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Finally got to run some tests. I disabled the screen saver but not
Norton anti-virus or firewall. I captured video from an analog
camcorder for over an hour and experienced no problems at all. I've
very happy with the DAC-100 capture device. It was trivial to install
and use. Now I've got to figure out how to use the Intervideo WinDVD
Creator software that came with the DVD writer. I've never done any
video editing before and right now, it's a bit overwhelming. I
captured ~ an hour of video and then didn't know what to do with it.
The software has an automatic segmenting function with a choice of
segmenting thru sensing or timed segments. Sensing seems to create a
new segment every time the camcorder was turned off and on. This is
going to be a new experience for me.
Thanks for the help. I'll try to post another article when I have
something to report.
Terry
David Chien <chiendh@uci.edu> wrote in message news:<cfdpjj$mio$1@news.service.uci.edu>...
> > Most anti-virus software has a scan-on-access option,
> > which can definitely interfere with capturing even on fast
>
> Nevertheless, with less than 5% CPU usage (based on various PC
> Magazine and other magazine tests, most antivirus scanners won't cause
> any trouble on modern 2Ghz+ Pentium computers with 7200rpm hard drives.
>
> I've run both McAfee and Norton (at different times) on my 2Ghz P4 PC
> with 512MB RAM and 120GB 7200rpm HD w/o any problems at all, and this is
> with my ATI All-In-Wonder TV tuner card displaying TV on screen and me
> doing other things at the same time as regular DV capturing. No
> glitches, dropped frames, etc. at all through 2+ hour captures I
> routinely do.
>
> (even more impressive when I had a larger desktop PC case -- I could
> run the RealMagic Hollywood+ board playing VCD/DVD in one window at the
> same time as ATI All-In-Wonder was playing TV in another window, and the
> DV capture was going on in another window, and me surfing the net in the
> fourth all at the same time w/o dropped frames)
>
> Given that the DV capture rate was specified at a time when 500Mhz
> PCs were the max, I would hardly worry about a virus scanner or other
> background program interfering with most DV captures. Yes, there might
> be some out there that'll caused dropped frames, but most common
> background programs won't affect anything at all.