MSP6 GoMotion MPEG capture problems

[gibverse]

I was playing around with the MPEG capture option in Media Studio Pro 6, and when capturing, after a while, Win98 just bottoms up. Bluescreen, then nothing. I'm not sure if this may be a heat issue (I'm not overclocking; I'll install PCProbe and watch the temperature next time I try) or possibly a problem with the GoMotion codec. Anyone have any prior experiance with this.

Thanks,
John

[wkulecz]

IF Bill Gates had a nickle for every time windows crashed he'd .....

Oh wait, he does!


Seriously, how long does capture go before crashing? This is probably gonna be hard to track down. Without more system details, it'll be impossible. Which version of Win98 for example? motherboard? etc.

--wally.
(shamelessly stolen from the sig line I saw in a usenet Linux newsgroup posting :-)

[gibverse]

The system will crash between 3 mins and 17 mins after capture starts from what I've seen so far.

I'm running Win98SE, on an Asus P2B PII-400, 128 RAM... I should have a decent chunk of time tommorow to play with it some more, maybe I can make some sense of it then. I have a feeling that it may actually have to do with the video source and not the acutal hardware/software, but not sure yet.

I'll say more when I can get some more trials in.

John

[gibverse]

Well, I played around with GoMotion some more. I've gone from as short as 7 seconds to as long as 10 min, 53 secs without crashing. But it always crashes. It _appears_ to do it whenever there is a drastic change in the video stream. For example, I was capturing off TV, and when there is a cut to commerial, it usually dies. I'm wondering if this large change in input is too much for my PII-400 to handle.
After the crash, Ulead is closed, and I can't shutdown (have to reset button). Before I try reinstalling 98, has anyone sucessfully done long captures (like 1-3 hours) with GoMotion?

BTW, this is practiacally a virgin 98SE install, all that's on is the OS, Ulead MSP 6, the Divx codec, WinZip 7, the YUY2 hack and Sun's M*vision crack, and I installed the trial of AVI_IO today. Task manager is disabled, no virus scanner, and I have 98 using a 128-128 mb swapfile.
I can capture to RGB/MJPEG all day with no problems, so I doubt its hardware.

John

[Flying dutchman]

Could it be bitrate related? On my PC, even the DIVX and MPEG4 codecs cause a blue screen if I set the bitrate much too high. So I capture in raw YUY2, and convert the whole bunch of AVI files into a single DIVX file using virtualdub (6000 kbits/sec, smoothness 60%).
This DIVX-compressed file is excellent source material for MPEG-1 conversion. No more filtering is needed; you can use LSX encoder in the fastest mode!