Hi there,
Creation of a swap file greater than 1.5 times the size of available RAM
goes against the advice given by Microsoft. In addition, making a swap file
of say 13GB (one hour of DV-AVI) puts a tremendous strain on the index
system that looks after the swap file and as a swap file cannot be
defragmented it will end up spread across the hard drive. That alone will
increase the burden on the CPU and be completely counter productive. In
addition if the video is 13GB in size, you now need 26GB of space plus the
overheads needed by the program.
As the problem includes saving to the hard drive I would imagine that
this is a DLL or codec problem, OR, the file's index has in some way become
corrupted....a small Integer value > 32767 will appear to the CPU as a
negative number...that would make time appear to run backwards (I.T. 101) I
am not saying that small integers are used, I am just using that as an
example the same would occur for any number that exceeds its maximum value
(Upper Bound).
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk