Just made a first attempt to transfer a VHS movie to the computer. Setting: highest quality. Six minutes after the start of the recording, a message comes up: "...your computer is overloaded...". Impossible - my Toshiba laptop is brand new!!! The VHS is a fairly "new" Sony and the VHS-movie of good quality.
No other programs or applications were activated on the computer.
Who has an idea of why this happens? Grateful for any hints from all over the world!
Hi
More information would be useful - such as version of Video Easy and the settings you are using to capture with.
Try reducing the quality setting and record again.
Assuming you are using the USB interface:
Then it is probable that the computer is overloaded by too high a data rate and cannot process the data fast enough. This is a limitation of USB data transfer rates, so check that the device is USB2 and not running at USB1 speeds.
Ensure that you have no other USB devices which are also active transferring data eg trying to save the imported data to external hard drive. USB keyboard and mouse should be OK.
HTH
John
Hi Selma
I assume you are capturing the analogue VHS video through a TV capture device and your computer is struggling to convert the file the device is creating to MPEG2 (DVD) files, in real time. You will probably find the file it created has dropped frames before it "overloaded". Most new laptops still do not have the processing power of a desktop for this type of work.
The solution as John suggested is to try lowering the quality or use a different codec for the capture that is less compressed (CPU intensive) - say AVI or MXV - instead of MPEG. I am not familiar with Video easy but there should be a dropdown list in the capture dialogue that will allow you to change this.
Best of luck.
Stealer
Hi John and Stealer!
Very happy to read your answers, extremely appreciated!
I use v 2.0 which is designed for XP and Vista. My laptop is equipped with Win 7, but the installation of the program worked nicely and it records properly up to the moment the overload warning shows. Both picture and audio works during the recording process. So far so good.
Have tried to reduce the quality settinsg without success. In particular, I tried to reduce the video bitrate (substantially) which has not helped. Will try to use the avi and mxv formats instead of mpeg-2 (which is the default setting).
Thanks guys - I will "report back" on any progress (or absence of...) !