MSP(preview stops after 30 mins)

[Hamilton]

Help my media studio pro 5.2 has suddenly decided that it will no longer play preview files after the 30 mins mark.Sound continues but the picture freezes.I have uninstalled and reinstalled and have also formatted and reloaded all software.

Abit be6 m/b
P3 450 cpu
Matrox marvel g200
128 mb ram
windows 98 1st edition.

I had been a very happy person for months editing away with preview files over an hour long,now,I am just mad.HELP!!.

Thanks in advance.

[DrMordrid]

How full is your boot drive?

MSPro stores it's preview files in the C:\windows\temp directory. If the drive fills up this can cause various problems.

Before trying anything else try adding this to your autoexec.bat:

SET TMP=X:\TEMP
SET TEMP=X:\TEMP

where X: is your capture drive and \TEMP is a new TEMP directory you should create in the root of the capture drive.

If that doesn't help then holler again ;-)

Dr. Mordrid

[Hamilton]

Thanks for the quick reply.I have over 1.5G free on my boot drive and my preview folder is set to a seperate drive(d\)with 4G free,I am about to reformat again but I await some more input from you wise men out there before doing so.Thanks in advance.

[fluggo99]

Well, I seriously doubt this is the problem, but it's kinda good to check:

Make sure that in your preview options, you have interleave audio & video on and set to one.

Also make sure you have a really high limit (or no limit) set for your preview file space.

What would probably be really helpful for us is to give us your preview settings; what mode, what codec, are you sure you're not trying to break the 1/2 GB barriers, etc.