VHS to DVD on AIW128Pro

Hi,

I wanted to copy a VHS to DVD. I do not have a dvd recorder but I
remembered that I had an old AIW128Pro in the loft. I plugged it into
a 1GHz Atlhon with 1Gb RAM but it loses 40% frames at dvd resolution.
Is that right? Whilst 1GHz may not be cutting-edge I thought it would
be more than fast enough.

Thanks.

"Sam" <sam@nospam.here.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I wanted to copy a VHS to DVD. I do not have a dvd recorder but I
> remembered that I had an old AIW128Pro in the loft. I plugged it into
> a 1GHz Atlhon with 1Gb RAM but it loses 40% frames at dvd resolution.
> Is that right? Whilst 1GHz may not be cutting-edge I thought it would
> be more than fast enough.
>
> Thanks.

ATI says it takes a 500MHZ P3 to do DVD High. I have a 450MHZ that comes
very close. You need to keep any thing that isn't essential from running.
Things like Anti-Virus, firewall, network access. Disabling unneeded cards
in Device Manager, especially network/modem, may help too. IOW your CPU is
fast enough but you have to make sure the system isn't doing something else.

Could be the tape/player. 40% is really off.

You'll be wasting file space, IMHO, capturing to DVD High. Half DVD(352X480)
works for me. Doesn't take much resolution to cover VHS. For more info see
digitalfaq.com.

1 GHz is NOT nearly powerful enough to re-code video signals from VHS format
to DVD format.. You would need a modern high power computer for that.

--
--DaveW

"Sam" <sam@nospam.here.com> wrote in message
news:n38kv3lcrcpalfrf01liitoaoilvdcui9j@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to copy a VHS to DVD. I do not have a dvd recorder but I
> remembered that I had an old AIW128Pro in the loft. I plugged it into
> a 1GHz Atlhon with 1Gb RAM but it loses 40% frames at dvd resolution.
> Is that right? Whilst 1GHz may not be cutting-edge I thought it would
> be more than fast enough.
>
> Thanks.