Hi all,
I'm back with yet another question, after finishing the score and re-editing the 50-minute country store documentary video to include it. (OT, but anyone who wants to hear to major cuts can find them at http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/cat-large.html and move toward the bottom of the page for the music to "Stores".)
A full rendering has been impossible. Without the music, I could get through a render without crashing, but with the music track, I've had to do 50 one-minute sections and paste them together with TMPGEnc. (It doesn't matter whether I render to MPEG2 or AVI or anything else; and it isn't heat, as the CPU is just re-sinked with fresh paste, and has a temp of about 45-50C worst case while working.)
So, that pasted-up version works acceptably to get a finished copy. But now I'm trying to make a few dozen copies onto VHS.
I just can't get through it most of the time. At some point, playback will loop at a rate of about 4 per second, sometimes briefly (two to eight loops before resuming playback), and other times it will go into a permanent loop and crash to black screen with the audio continuing to loop forever until I punch the reset button.
There just seem to be too many variables for me with my lack of experience with video on the computer. I've tried playing on WMP 6.4 and 7.0 with the same results of loops and crashes (but in different places on different passes).
My system is a no-longer-overclocked :) Athlon running a 1.3 GHz and an IWill KK266 with latest BIOS, 512MB memory, two HD (40G and 60G, the second for the video stuff only), Matrox 450 dual-head, WinTV capture card, two Waveterminal 2496 sound cards, onboard C-Media sound, and Linksys network card. I'm running Win98SE with all updates, DirectX 8.1, and the latest VideoFactory. When playing back video, all background tasks are turned off.
I have the Matrox set up so I can zoom into the WMP rectangle and output the second head to VHS. (I *know* using the Matrox to VHS is a crude setup, but there's just no budget for this.)
I hope this is enough info to start on these questions:
1. Is there a player that won't loopoopoopoop or crash?
2. What sort of problem could this be?
3. Any recommendations at all, aside from drinking a whole lot and giving up?
Many thanks,
Dennis
I'm back with yet another question, after finishing the score and re-editing the 50-minute country store documentary video to include it. (OT, but anyone who wants to hear to major cuts can find them at http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/cat-large.html and move toward the bottom of the page for the music to "Stores".)
A full rendering has been impossible. Without the music, I could get through a render without crashing, but with the music track, I've had to do 50 one-minute sections and paste them together with TMPGEnc. (It doesn't matter whether I render to MPEG2 or AVI or anything else; and it isn't heat, as the CPU is just re-sinked with fresh paste, and has a temp of about 45-50C worst case while working.)
So, that pasted-up version works acceptably to get a finished copy. But now I'm trying to make a few dozen copies onto VHS.
I just can't get through it most of the time. At some point, playback will loop at a rate of about 4 per second, sometimes briefly (two to eight loops before resuming playback), and other times it will go into a permanent loop and crash to black screen with the audio continuing to loop forever until I punch the reset button.
There just seem to be too many variables for me with my lack of experience with video on the computer. I've tried playing on WMP 6.4 and 7.0 with the same results of loops and crashes (but in different places on different passes).
My system is a no-longer-overclocked :) Athlon running a 1.3 GHz and an IWill KK266 with latest BIOS, 512MB memory, two HD (40G and 60G, the second for the video stuff only), Matrox 450 dual-head, WinTV capture card, two Waveterminal 2496 sound cards, onboard C-Media sound, and Linksys network card. I'm running Win98SE with all updates, DirectX 8.1, and the latest VideoFactory. When playing back video, all background tasks are turned off.
I have the Matrox set up so I can zoom into the WMP rectangle and output the second head to VHS. (I *know* using the Matrox to VHS is a crude setup, but there's just no budget for this.)
I hope this is enough info to start on these questions:
1. Is there a player that won't loopoopoopoop or crash?
2. What sort of problem could this be?
3. Any recommendations at all, aside from drinking a whole lot and giving up?
Many thanks,
Dennis