On May 11, 6:23*am, Russell May wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 02:14:13 -0400, Paul wrote:
Russell May wrote:
I experimented a little more tonight. I played an AVI file in pivot
mode using Nero ShowTime again. After about 30 minutes, it locked up.
First about an 620Hz tone (E-flat) sounded. After a few seconds, about
a 470Hz tone (B-flat) and 390Hz tone (G) joined it. My perfect-pitch
wife identified the tones. The sound came from the PC speaker. I never
use that because I have external speakers. Hyper-threading was not
disabled after reset and reboot this time, so symptoms were a little
different from previously.
Russ
(Second attempt to send this...)
You may want to play with how the video is rendered.
For example. look for the word "Showtime" on this page.
http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/ind...ient=printer&f...
They make reference to things like Hardware Overlay (typically you can only
have one of those running at a time on the computer), VMR7, or VMR9. The latter
two are part of Microsoft DirectX. It's possible you have a bug somewhere
in one of those modes, but not some other.
I can't tell you exactly where to look for those. I tried a Nero manual, but
the setting didn't seem to be in Nero. Some programs, when playing video, use
the same CODEC path as Windows Media Player might. And then, it is possible
the overlay setting for video rendering, is actually in some other place
than inside Nero itself. (Like a Windows Media Player preference.)
You can try changing the "Hardware Acceleration" slider for the display, like
turning it all the way down as a test. That might also result in an alternative
rendering plane being used for video.
Perhaps some change like that, will stop the crashing. It sounds like the
program itself is going nuts, or some data structure is overwriting program
code, and the program is jumping off into space. Each Windows OS, has developed
increasingly sophisticated mechanisms to stop that from happening (like NX
or No Execute bit for virtual to physical memory mapping), and those are
ways for the OS to stop something that has "jumped into space".
* *Paul
I tried reducing display Hardware Acceleration. The third level
disables DirectX, Direct3D, cursor, and advanced drawing
accelerations. That allows VLC and WMP to play an AVI file in pivot
mode. I don't know yet whether it will affect the lockup problem.
The Radeon 9000 box says it suports DirectX 8.1 but some program said
it was actually using DirectX 9. I thought that was Belarc Advisor,
but now Belarc Advisor says nothing about DirectX. Is there something
that I can use to report which version of DirectX is actually being
used? Might the version be important to this problem?
Incidentally, I do not have ATI's Crystal Control Center. I have the
ATI driver, ATI Control Panel, and Hydravision (even though I have
only one display, the Dell 2007FP). Windows Control Panel says the
latter two programs were last used on 11/9/2002.
Russ
Well, possibly updated drivers for the Radeon 9000 would make a
difference, along with the Catalyst Control Panel, which provides
additional controls and information (like which Direct X is in use).
Catalyst Control Panel is yet another kludge that uses the now-
misnamed Microsoft DOT-Net, but once one gets over its DOT-Netness and
sheer size, it does work as advertised.
The Radeon 9000 box says DirectX 8.1, because it was state-of-the-art
at the time. Although the word "art" and anything Microsoft is an
oxymoron, except for Getty Images. Some of those are truly art... Ben
Myers