Under Linux:  Mounted the iso on a loopback device, and used MPlayer to play back the disc image.

''Need''  -  No?

From the first post in this thread: Although for home use, there would probably not a problem, but as soon as it goes out the door with a video, especially commercial efforts I would think there would be problems. Sometimes, not good to open Pandora's box, but am seriously beginning work in the video creation area for private folks that I do ...

Good -- A 1:4 : 1 ratio sounds closer to ''real'' to me than 12.5 : 1 did. I do find it ''interesting'' that Badaboom (which exists simply to show off how awesome CUDA is) is showing a  5.6 : 1 increase in throughput -- it's almost like they hobbled (or intentionally didn't optimize) the CPU rendering to make the GPU rendering look ...

Do you run with background rendering enabled?  If so, have you waited for background rendering to complete (all of the ''green'' above the timeline to go away)? If you do a ''File/Delete Auxiliary Files'' for the current project, and wait for background rendering to finish, do things settle down? What some folks tend to do on machines that ...

Estimated time to complete stabilization and video noise reduction is 3 hours and 28 minutes with CUDA enabled on GTX 260.  This same video clip would take 44 hours to render for noise reduction (no deshake filter) on adobe after effects CS4. (emphasis mine) That makes me wonder:  On your system, what is the time to complete ...

This link has some interesting things for thinking in it.  Evidently there *is* a technical difference between playing back a CD, and synchronizing a CD audio clip with video.  Not that it'd make any real difference...

OK, your sample version used PCM audio, right?  Well, that's what the IFO indicates is being used, so that should work.  No repeat of the ''old bad IFO issue''.  That's a relief. Should this be a Deutsch disk?  Seems that it is one, at least, according to the IFO information.   Interesting...on my system, I do get sound ...

Oh....OK. Yes, capturing in DV AVI is the highest-quality, least-CPU-intensive option when capturing from those capture devices.    The upside:  Since you have a ''2'' model, it should work in S12 as well.

You should probably capture in (what's the wording?)  ''Full-Quality DV AVI'' when using that capture box.  If you do, does it help?  (That's the least processor-intensive, highest-quality capture option, supposedly.)