playback hang-ups

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Went to papajohn site very informative but no luck for my particulars which are
Video captures fine from my sony mini DV cam and saving back to mini DV gives good results as well. Its the editing and MM clip playback on the MM2 monitor pane that is very unstable and sometimes results in the infamous error report. I should add that the audio is played back without interuption, its really only the compressed video file (I think MM2 call this a movie maker project file) that seems to have the problem in stability, meaning when i play back the (edit in process project file) timeline it almost seems that the graphics card (in my case a graphics adaptor intel 170) is trying to catch up with the speed of the video images, the result of course is a highly unwatchable product. I checked the codecs through the XP direct diagnostic tool and did not see any that matched ones listed at papajohns site.I also tried the settings on the accelerator but to no avail. I should also add that MM2 does save the last edit when there is an error crash (hang-up), a window comes up asking me if I want to retrieve the lost data, so eventually I can finish the edit but what a pain. Anybody have anything new to add? Papajohns comments are always aprreciated.
hilowathome

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I'm reading a couple things into your post.... the first thing being that
the project previewing happens in real time, and MM2 will drop whatever info
it needs to in order to keep up with time going by..... the amount of info
it drops will vary with the capabilities of your computer. It's just a
preview so don't be concerned about whatever is being dropped.

But rendering of the saved movie takes the time it needs, so all the info
should be in the finished movie.... depending on your choice of quality,
your computer may or may not be able to play it back smoothly even if it's
all there.... a good hard drive tune-up will help a lot for smooth playback.

On the crashing during the editing process, 99% of the time it boils down to
the codec and acceleration issues.... your checking of the codecs should be
against the list of 15 or so known problem ones on the Problem Solving >
Acceleration and Codecs page.... it's not via the diagnostics tools or
comparing your codecs to those on my laptop... it's simply doing file
searching for files that have .ax extensions and looking them over. If you
have more than one of the problem ones, you need to rename them all, not
check them one at a time (the record so far is 7 of them on one computer -
renaming all 7 resolved it).

Good luck,

PapaJohn

Went to papajohn site very informative but no luck for my particulars which are:
Video captures fine from my sony mini DV cam and saving back to mini DV

gives good results as well. Its the editing and MM clip playback on the MM2
monitor pane that is very unstable and sometimes results in the infamous
error report. I should add that the audio is played back without
interuption, its really only the compressed video file (I think MM2 call
this a movie maker project file) that seems to have the problem in
stability, meaning when i play back the (edit in process project file)
timeline it almost seems that the graphics card (in my case a graphics
adaptor intel 170) is trying to catch up with the speed of the video images,
the result of course is a highly unwatchable product. I checked the codecs
through the XP direct diagnostic tool and did not see any that matched ones
listed at papajohns site.I also tried the settings on the accelerator but to
no avail. I should also add that MM2 does save the last edit when there is
an error crash (hang-up), a window comes up asking me if I want to retrieve
the lost data, so eventually I can finish the edit but what a pain. Anybody
have anything new to add? Papajohns comments are always aprreciated.