Raptor Capture Card contra Firewire Input

I was happy owner of old Raptor capture card and my hobby editing was
running without any problem.
Recently I decided to burn all my work on DVDs but my mpg encoder on my
old computer 600MhH was running too slow and I bought new 2.6GHz comp
assuming that with this speed "firewire input" will be enough for
capture without Raptor Card.
Unfortunately picture is jerky due to dropouts frames.
Shall I install my old Raptor Card because speed 2.6Ghz is not enough
for firewire input and 720x576 size or something is wrong with my new
comp?
Four year ago I acquired quite knowledge about editing hardware but
unfortunately I forgot everything...(
Thanks for any advice.

Alex

 

You don't say which software application you are using. Or whether the
jerky picture is jerky in playback or capture rendered output.

There should be no problem capturing video at that size through firewire.

Your DV Raptor card may not work on a new motherboard, at least, not
without some jiggering of the CMOS settings. It may be incompatible with
the revisions of the PCI card spec, though someone else could tell you more
about that.

 

it is not your processor. I have used 350Mhz machines to capture Firewire
Dv. It is your drive throughput. Make sure you use a seperate drive for your
captures and make sure it is in DMA mode .