Low Memory Error DVD Maker and Media Player

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When I try to create a DVD with Windows DVD Maker I get a and error saying
Ran Out Of Memory and the program stops the creation process.
Similary when I try to play a TV program recorded with Media Centre through
Media Player I get a low memory error and the video won't play.
This, however, has only just started to happened. I used to be able to do
both with no problem.
I'm running a 3.4Ghz Intel Viiv Dual Processor, 2GB RAM and have 150GB free
of my hard drive... Any help?
 
Well, I can't help but you are not alone. I just started getting errors as
well and have read a usenet post that indicated the same. I'm hoping one of
the updates has a bug that will be fixed by Microsoft.
 
Least I'm not alone and indicates it is a problem with Vista and not, as I
was dreading, something gone wrong inside my machine!
 
The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 8/31 in Vista Beta 2.
Using RC1 is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista release
would not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
 
I have Vista RC1, and get the following errors:

- low memory trying to play a DVD in Media Player
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to play a DVD
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to watch TV from a Hauppauge
WinPVR-150 (I think it sends the video to the PC in MPEG)

Can you tell me if the MPEG-2 codecs for RC1 are expired now? If that is
so, can you tell me how I can get an unexpired codec? I believe I have some
codec's with software for that PC, but it is XP based, and I don't know if it
is compatible with Vista.


Naveen Thumpudi said:
The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 8/31 in Vista Beta 2.
Using RC1 is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista release
would not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
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Dan said:
Least I'm not alone and indicates it is a problem with Vista and not, as I
was dreading, something gone wrong inside my machine!
Click to expand...
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Me too I am going out of my mind trying to solve it. It is not my system It
can't be.
I got the message when I had a gig of ram and 1200mb virtual I upgrade to
two gigs of ram and let my virtual mem be at 3000mb. I got the same message.
I dumbed down all my performance choices and closed all my programs. No
change.
The cost in time and effort alone is crazy. Who is going to pay money for
these head aches?
Pete

Crazed Weasel said:
I have Vista RC1, and get the following errors:

- low memory trying to play a DVD in Media Player
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to play a DVD
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to watch TV from a Hauppauge
WinPVR-150 (I think it sends the video to the PC in MPEG)

Can you tell me if the MPEG-2 codecs for RC1 are expired now? If that is
so, can you tell me how I can get an unexpired codec? I believe I have some
codec's with software for that PC, but it is XP based, and I don't know if it
is compatible with Vista.


Naveen Thumpudi said:
The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 8/31 in Vista Beta 2.
Using RC1 is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista release
would not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
----
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers not rights.
----



Dan said:
Least I'm not alone and indicates it is a problem with Vista and not, as I
was dreading, something gone wrong inside my machine!

:

Well, I can't help but you are not alone. I just started getting errors as
well and have read a usenet post that indicated the same. I'm hoping one of
the updates has a bug that will be fixed by Microsoft.

Dan wrote:
When I try to create a DVD with Windows DVD Maker I get a and error saying
Ran Out Of Memory and the program stops the creation process.
Similary when I try to play a TV program recorded with Media Centre through
Media Player I get a low memory error and the video won't play.
This, however, has only just started to happened. I used to be able to do
both with no problem.
I'm running a 3.4Ghz Intel Viiv Dual Processor, 2GB RAM and have 150GB free
of my hard drive... Any help?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
I temporarily changed my system date to Aug 15th and all the problems went
away. So it seems like the decoder did expire sometime after Aug 15th.

Unfortunately, the performance was really bad. The image would jump when
watching TV. That didn't happen watching a DVD. But in both cases, the CPU
was almost 100% busy.

The same computer booted to XP is able to do either with ~35% CPU usage.

My PC's an older P4 1.7Gig with PC133 ram. It does have a new ATI Radeon
9550 video card (so it supports Aero), but the AGP slot is limited to run at
4x max speed.



Pedar said:
Me too I am going out of my mind trying to solve it. It is not my system It
can't be.
I got the message when I had a gig of ram and 1200mb virtual I upgrade to
two gigs of ram and let my virtual mem be at 3000mb. I got the same message.
I dumbed down all my performance choices and closed all my programs. No
change.
The cost in time and effort alone is crazy. Who is going to pay money for
these head aches?
Pete

Crazed Weasel said:
I have Vista RC1, and get the following errors:

- low memory trying to play a DVD in Media Player
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to play a DVD
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to watch TV from a Hauppauge
WinPVR-150 (I think it sends the video to the PC in MPEG)

Can you tell me if the MPEG-2 codecs for RC1 are expired now? If that is
so, can you tell me how I can get an unexpired codec? I believe I have some
codec's with software for that PC, but it is XP based, and I don't know if it
is compatible with Vista.


Naveen Thumpudi said:
The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 8/31 in Vista Beta 2.
Using RC1 is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista release
would not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
----
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers not rights.
----



:

Least I'm not alone and indicates it is a problem with Vista and not, as I
was dreading, something gone wrong inside my machine!

:

Well, I can't help but you are not alone. I just started getting errors as
well and have read a usenet post that indicated the same. I'm hoping one of
the updates has a bug that will be fixed by Microsoft.

Dan wrote:
When I try to create a DVD with Windows DVD Maker I get a and error saying
Ran Out Of Memory and the program stops the creation process.
Similary when I try to play a TV program recorded with Media Centre through
Media Player I get a low memory error and the video won't play.
This, however, has only just started to happened. I used to be able to do
both with no problem.
I'm running a 3.4Ghz Intel Viiv Dual Processor, 2GB RAM and have 150GB free
of my hard drive... Any help?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for that
Pete

Crazed Weasel said:
I temporarily changed my system date to Aug 15th and all the problems went
away. So it seems like the decoder did expire sometime after Aug 15th.

Unfortunately, the performance was really bad. The image would jump when
watching TV. That didn't happen watching a DVD. But in both cases, the CPU
was almost 100% busy.

The same computer booted to XP is able to do either with ~35% CPU usage.

My PC's an older P4 1.7Gig with PC133 ram. It does have a new ATI Radeon
9550 video card (so it supports Aero), but the AGP slot is limited to run at
4x max speed.



Pedar said:
Me too I am going out of my mind trying to solve it. It is not my system It
can't be.
I got the message when I had a gig of ram and 1200mb virtual I upgrade to
two gigs of ram and let my virtual mem be at 3000mb. I got the same message.
I dumbed down all my performance choices and closed all my programs. No
change.
The cost in time and effort alone is crazy. Who is going to pay money for
these head aches?
Pete

Crazed Weasel said:
I have Vista RC1, and get the following errors:

- low memory trying to play a DVD in Media Player
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to play a DVD
- DECODER ERROR in Media Center trying to watch TV from a Hauppauge
WinPVR-150 (I think it sends the video to the PC in MPEG)

Can you tell me if the MPEG-2 codecs for RC1 are expired now? If that is
so, can you tell me how I can get an unexpired codec? I believe I have some
codec's with software for that PC, but it is XP based, and I don't know if it
is compatible with Vista.


:

The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 8/31 in Vista Beta 2.
Using RC1 is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista release
would not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
----
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers not rights.
----



:

Least I'm not alone and indicates it is a problem with Vista and not, as I
was dreading, something gone wrong inside my machine!

:

Well, I can't help but you are not alone. I just started getting errors as
well and have read a usenet post that indicated the same. I'm hoping one of
the updates has a bug that will be fixed by Microsoft.

Dan wrote:
When I try to create a DVD with Windows DVD Maker I get a and error saying
Ran Out Of Memory and the program stops the creation process.
Similary when I try to play a TV program recorded with Media Centre through
Media Player I get a low memory error and the video won't play.
This, however, has only just started to happened. I used to be able to do
both with no problem.
I'm running a 3.4Ghz Intel Viiv Dual Processor, 2GB RAM and have 150GB free
of my hard drive... Any help?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
After reading about the solutions I installed the latest Nvidia decoder. This
solved my MCE problem but has not changed the Media players Low Memory
warning. I still can not play the recorded TV files in Media player. My 1 GB
of RAM with no other applications running shows 500Mb allocated. This seems
high.

Running RC1 on a 3.4 Gh dual processor with 1 GB RAM and a virtual memory
setting of 3000 Mb

Naveen Thumpudi said:
The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 8/31 in Vista Beta 2.
Using RC1 is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista release
would not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
----
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers not rights.
----



Dan said:
Least I'm not alone and indicates it is a problem with Vista and not, as I
was dreading, something gone wrong inside my machine!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Same problem here - Just loaded RC1 Yesterday.

Can't play DVD using my second drive either (unless I start PowerDVD myself
as Autoplay only wants Media Player or Media Centre)
 
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