I would invite you all to read the posting by maxdvdburner called 'Ulead Video Studio 9 stutter on capture'. During the journey of his posting, this arrogant idiot, who is a new member and one who we'll hopefully never have to deal with again, managed to alienate just about everyone who tried to help him.
The brief story of the posting is that he purchased the ADS DVD XPRESS DX2 MPEG2 analog capture device in order to capture VHS and Beta footage into his computer.
Two things to point out straight away: Firstly, his computer has a Celeron processor and 496MB of RAM. Secondly, he's tring to use the DX2, a device which I own and which works very well at the one function it's designed for....converting analog footage to MPEG2 with either LPCM audio or MPEG audio and using dedicated Cap Wiz software. But our resident genius is trying to use the DX2 to capture AVI files by using the bundled VS9SE, which is only there for editing, rendering and burning. When he encounters problems, it's all Ulead's fault.
Now all of this would be fine if the user was friendly and receptive, but if you read the thread, you'll see that he blames his own stupidity on Ulead and just about everyone else who tries to help him until a moderator finally locks the thread.
It's worth a read. On your worst day, you've never been as arrogant or stupid as this guy.
A thread worth reading!
Moderator: Ken Berry
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Trevor Andrew
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=19363
Perfectly calm, Trevor. This was just informational on how a user should not seek help on this Forum.
Perfectly calm, Trevor. This was just informational on how a user should not seek help on this Forum.
Terry
I just read the whole thread, being on holidays until today and indeed the symptoms of dropped frames is evident to me, as I witnessed it while trying to import VHS into my pathetic 2.1GHz computer, when quality setting is at 100%.
This is also a good explanation of the apparent random character of the problems.
Beyond HT Chien's sound advices, the only possibility to go MPEG is to lower the quality (80% is OK for my AMD), of course our good-tempered MaxDVDburner repeatedly said this would not be considered...
Let's not forget he's a qualified 15-year experienced man, knowing assembler (I also do, as well as Cobol and Fortran and Basic, if someone needs that), and very well acquainted with modern IT subjects, although a swap file and the FAT/NTFS specifics have not yet arrived to his one-horse town. So all in all he doesn't need your help, and he knows it, he said it.
Now TDK and Steve, I almost saw you losing patience. Tss, can't leave you for a week and you behave badly... Always the same when Xmas is over.
My very best wishes to all the helpful contributors in this forum.
PS Am I the only one frightened by the new Vista patch description? You seem to lose much more than you gain? I think I'm going to keep my trusted W2K for a while.
This is also a good explanation of the apparent random character of the problems.
Beyond HT Chien's sound advices, the only possibility to go MPEG is to lower the quality (80% is OK for my AMD), of course our good-tempered MaxDVDburner repeatedly said this would not be considered...
Let's not forget he's a qualified 15-year experienced man, knowing assembler (I also do, as well as Cobol and Fortran and Basic, if someone needs that), and very well acquainted with modern IT subjects, although a swap file and the FAT/NTFS specifics have not yet arrived to his one-horse town. So all in all he doesn't need your help, and he knows it, he said it.
Now TDK and Steve, I almost saw you losing patience. Tss, can't leave you for a week and you behave badly... Always the same when Xmas is over.
My very best wishes to all the helpful contributors in this forum.
PS Am I the only one frightened by the new Vista patch description? You seem to lose much more than you gain? I think I'm going to keep my trusted W2K for a while.
This my understanding of it.
I have been proven wrong on several occasions in my life. It's not going to improve.
I have been proven wrong on several occasions in my life. It's not going to improve.
Yes I've seen that, still the syndrome hints strongly to dropped frames...GeorgeW wrote:Keep in mind that the poster is dealing with an external mpeg encoding device (from ADS Technologies).
Regards,
George
And as Chien said, other resources or memory can come into play, even a dedicated HW must share the system with the rest. The fact that is was even working means the whole thing is 99,9% enough, but once in so many seconds, it fails to process and evacuate the data in time.
A competition between the card and the swap file for the hard disk buffer can be enough.
This my understanding of it.
I have been proven wrong on several occasions in my life. It's not going to improve.
I have been proven wrong on several occasions in my life. It's not going to improve.
I've captured about 4 hours of analog material using the DX2 with no dropped frames or any issues at all.
My main point to the user was that the DX2 has just one function, and that is to convert analog footage to MPEG2 for capture. VS9 SE comes free with the Device, and Drivers exist to allow capture to either the DX2 Cap Wiz software or VS9 SE..... but only as DVD MPEG2 and not AVI as the user was trying to achieve.
So for him to complain about the Ulead or ADS software causing him problems was inaccurate.
If he had created a video editing profile and captured DVD MPEG2 through the DX2 he would have been fine.
My main point to the user was that the DX2 has just one function, and that is to convert analog footage to MPEG2 for capture. VS9 SE comes free with the Device, and Drivers exist to allow capture to either the DX2 Cap Wiz software or VS9 SE..... but only as DVD MPEG2 and not AVI as the user was trying to achieve.
So for him to complain about the Ulead or ADS software causing him problems was inaccurate.
If he had created a video editing profile and captured DVD MPEG2 through the DX2 he would have been fine.
Terry