I had a 'mild' panic attack when I got home tonight. First, my configuration:
System: Windows XP Pro (no SP's loaded), 512MB RAM, 1GHz P3, 2 HD's with the second used only for video. The second disk is a 160GB WD. In spite of XP's 139GB limit I managed to get access to almost all of it, I assume from an overlay installed via the WD S/W that came with the drive. One partition is 10GB, the second 139GB.
S/W: MovieStudio (from what I can tell the same thing as VF 2.0c), TMPGEnc full (for MPEG2 render), Frameserver pluginpac from Satish (debugmode.com), and, for what it's worth, the popular 'Marine Aquarium' screensaver.
Last night I kicked off an MPEG2 render of a 13GB AVI that I captured with no problems via MovieStudio. Everything appeared to be working great. The Frameserver was dishing up frames to TMPGEnc and all looked good. TMPGEnc predicted a run time of around 13 hours so I turned off my monitor and called it quits. Tonight when I came home to inspect the results, I almost had a heart attack.
I don't know if it was the Frameserver, MovieStudio, TMPGEnc, my screen saver coming on during the middle of a render, or a combination of all of the above, but my system quit responding. The screensaver appeared to be running fine, but when I tried to exit the processes they wouldn't close. Finally everything stopped responding, so the only thing I could do (other than a powercycle) was a hard reset. After I reset the system, it attempted to reboot and couldn't find either of my hard disks! Hitting F2 on bootup showed both disks as being unrecognized and the 'Boot Sequence' option showed only the floppy drive as being resident. A power cycle solved the problem and a subsequent reboot worked fine, but I can tell you I'm about as nervous as a pregnant nun right now.
After the reboot I inspected the MPEG2 files TMPGEnc was creating and everything seemed to have quit at a little over 13 minutes into the process, although the 13+ minutes of video appeared to be ok. (My screensaver is set to kick in at 10 minutes).
The last time something like this happened (although not nearly this seriously) was when I tried to write an uncompressed AVI file out of ArcSoft Showbiz (68 GB were produced before it quit), and I was forced to reformat my video HD.
Any ideas? I'm really, really nervous about trying this little experiment again. At the risk of stating the obvious, I just backed up all of my data to DVD.
Thanks in advance.
Bruce
System: Windows XP Pro (no SP's loaded), 512MB RAM, 1GHz P3, 2 HD's with the second used only for video. The second disk is a 160GB WD. In spite of XP's 139GB limit I managed to get access to almost all of it, I assume from an overlay installed via the WD S/W that came with the drive. One partition is 10GB, the second 139GB.
S/W: MovieStudio (from what I can tell the same thing as VF 2.0c), TMPGEnc full (for MPEG2 render), Frameserver pluginpac from Satish (debugmode.com), and, for what it's worth, the popular 'Marine Aquarium' screensaver.
Last night I kicked off an MPEG2 render of a 13GB AVI that I captured with no problems via MovieStudio. Everything appeared to be working great. The Frameserver was dishing up frames to TMPGEnc and all looked good. TMPGEnc predicted a run time of around 13 hours so I turned off my monitor and called it quits. Tonight when I came home to inspect the results, I almost had a heart attack.
I don't know if it was the Frameserver, MovieStudio, TMPGEnc, my screen saver coming on during the middle of a render, or a combination of all of the above, but my system quit responding. The screensaver appeared to be running fine, but when I tried to exit the processes they wouldn't close. Finally everything stopped responding, so the only thing I could do (other than a powercycle) was a hard reset. After I reset the system, it attempted to reboot and couldn't find either of my hard disks! Hitting F2 on bootup showed both disks as being unrecognized and the 'Boot Sequence' option showed only the floppy drive as being resident. A power cycle solved the problem and a subsequent reboot worked fine, but I can tell you I'm about as nervous as a pregnant nun right now.
After the reboot I inspected the MPEG2 files TMPGEnc was creating and everything seemed to have quit at a little over 13 minutes into the process, although the 13+ minutes of video appeared to be ok. (My screensaver is set to kick in at 10 minutes).
The last time something like this happened (although not nearly this seriously) was when I tried to write an uncompressed AVI file out of ArcSoft Showbiz (68 GB were produced before it quit), and I was forced to reformat my video HD.
Any ideas? I'm really, really nervous about trying this little experiment again. At the risk of stating the obvious, I just backed up all of my data to DVD.
Thanks in advance.
Bruce