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| SoulOfMyShoe |
| Posted: Apr 13 2003, 01:43 AM |
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Hi, I am running Virtual Dub 1.5.1 on my Dell SmartStep 250N (with a desktop Pentium 4) running Windows XP. Sometimes, when I am processing video and/or audio using VDub, my computer will suddenly shut down without warning. I never receive an error message or anything, it just shuts down. This only seems to happen when I am compressing something, but it can happen with either video or audio. I have not yet had it happen with Direct Stream Copy, but it has happened when I was compressing to both XviD and DivX 4.12 (the video codecs I have used), and also when compressing to either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. I think it may have even happened when I was decompressing the audio to an uncompressed WAV file. Anyway, I am not sure what could be causing it but it happens fairly frequently. I end up having to do my projects in parts to make sure I don't lose all my progress at once. If I need to provide any more info, let me know.
Hope to hear from someone more knowledgeable than me (not that difficult on this subject) soon.
Thanks,
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| endorphin |
| Posted: Apr 13 2003, 03:07 AM |
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Hi Soul,
So... it doesn't even go to a blue or black screen with a Windows error? It doesn't even reboot? It just shuts down? That is odd behavior indeed. Please post any other details you can. |
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| SoulOfMyShoe |
| Posted: Apr 13 2003, 12:38 PM |
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Nope, there is no warning whatsoever. Usually I will just be watching a video file or something (although it happens when VDub is the only thing running as well) and the screen will suddenly turn off, and in about a second, the computer will shut off as well. There is only one thing that I could think may be causing it that is unique about my system. It is a laptop, adn I spilled some wine of the keyboard about a month ago. About half the keys on the keyboard don't work anymore (I am using an external keyboard right now), so maybe there is a short somewhere in the system or something, but it has never done this while I wasn't running Virtual Dub. Also, if it is going to happen, it usually happens near the beginning of the compression, some time within the first 5-10 minutes (which is of course varying percentages of doneness for the compression based on what I am compressing.) I don't know of much more info that I haven't provided, but feel free to ask specific questions and I will try to answer them as well as I can.
Thanks again,
SoulOfMyShoe
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