mm2 too slow and freezes

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I've been trying to capture videos from vhs using mm2.1 My capture device is
video advantage pci. I have a 3G p4 processor with 1.5 G of RAM, ATI Radeon
9800 AGP card and an 80 gig hd. I don't have any other programs loaded. When
I start the capture wizard and start capturing ther's a lag between clicking
the start button and actual capturing. Then during capture video becomes
choppy. Then when finishing the capture it seem to not respond. I tried
scaling back the hardware acceleraton to 3, but doesn't help. What could be
the problem?
 
If your video source is a digital camcorder, then you should be able to use
the device as if it was a firewire connection...

If it's other than that, or you're using a USB connection with a digital
camcorder, the device is encoding to a file that you then need to import...
but direct capture by Movie Maker might not work.

I'm looking at online info for the device and don't have any experience with
it.... if it does work for analog capture in MM2, I'd like to add it as a
reference on my website.

The online info says that capturing to AVI is using hardware encoding... so
it's not copying the Digital Video file from a digital camcorder.
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I should have told you that I was using the composite inputs of the front
panel bay
panel. I was trying to transfer vhs tapes. Today I tried importing video
from a disc of other videos I transferred. MM2 broke down a 1 gig avi file
into very small clips.
This too took a long time. The video file was about 5 mins long. Could there
be a different issue here?
 
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