"Big" memory problem

Blackspeed · Post by **Blackspeed** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:32 pm

Hello,

I have recorded something with an digital TV-card. Now - as usual - I wanted to create a dvd out of it.

The problem is that the veditor.exe process is using 1.6 GB RAM until the program crashes because of to low memory. Why is this application is using so much memory?
I noticed that this allways happen when I am using ac3 files (Dolby 5.1 recorded TV film or Dolby 2.0 recorded TV film). I am not shure but I think this only happens when I am using these multichannel audio files.

PLEASE help me.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:48 pm

You don't tell us which version of MSP you are using. It's not usual for the program to be using that much memory. Maybe something else is causing this, something running in the background?

Also, if you are using MSP 7, have you loaded the SP3 patch and added the AC3 support module?

Blackspeed · Post by **Blackspeed** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:06 am

Sorry I have forgeotten that. I am using version 8.0. I thaught that was clear because I didn't know that there is an AC3 Plugin available vor the MSP 7.

Do you really think a program in the background could cause this problem? How? MediaStudio Pro 8 is using 1.6 GB RAM.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:10 am

How do you know it's MSP? What else do you have installed on this machine? Many programs leave TSR's behind when they close, using up valuable resources.

Try a reboot and terminate anything on the task bar you don't need at this point in time and try again. Still using 1.6 GB?

Blackspeed · Post by **Blackspeed** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:48 am

Thank you for the answer.

For creating DVDs I installed the "TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6" with an AC3 plugin.
Is it possible that this program is responsible for the error? When I am encoding a MPEG File with Stereo Soundfiles, the behaviour of the memory is normal.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:20 am

I honestly don't know. I use MSP 7.3 and MF 3 Diskcreator for all my DVD creation. MSP 8 should be perfectly capable to generate the required mpeg files and author these to DVD.

One thing I have gathered from other posts here and on other forums, MSP 8 really takes advantage of installed RAM to a degree the older versions did not. From what I can gather from your details provided, your system has 1 GB of RAM installed, sytem usage is 1.6 GB. There is a fair amount of memory swapping involved here. do you have enough free disk space? Defragmented lately? Where does your swap file physically live? Same HDD as the system?

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:11 am

That was my thought too; his C drive is running out of space for the system swapfile to expand enough for large programs or large projects. This almost always results in a memory error.

Blackspeed · Post by **Blackspeed** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:11 am

The swapfile is stored on a seperate partition - restricted to its file size. On the hard drive where MSP 8 is creating the mpeg file there is enaugh space to create the file. I just defragmented the partition.

But how could be the file size of the swap cause the error when Windows wants to enlarge the swapfile when to much memory is needed?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:18 pm

I'm not an expert on this but, AFAIK, there are a lot of settings in XP that have an effect on how the swapfile is used.

Mine is situated on a separate HDD to the system one and is the only file on that partition. The partition size is limited to 2.5 x RAM but I have set the swapfile use in the device manager to 2 x RAM. Max/min settings for the swapfile are identical. I also have a small, swapfile, 172MB, on my C drive. That's needed for the system to generate the small memory dump in case of a fatal error.

Have you set your swapfile in device manager? Do not confuse this with the Temp file for MSP.

Blackspeed · Post by **Blackspeed** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:35 pm

I have a 2 MB Swapfile on my system partition, a 4 GB on a bigger partition and a 1,5 GB file on a seperate partition.

Note: This problem only occures when I want to encode AC3 2.0 files. It doesn't occures when I encode Dolby 5.1 files.