This is driving me nuts. I have three PCI cards for encoding video, and none of the have ever, ever worked right for me.
Currently I have a VCR on loan and have needed to encode a few tapes, so I have been trying to do this over the past day. I am using a Wired MediaPress card which is part of my Astarte DVDirector Pro package (the ancestor to Apple's DVD Studio Pro). What kills me is that no matter how I set up my system, it stops recording on me at an *exact* time, it's so exact that it seems like it should be trouble-shootable, but I have run out of ideas for the moment. This is on a MDD 1.42 GHz box with maximum RAM running Mac OS 9.2.2. I have done a few performance tweaks - switched the energy saver settings off, virtual memory off. The MediaPress manual recommended setting the disk cache down to 1024, which I did. I am using the fast ATA bus to record to a separate, non-system drive.
What happens is that every time the encoding stops once the file reaches 730.1 MB. I tried recording to a different drive and this also stops at the same size. And the program, MediaPress 2.3.1 supposedly has large file support for files of more than 2 GB. I have tried doubling the RAM of the MediaPress application... there is nothing else going on with my computer regarding disk activity. WHY 730.1 MB? There doesn't seem to be anything I can do, I am stumped.
Currently I have a VCR on loan and have needed to encode a few tapes, so I have been trying to do this over the past day. I am using a Wired MediaPress card which is part of my Astarte DVDirector Pro package (the ancestor to Apple's DVD Studio Pro). What kills me is that no matter how I set up my system, it stops recording on me at an *exact* time, it's so exact that it seems like it should be trouble-shootable, but I have run out of ideas for the moment. This is on a MDD 1.42 GHz box with maximum RAM running Mac OS 9.2.2. I have done a few performance tweaks - switched the energy saver settings off, virtual memory off. The MediaPress manual recommended setting the disk cache down to 1024, which I did. I am using the fast ATA bus to record to a separate, non-system drive.
What happens is that every time the encoding stops once the file reaches 730.1 MB. I tried recording to a different drive and this also stops at the same size. And the program, MediaPress 2.3.1 supposedly has large file support for files of more than 2 GB. I have tried doubling the RAM of the MediaPress application... there is nothing else going on with my computer regarding disk activity. WHY 730.1 MB? There doesn't seem to be anything I can do, I am stumped.