Roger (roger.maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxx): > > No, that's not the problem. If you are recording at 100x100 you are > > recording 10,000 pixels, no more. <-- you mis-interpretted here. even > recording at resolutions of ~100x~100, i get dropped framerates. I don't know how xawtv 'compresses' its frames, but having more noise in the image shouldn't affect its realtime compression that much. If the tape or VCR is really messed up, I could see the bttv card not being able to keep in sync with it. Regardless, no recorder should drop any frames if you're only recording at 100x100 resolution. You're looking at 30k per frame uncompressed. This is clearly a problem with your capture card and VCR not playing nice together. -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx