I'm revisiting this issue because after several months of trouble free operation, I was once again treated to the following error message:

"An error occurred during playback. Unable to mix audio. The operation timed out".

I had successfully captured and edited multiple capture clips, and experienced no problems. I then rendered and printed my project to tape. After viewing the tape, I decided that I really didn't like a couple of things I had done, and I reopened the project to make some modifications.

All of a sudden, I couldn't preview for more than twenty seconds without seeing the system hang, and then display the infamous error message. I was astonished. I couldn't imagine what had changed. I tried re-booting, I tried closing off every little thing I could find, I tried defragging; nothing helped.

Finally, out of frustration, I simply erased my rendered .AVI file (which I didn't like anyway), and dicovered, much to my amazement, that the problem was gone.

Can anyone out there think of a reason why the presence of a finished movie would prevent SF from correctly working with the original source material?

kcarroll

Are you short of disk space somewhere?

Cheers

Ian G.

No...., the drive I use for capture and work in progress is still 2/3 empty. (24 GIG used out of 80.)

kcarroll

kcarroll (and others),

I am a new VideoFactory 2.0 user. Last night I had my first editing session. And unfortunatly, within minutes I hit the error described in this email thread. Many times. Eventually the application crashed. After that it seemed a bit better; I got the error but less frequently, and didn't have a second crash.

My configuration:
Dell Latitude C600, 256MB Memory, 750 Mhz, Windows 2000
2 Cardbus Firewire cards: A NEC based one I use for connection to camcorder, and a TI based one I use for connection to Maxtor DV3000 80GB (7200) Firewire drive
Windows 2000

I have also reported this to SF customer support (via email).

Firstly, I captured video without any problem (to my Maxtor drive).

While editing (playing in the preview window a previously captured DV file) I repeatedly have the system freeze up, then get the error

"An error occurred while starting playback. Unable to mix audio. The operation timed out".

I had not done anything special with the audio track - all I was doing was viewing the video, and using the split function to trim the video on the timeline.

I did a search in this forum for the keywords in this error and found this thread.

Now, from reading the thread, what I seem to have in common with kcarroll is we are both using a laptop and an external (Maxtor) drive. I've read through the suggestions. I don't believe I have a bad audio track; I don't have any other applications running trying to use the soundcard. I did configure VF to have my project files on the same external drive as the capture files; someone suggested it would be better to store the project files on the C: drive, I can try this. kcarroll, did this help you?

I previously used the hated Video Wave 4.0, but never had any problems like this with it. In fact, it worked pretty well - I was just looking for something which I thought would be better. But it looks like a minefield for users of external firewire drives.

Mark B