Friday, July 25, 2003

Roger Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms

Today's amusing link: Roger Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms - basically a list of common movie stereotypes with names attached.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 12:59 PM

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

6th Time is the Charm

So... rebuild #6 on the A/V editing machine... or is it #7?

I finally got rid of the snap-crackle-pop from the audio stream as well as figuring out one or two other things. ATI MMC decided to be flaky though and refused to load the ATI/TV application (lets you capture video and watch TV) until I uninstalled / re-installed the drivers / MMC / WDM / etc. in just the right order (no way I could do it again).

I'm working on fixing up some caps at the moment, then I'll have to check out whether the dynamic A/V sync option in Virtual VCR works or not for me.

Update (few days later): Bleh, crackling in the audio track seems to be back already. I'm currently trying to figure out the source of the problem.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 12:16 PM

Monday, July 21, 2003

Snap Crackle Pop

Grrrr... kinda frustrated at the moment. When capturing video I'm now cursed with snaps crackles and pops in the audio stream and I can't find the source.

However, the audio controls are acting a bit odd (Cool Edit 2000 isn't piping the input to the output during recording, nor is it recording any sound at all) so it's probably a software issue.

Guess I'll be rebuilding the machine again tonight.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 12:11 PM

Sunday, July 20, 2003

Roxio Easy CD-DVD Creator 6

Well, after almost an entire weekend of troubleshooting - I finally tracked down the problem with Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator 6.

The symptom was that the hard drive light (indicating IDE activity) would go on and stay on, but not because the hard drives were in use (or at least they weren't churning). CPU usage stayed under 1%, but if you tried to open up the Disc Copier or Creator Classic the Windows 2000 machine would BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with "PROCESS_HAS_LOCKED_PAGES". This always occured when I installed Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator 6 and never before (system worked fine with version 5 of Roxio's software).

I even did things like uninstall the IDE chain (since I'm running my boot disc off of the Promise FastTrak100 Lite chain which looks like SCSI to the O/S), uninstalling Windows Media Player 9, or a few other things (rebuilt the system 3 times).

Finally, I read something that said that in v6 of Roxio's software, they no longer keep a built in list of all of the CD-ROM drives out there, instead they rely on the O/S to query the drive and report back the proper information. Eh? What? Hmmmm... not that this is a no-name drive (TEAC) and I've been using it for quite a while without problems, but I swapped it for an ACER 36X that was in another system.

So far, seems to have fixed the problem.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 4:24 PM