Trouble Playing Large MPG Files

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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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Henry said:
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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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
 
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.
 
Have you tried using MediaPlayerClassic? It handels most mpeg formats with
own filters, so might be stable.
 
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?
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I'm running XP Pro.

Henry

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