Virtualdub is probably your better solution. if true then theirs may not be efficient for most computers or laptops. thats the only thing i can think of thats causing your problem.
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It sounds to me like your pinnacle software is capturing in realtime to some codec, probably xvid or a propriatory internal codec of their own. Dazzle products don't get many recommendations on this website. For every reviewer that thinks the Dazzle is a great product, there is another who can't get it working properly. Personally, I think you may have made made an unwise purchase. The description for the new version says nothing about hardware encoding, so it probably uses software encoding only. The new version is shaped more or less like a comma and comes in black, red, white or silver. Its description says it does MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 hardware encoding. The old version is black and roughly rectangular in shape. While Googling for more info on hardware requirements I found there were two versions of the DVC 100. I'm not sure now that the Dazzle product you bought is capable of hardware encoding. Most are male-to-male, but depending on how you have connected everything, you might need female RCA to male 3.5mm mini jack adapter like this instead: You will need an RCA stereo to 3.5mm mini jack adapter cable to use the microphone jack. If the first Audio Line menu selection doesn't work. File->Capture AVI->Audio->Audio Source allows you to select an Audio Line for the microphone. Select "0 Capture Device" at the bottom of the Audio menu. This will most likely work, although it is possible you will loose audio-video sync during recording. If you can't get Virtualdub to use the Dazzle's audio as a source, you could try connecting audio from the game system to your laptop's microphone jack instead of the Dazzle's audio input. If you are using the boot drive for capture, and the OS is trying to write, that could cause dropped frames too. Your HDD may have trouble keeping up and drop frames if it isn't defragged since Huffyuv compression creates very large files, about 30 GB per hour. If you are successful, you can encode the capture later as you wish. It is very fast, and your CPU should have no trouble keeping up. There should be an option at the bottom of the Audio menu that looks like it belongs to the Dazzle. File->Capture AVI->Audio->Enable Audio Capture enables recording. If you want to give Virtualdub another shot, you have to select the audio source for recording as well as enable audio recording.
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I did manage to crash Windows 7 by clicking the wrong button while looking for them, which makes me think this program is not a good one to use for Windows 7. I found no options that allow selecting an audio source.
UPDATE: I am able to cap in 720x480 in Stoik, but it doesn't have audio, any help here? I downloaded STOIK Capturer last night, and only found settings that determine the audio characteristics used for the recorded output.