Okay this is the second post. Sonic foundry we would appreciate a response in this. I am playing an avi file off ma firewire, and right now things aren't very hot, but cold
then it says "unable to mix audio"
can anyone please help i'm not buying another fireiwre drive.
I also found out that when I remove just the AUDIO stream, the problem completely goes away. I can watch 3 minutes of smooth 29.97-frame video. When I put the audio back, boom, after couple of seconds, playback freezes, then after 10 seconds of inactivity, it says "Unable to Mix Audio."
I have noticed a similar problem when I started using a FW drive. I only noticed that trying to play long DV clips from the timeline, the playback would sometimes freeze after about 30-40 seconds and after pausing for a while (10-15sec) it would start playing again. I did not try pulling out the audio portion or any other tricks. I haven't done much editing since, so I'm not sure if the problem is still there or not. Personally, I think it may have something to do with the IEEE1394 bridge as I have a lot of other problems working with the drive (hot swapping).
I thought my problem was fixed by the way I connected the 1394 drive, but on occasion, I am still getting these familiar freezes asafb and I are talking about. I have not tried removing the audio files as I cant since I am marking pretty much according to what my subjects are talking about. I have yet to defrag the HD, I may do that right now as long as my data doesnt get lost in some freak accident after the defrag. lol.