VS9 Menu Delay .. Hint Of Trouble?

dblml320 · Post by **dblml320** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:26 pm

When I switch to the Share Video function and select the create video item, the first time it takes a very long time for video format menu to come up. I have been having some troubles with capture recently and I wonder if somehow these might be related in some way. My working theory is that the delay is because VS9 is looking through a long chain of available video and audio codecs.

Any thoughts or comments?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:42 pm

How long is long? In my case, it also takes a 'long' time -- but by that, I mean it takes 6 or 7 seconds, which just seems like ages when you are normally accustomed to almost immediate responses on what is a fairly fast computer. I am not sure why it happens, but just sit back and wonder until the screen 'eventually' appears...!

dblml320 · Post by **dblml320** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:03 pm

Hi Ken,

In my case 15-20 seconds. Now after the first time it is faster 2-4 seconds.

I wish Windows provided better utilities for examing codecs, and other things that get polluted and corrupted.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:17 am

How much memory do you have? The system might be swapping if it is low on RAM and had to rely on the swap file. Another possibility is that some device (a removable drive, memory card reader etc.) is going to sleep or isn't ready and that it takes a few seconds for the device status check to time out.

dblml320 · Post by **dblml320** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:56 am

Hi, I have 1.0GB of RAM, and a 2.5GB swap file. I am going to check into the latter, my system has an array of card reader slots built in, each one mapped to a drive.

I am going to try disabling those and see if that changes the timing.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:05 am

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