For those of you who want to disable autoloading of the taskbar app, you might try renaming it, like change name to "tray.exe" or ________. Might cause an error but worth a try.
Why would anyone want to capture in uncompressed format? I can understand something lossless like huffyuv but considering lossless formats, is it common to have a computer with extremely fast HDD(s) but wimpy CPU that can't crunch down the size while capturing and/or smoothly editing?
As others have eluded to, if you're capturing to a lossy compressed format and want smaller filesizes you need increase the compression, by setting a lower bitrate, which could dramatically lower the quality if lowered too much.
A tip: Capture to a dedicated drive, not the OS drive. Edit/recompress from that capture drive, to a second drive, hopefully also not the OS drive... so in other words, for optimal performance (ignoring RAID) you may benefit from 3 HDD in the system, and if you're stuck with only two IDE channels should put the OS drive on different channel than capture drive.
Has anyone had an issue where they set the audio codec to MP3 but when pressing record the program displays a windows something like "codec not initialized", waiting till after you click "OK" to start the capture, then it captures uncompressed audio? I can stop and reselect the MP3 codec and THEN record with it, but it won't remember that choice (but does remember the video codec choice) ?
Also, does anyone have a link to specs, partslist for a good bandpass filter for analog cable? The cable run to the computer has the original filter removed (cable installer removed and kept it) as it prevented the cable modem from working, and now much noise seems to be getting though, overly grainy pic and diagonal, subtle lines. I wonder if having a 'puter case with a large window in it is letting a lot of RF out, causing any of this.
I figure 55Mhz to 555MHz bandpass filter ought to cover my needs and will be looking around but wondered if anyone knew of a site that had specs... don't even know that I need it bandpass, I suspect a high-pass filter would probably get rid of most if not all noise.
For those of you having av sync problems getting progressively worse towards the end of the capture, what you need to do is manually edit the framerate... experimentation may be needed but in the past (not with this card but other capture cards) that was all i needed do. However IIRC earlier versions of VirtualDub had a bug so try later versions, and I dont know if dropped frame would be another relevant issue, if it's occuring.