Windows 7 Question

[orbmanBYEOS]

I have BYEOS Premium running on my Windows 10 laptop. This laptop has less than 100GB free memory and a 256GB mini-SD card. When I am doing planetary video captures, I run out of memory very quickly, and writing the AVI files to the mini-SD card is only 1/2 the frames per second.

I remembered that I have an old Windows 7 laptop with 400GB free memory, and have two questions?

1. Does BYEOS run on Windows 7?

2. If so, is there a way to load BYEOS on my Windows 7 laptop using the same license keys to see how it works on this laptop without messing with my Windows 10 laptop?

[admin]

Win 7 is no longer supported. It may work, but I no longer support it.

Your post is confusing. Are you running out of memory (as in RAM) or are you running out of disk space?

This said, why save your planetary recordings as AVI? Save them as individual JPG and feed them into your planetary stacking software instead of the AVI.

There is no quality loss saving planetary in AVI or JPG, there are 100% the same quality in BYE/BYN.

Regards,

[astroman133]

You could replace the undersized SD card with a 1 TB card for about $10.

[orbmanBYEOS]

13 hours ago, admin said:

Your post is confusing. Are you running out of memory (as in RAM) or are you running out of disk space?

This said, why save your planetary recordings as AVI? Save them as individual JPG and feed them into your planetary stacking software instead of the AVI.

There is no quality loss saving planetary in AVI or JPG, there are 100% the same quality in BYE/BYN.

I am running out of disk space, and the default(?) is to save the files as both AVI and JPG, so I can try saving them only as JPG on my Windows 10 laptop. This became a real issue when I tried imaging three planets in one night, and had to copy the files to an external drive and then delete them from the laptop drive before imaging the next planet.

Also, when BYEOS saves the files to the mini-SD card, the frames per second is only 1/2 as fast as saving the files to the internal hard drive.

I was saving both AVI and JPG after watching the on-line tutorial suggesting that the JPG files were a safety backup in case an AVI file failed to create, and that has happened a couple of times (probably from running out of disk space).

Thank you.

 

[admin]

Write to disk is the bottleneck, so yes, writing to a slow(er) disk or sdcard will drastically impact the frame rate. This is a physical limitation.

[astroman133]

It really sounds like you need to purchase a faster, larger micro SD card.