out of DMA mode? That happens sometimes.
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Now THAT is something I didn't look at. When I was first setting things up, I verified that the drive was in DMA, however, I did NOT look at it again. I'll look at it again in an hour - see next paragraph.
What I DID do, however, is remember that I had another installation of XP on the same system drive. I fired that one up. It didn't Vdub or Huffy, but it DID have drivers for ATI AIW installed. I got a fresh Vdub.zip and a fresh Huffy.rar.
Installed Huffy, and installed Vdub in a folder NOT in C:\Program Files. Fired up the new Vdub...and guess what? 0 dropped frames. I adjusted some resolution settings, etc, and finally found a combination that was pleasing. . .
. . .and NOW I'm back to production capture! WooHoo! I'm not going to touch that computer until after my captures are finished, then I'll investigate some more. It'll be good to know the technical reasons behind what's going on, but it'll bbe even BETTER to have some production finished!
21 minutes into the capture, and still ZERO dropped frames!
Thanks again for the response!
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edit: found my solution in the VirtualDub forum:
whichever registry key applies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Freeware\VirtualDub
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtualDub.org
They say delete the appropriate one of those^^^ and it's like a new install!
So, after my captures are over, I'll go back to the original install and try to clean it out.