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Regrettably, there were also a handful of niggles. Media Express proved far from worthy in anger, crashes would sometimes occur within seconds of initiating a capture whist at the very next attempt, things would tick over indefinitely without the merest hint of a complaint or glitch in the resultant recording.
It was also worryingly common for the capture process to spontaneously yet stealthily cease, resulting in open ended files that were neither playable or editable. This particular issue seemed exclusively linked to exiting and launching applications to and from the windows desktop, when the sudden initialization of DirectX’s overlays and fluctuations in the refresh rate (between 59 and 60hz) would cause a miniscule disruption to the signal.
In order to give this little workhorse the cleanest possible crack of the whip, I shelled out for a copy of MXlight, a third party alternative to Media Express which many claimed to be more stable and afforded a temptingly richer bit rate of 30MBps. Each benchmark was re-recorded using the highest quality settings available and the files placed alongside those encoded with Media Express. I trust all comparisons shall remain constructive!
*At the time of writing, using any drivers later than 9.6.4 and Media Express subsequent to version 3.1.2 caused corrupted frames and a gradual drift of audio and video synchronization. The sole remedy was not to update to a later driver package until the issues were fully resolved.
