Please be kind, i don't know if this belongs here or should be broken into two posts.
Okay, just how important is drag to disc? As far as i can tell, i don't use it, i don't want to use it, and all it does is soak up (even small amounts of memory). Also, I really don't want to use the roxio media watch, or or anything that has anything to do with sharing files over the internet, so why is symantec telling me the videowave is attempting to connect to a dns ---after second fresh install of OS and install of antivirus software?
All this stems from the fact that files i recorded using an ati usb2.0 external capture card, and ati launchpad/ mmc software to record, MPEG2 DVD format, (as they put it NTSC (525) 29.97 fps standard),**I HAVE A FEELING PART OF MY PROBLEM STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT WHEN I RUN THEIR "PC CHECK" FEATURE, IT LISTS THE CAPTURE RATE AT 30 FPS [i'm still waiting to hear back from their support people but it has been about 3 weeks now] 720x480 resolution with deinterlacing options set to progressive source, audio is set to 48.000khz, 16 bit, stereo...Video Encoding Parameters, variable bit rate at 8mb/s with a target rate of 8mb/s, motion estimation quality is 84 of 100, Audio encoding paramaters 224 K Bit/sec. These are almost the default settings, with almost no tweaking or monkeying with the settings by me to get the above. I also am recording in 16x9 aspect....at least that is the way they look when played back in windows, cineplayer.
The resulting files play great on my computer with excellent quality, when i use roxio 8.05 updated retail version of EMC8 videowave to cut off a few seconds at the beginning and end of the clip, the audio has about a 15% chance of staying accurate to the video, and about a 5% chance of staying accurate to the dvd burn process. Even when i use files created thru roxio's use of the ati capture. Thinking it was an ATI issue i captured a dvd i made, one of 3 i was able to make successfully with 7.5 retail. Again any sort of editing resulted in audio inconsistancy. The successful burn, resulted in a dvd that seemed to have a pulse, the picture would fade in and out slightly, on both of my tvs a 50 inch sony sxrd flat panel tv and a 50 inch mitsubishi rear projection w/ 480 component input, and 6 different dvd players, 2 sony, 2 toshiba, 2 rca. (I'm just waiting to not have to worry about trying to make a dvd and just hook the pc up to the sony tv, since i can't really make a dvd with 1980x1080 resolution).
Taking into consideration that it had been over 6 months since i did a fresh install of OS, i opted to do just that, worked with MS support to make sure it was done right, and installed xp pro all the way up to jan 2006. Throwing caution into the wind i didn't install anti-virus software and opted to hunt through hard copies of the registry for any viruses, another call to MS to get help shutting off all the warnings and programs that ran in the background under these conditions...installed only the basics necessary for my cable modem, and ad-ware removal, installed EMC8 retail, opened up all the applications, ignored the prompt to upgrade, closed it, got a whole host of error messages (that flew by too fast to make any note of any, i am not able to find them anywhere on the logs) when i tried to restart computer...graph notify lasted the longest. It never asked me to insert the content cd at all. After restart I installed the 8.05 upgrade by running it right from the install-shield window. Still the videos have audio problems, i transfer the mpegs from an external hard-drive to my internal hard drive, verify the file, disconnect the external hard drive, restart computer and beginning working with the files. Through-out the process i defragment as needed and always record to int. hard drive first, then transfer to ext. so the only file in my documents are these video files. It did not seem to matter if i worked on them before transfering them back and forth, the audio is always off.
Any ideas? I know other posts cover these topics immensely, however i wanted to make sure it wasn't something specific to my system; as the fixes covered did not seem to apply to me or did not alleviate the situation, is it something with the sound card?
Dell 8400 xp pro sp 2
P4 3.20 G 533mhz 1mb cache w/ Hyperthreading Enabled (lists two processors from one thing?)
2G SDRAM 1dimm ( i think...it is just 2 chips each one 1 G)
256mb ATI Radeon X800XL pci express
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 24 bit live
160 G Serial ATA hard drive
(2) 300 G Ext Hard Drives
Sony VRD VC10 DVD-RW ext
NEC3100AD 16x DVD-RW int. (the next thing to be replaced)
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Please be kind, i don't know if this belongs here or should be broken into two posts.
Okay, just how important is drag to disc? As far as i can tell, i don't use it, i don't want to use it, and all it does is soak up (even small amounts of memory). Also, I really don't want to use the roxio media watch, or or anything that has anything to do with sharing files over the internet, so why is symantec telling me the videowave is attempting to connect to a dns ---after second fresh install of OS and install of antivirus software?
All this stems from the fact that files i recorded using an ati usb2.0 external capture card, and ati launchpad/ mmc software to record, MPEG2 DVD format, (as they put it NTSC (525) 29.97 fps standard),**I HAVE A FEELING PART OF MY PROBLEM STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT WHEN I RUN THEIR "PC CHECK" FEATURE, IT LISTS THE CAPTURE RATE AT 30 FPS [i'm still waiting to hear back from their support people but it has been about 3 weeks now] 720x480 resolution with deinterlacing options set to progressive source, audio is set to 48.000khz, 16 bit, stereo...Video Encoding Parameters, variable bit rate at 8mb/s with a target rate of 8mb/s, motion estimation quality is 84 of 100, Audio encoding paramaters 224 K Bit/sec. These are almost the default settings, with almost no tweaking or monkeying with the settings by me to get the above. I also am recording in 16x9 aspect....at least that is the way they look when played back in windows, cineplayer.
The resulting files play great on my computer with excellent quality, when i use roxio 8.05 updated retail version of EMC8 videowave to cut off a few seconds at the beginning and end of the clip, the audio has about a 15% chance of staying accurate to the video, and about a 5% chance of staying accurate to the dvd burn process. Even when i use files created thru roxio's use of the ati capture. Thinking it was an ATI issue i captured a dvd i made, one of 3 i was able to make successfully with 7.5 retail. Again any sort of editing resulted in audio inconsistancy. The successful burn, resulted in a dvd that seemed to have a pulse, the picture would fade in and out slightly, on both of my tvs a 50 inch sony sxrd flat panel tv and a 50 inch mitsubishi rear projection w/ 480 component input, and 6 different dvd players, 2 sony, 2 toshiba, 2 rca. (I'm just waiting to not have to worry about trying to make a dvd and just hook the pc up to the sony tv, since i can't really make a dvd with 1980x1080 resolution).
Taking into consideration that it had been over 6 months since i did a fresh install of OS, i opted to do just that, worked with MS support to make sure it was done right, and installed xp pro all the way up to jan 2006. Throwing caution into the wind i didn't install anti-virus software and opted to hunt through hard copies of the registry for any viruses, another call to MS to get help shutting off all the warnings and programs that ran in the background under these conditions...installed only the basics necessary for my cable modem, and ad-ware removal, installed EMC8 retail, opened up all the applications, ignored the prompt to upgrade, closed it, got a whole host of error messages (that flew by too fast to make any note of any, i am not able to find them anywhere on the logs) when i tried to restart computer...graph notify lasted the longest. It never asked me to insert the content cd at all. After restart I installed the 8.05 upgrade by running it right from the install-shield window. Still the videos have audio problems, i transfer the mpegs from an external hard-drive to my internal hard drive, verify the file, disconnect the external hard drive, restart computer and beginning working with the files. Through-out the process i defragment as needed and always record to int. hard drive first, then transfer to ext. so the only file in my documents are these video files. It did not seem to matter if i worked on them before transfering them back and forth, the audio is always off.
Any ideas? I know other posts cover these topics immensely, however i wanted to make sure it wasn't something specific to my system; as the fixes covered did not seem to apply to me or did not alleviate the situation, is it something with the sound card?
Dell 8400 xp pro sp 2
P4 3.20 G 533mhz 1mb cache w/ Hyperthreading Enabled (lists two processors from one thing?)
2G SDRAM 1dimm ( i think...it is just 2 chips each one 1 G)
256mb ATI Radeon X800XL pci express
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 24 bit live
160 G Serial ATA hard drive
(2) 300 G Ext Hard Drives
Sony VRD VC10 DVD-RW ext
NEC3100AD 16x DVD-RW int. (the next thing to be replaced)
DirectX 9.0c
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