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  • MediaStudio Gives GP errors

    I've been capturing video with my rr-G, then editing them in MStudio PRO, the version that came bundled.

    After I insert my video clips (large, like 250+ megabytes), and scroll around for a bit, I get a general protection fault or some sort of error from the OS, then the software shuts down.

    Anyone seen this?

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    Win98SE, DX 4.06.03
    Celeron 400(500 oc'd)
    Asus P3B-F 1.01A, Bios 1004
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    System: P4 2.4, 512k 533FSB, Giga-Byte GA-8PE667 Ultra, 1024MB Corsair XMS PC333, Maxtor D740x 60GB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, PCPower&Cooling Silencer 400.

    Capture Drives (for now): IBM 36LZX 9.1, Quantum Atlas 10KII 9.1 on Adaptec 29160

  • #2
    You didn't say how large your drives are, especially the freespace on the boot drive.

    MSPro, like most editors, requires a lot of free physical RAM on your system. You have 256 megs, but even that isn't enough unless your system is set up properly. This can cause lockups, crashes or even out of memory errors on systems with gobs of RAM.

    What happens?

    1. When Win9x starts up it allocates most of your free physical RAM for disk caches in the form of a module named VCACHE. This module is also very reluctant to give back this memory to programs.

    Fix it by getting CACHEMAN from one of the download sites and setting both the caches min and max value of 8192. Reboot and your large programs will run much better.

    This also prevents some capture and playback problems.

    2. MSPro will sometimes crash if it's temp files are on the boot disk and it runs low (as in less than a gig). Fix this by creating a TEMP directory on your video drive and putting this in your autoexec.bat:

    SET TEMP=X:\TEMP
    SET TMP=X:\TEMP

    where X:\ is your video drive.

    3. In MSPros Preferences you can also select where it stores its preview files. Set this to the same directory as in #2.

    Dr. Mordrid




    [This message has been edited by DrMordrid (edited 10 January 2000).]

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    • #3
      Thanks for the info.

      I'll try these things.

      Also, I noticed that there is a 5.2 patch for Pro VE. I'll get this.
      System: P4 2.4, 512k 533FSB, Giga-Byte GA-8PE667 Ultra, 1024MB Corsair XMS PC333, Maxtor D740x 60GB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, PCPower&Cooling Silencer 400.

      Capture Drives (for now): IBM 36LZX 9.1, Quantum Atlas 10KII 9.1 on Adaptec 29160

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      • #4
        I have the same problem in both Ulead and
        Adobe Premier 5.0
        I tryed to upgrade to Ulead 5.2 and also
        DirectX, Mediaplayer,Scsi Bios, Mainboard Bios and the latest Matrox Drivers.
        Nothing seems to help....
        The message from windows is always the same:
        A fatal exception OE has occured at 0177:BFF9DFFF
        This happens on two differnet machines.

        My system:
        PIII-450
        Asus P2B-F Mainboard
        192MB Ram
        G400 32MB Dual
        RRG Card
        And plenty of IBM UW Scsi Drives

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        Kristian
        Kristian

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        • #5
          Wasn't there something a while back about RRIcm.dll crashing where dropped frames occured, and this causing crashes in the editors?

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          • #6
            The use of the scratch pad was most likely to be the cause of those problems a while back. It occured to me that when I used the scratchpad, I had numerous of these "abnormal progam terminations". Leaving the pad for what it is, has been a solution.

            Marijn

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            • #7
              I have finaly figgured this problem out.
              Every video file I have captured have problems with the culours,and then goes over
              to black and white.
              That causes the software to crash, no matter
              what software you are using.
              I then tryed to edit some old videofiles
              captured with the old rr card with mystique.
              Then all of my software, Adobe and Ulead etc. works fine.
              Then I tryed to record some new files, in
              different quality and everyone has the fault
              with the colours after a while.
              Some of the files came out good I thought,
              but they have another problem. After about
              10-20 sec. they become in very bad quality
              like you had encoded them with a very poor
              Avi to mpeg encoder in max speed.

              It seems to me like Matrox this time have
              made an codec that doesnt work at all,
              no mather what.
              I think that the only sollution to this is
              to buy some other hardware, matrox can not
              fix this since they dont reply on many of the
              Emails I have sendt them.

              RRICM.DLL Sucks

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              Kristian
              Kristian

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              • #8
                If I understand samantha correctly, I've seen this problem. When I import the clip into MStudio Pro, The clip looks fine for a bunch of frames on the timeline, then there is a frame that looks garbled, then they are black and white from there.

                It was this clip that was causing me to crash.

                Note:
                The clip when played in MPlayer 6.4 or PCVCR plays fine, it is only the ulead software that seems to have the problem.
                System: P4 2.4, 512k 533FSB, Giga-Byte GA-8PE667 Ultra, 1024MB Corsair XMS PC333, Maxtor D740x 60GB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, PCPower&Cooling Silencer 400.

                Capture Drives (for now): IBM 36LZX 9.1, Quantum Atlas 10KII 9.1 on Adaptec 29160

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                • #9
                  OK!

                  Here is the sollution to the problem.

                  I found a new M-JPEG Codec from Morgan Multimedia.

                  It is a little expencive, cost 25$ but you
                  can download it and use it for 10 days or so, before you buy it.
                  It comes even with instructions on how to install it with Matrox G Runner...Cool.

                  http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/

                  Try this and all yor problems is gone...
                  Read the instalation procedure since you have to turn of the old codec in the system.ini and you donĀ“t want to do anything wrong there.



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                  Kristian
                  Kristian

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