Trouble Playing Large MPG Files

[Henry]

When I try playing large MPG files - an hour (like 3-4 Gig), the first half hour
or so is ok, but after that, I can't FF or RW - it's pause, play or stop.

It happens with the ATI player, PowerDVD, etc.

Is this normal?? I had 512M of RAM in a Dell 8300, and AIW 9600 Pro.

Henry

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[Laurence Wilmer]

When I try playing large MPG files - an hour (like 3-4 Gig), the first half hour
or so is ok, but after that, I can't FF or RW - it's pause, play or stop.

It happens with the ATI player, PowerDVD, etc.

Is this normal?? I had 512M of RAM in a Dell 8300, and AIW 9600 Pro.

Henry

Don't know if it is normal, but I have exactly the same problem on very
large files.
Very seldom needed so I don't worry about - or break very long programmes in
the middle while recording.
I assumed it was an OS problem. W98SE - I don't think you said yours?

Laurence

 

[sheer]

For playing a file of this size I have 1Gb of ram and it leaves about 278
free so it could be ram, but I will be interested to see what someone else
says. BTW I am recording digital TV and playing using PowerDVD.

 

[Asestar]

Have you tried using MediaPlayerClassic? It handels most mpeg formats with
own filters, so might be stable.

 

[Henry]

Don't know if it is normal, but I have exactly the same problem on very
large files.
Very seldom needed so I don't worry about - or break very long programmes in
the middle while recording.
I assumed it was an OS problem. W98SE - I don't think you said yours?

I'm running XP Pro.

Henry

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[Henry]

For playing a file of this size I have 1Gb of ram and it leaves about 278
free so it could be ram, but I will be interested to see what someone else
says. BTW I am recording digital TV and playing using PowerDVD.

I was toying with adding 1 G to get to 1.5, but that was before I started
working with videos.

What's interesting is that I thought Windows was supposed to take care of
swapping to disk... maybe PowerDVD and ATI Player don't make efficient use of
this.

When I get past about a half hour, I can't even back up 2 minutes!!

Henry

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[Henry]

Have you tried using MediaPlayerClassic? It handels most mpeg formats with
own filters, so might be stable.

On your suggestion, I did just that:

Media Player 9 lets me move around within a 90 minute recording (almost 5
Gig)... now if I could only skip back and forth, or go frame by frame, as
opposed to dragging the position marker.

Henry

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