Re: Will a seperate hard drive enhance my video playback?
From: peter (peter_at_nomalarky.net)
Date: 11/28/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:06:22 -0700
No insult intended here but there are various versions of "high end"
machines that are crap.I do not have what I would call a high end
machine.But when I play a DVD on my system I do not get jitters and when I
record a TV program onto my 2nd HD, an older 100 drive and play it back it
plays smoothly.I also have a Sony camcorder ..the TVR250 and I record digitally
and transfer to hard drive to burn to a DVD.When I convert that mpeg2 file to a
mpeg4 file it still plays smoothly.I use the 2nd HD mainly for video and
backups.So most of the workload is on that drive even though it is slower than
my SATA drive.
I use a Radeon 9600 pro video card with 128mg of on board ram as
well as 1gig of 3200 DDR ram on my Asus A7N8deluxe ver2.0 motherboard.
I use a Hauppauge TVR250 TV tuner and occasionally input analogue recordings and
convert to digital.
Do you have a onboard video or a seperate video card and is it PCI or AGP ??
peter
"Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7ADE3977-EF16-47AA-9F42-FE7334BDD8EF@microsoft.com...
> Yeah, I wondered that also, Peter, but it is after all, a fairly new computer
> I just bought .... and I did get [as far as my limited fore-knowledge of the
> gear went] a pretty high end machine. ... will have to research the
> comparative speeds of a firewire transfer vs. my present drive setup ....
>
> "peter" wrote:
>
>> Have you ever thought that maybe it is not your HD that is causing this
>> problem??? but the capabilities of your video card to capture and play the
>> necesary information required ??
>> Do a speed search on transfer speed of your HD versus the transfer speed of a
>> firewire enabled HD....
>> peter
>> "Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:39A32891-ACFA-4FE2-B34C-30C6E4B88178@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks for that reply;
>> >
>> > Oh, I have a pentium 4; I'm thinking of getting, say, a 200G [external]
>> > hard
>> > drive; but if I connect it with my firewire cable, won't sending/retreiving
>> > my video files be straightforward? I guess the cocumentation i get w/the
>> > drive will explain it.
>> >
>> > I'm mostly anxious to know that getting this "beast" will truly be the
>> > solution I've been trying looking for ...
>> >
>> > ... ... in search of smoooooooth video ... ...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Andrew E." wrote:
>> >
>> >> A new larger internal hd would be a step in the right direction,increase
>> >> from
>> >> current size,then set current to slave,set it as youre page file along
>> >> with
>> >> new.
>> >> This is done thru system properties,advanced,settings,change button,click
>> >> on
>> >> a drive or highlite it,set to,"let windows manage" then click set 2 X,do
>> >> for each.
>> >> With so much ram,you should also,disable pagingexecutive thru regedit.You
>> >> wrote "pentium" which one,4 or 3,P3 will be somewhat slower than a P4,if
>> >> P4
>> >> what size,a 2.4 or above would be ok.The hd is youre 1st step as
>> >> mentioned,
>> >> also as microsoft highly recomends.
>> >>
>> >> "Michael" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I am considering getting one of those large external hard drives; hook
>> >> > up
>> >> > via
>> >> > firewire, and capture-edit-transfer all my mini dv footage to/from it;
>> >> > therefore no video will need to compete for space on my computer's main
>> >> > hard
>> >> > drive. I'm hoping this will alleviate the intermittant skipping problems
>> >> > I
>> >> > still get with playback after I capture video to my computer.
>> >> >
>> >> > Wondering if anyone here can definitively claim "Yes! that will work"?
>> >> > ...
>> >> > (all other factors being equal).
>> >> >
>> >> > I've already tried increasing my RAM (to a gig); shutting down all other
>> >> > programs, incl. anti virus software; (thougham not truly sure I do close
>> >> > donw
>> >> > my Norton progam completely ...)
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> >
>> >> > using: Windows XP; pentium; sony TRV-19 mini dv; firewire transfer; 30
>> >> > gigs
>> >> > free space on my [current] hard drive; 1 gig ram.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Michael
>>
>>
>>
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