I need some help

[ab11_99]

Hello,

I have this strange problem with my new PC, every few days Intervideo WinCoder and WinDVR (as well as PowerVCR 3) just refuse to record, i can see the preview just fine but the mpegs come out as 0 bytes, this problem occures in Win98 and WinXP, did anyone see this kinda of behavier before ?

swistching off the PC seems to help fix the problem but not all the time.

appricate any help ?

system spec :

Enermax case with 350W Power supply
Gigabyte GA8-IRXP
Petium 4 1.8A (northwood)
256Mb DDR266 (2100)
Gainward GeForce4 Ti4400 PowerPack! Ultra/700XP Golden Sample with 128Mb vid memory (TV codec Phlips 7108) IRQ16
onboard Soundblaster PCI128 IRQ22
Conexant soft56K
Western Digital WD40BB 40 Gb 7200rpm
Ricoh MP7200 40/20/10 CDRW
Windows98 (not second edition)
Windows XP Pro (2600)

all the latest drivers and software

[Thorn]

I've had a similar problem with virtualdub, it tells me that certain resources are in use and it can't connect to the capture driver. I had it on my AIW 128 and just saw the same thing on my Gainward geforce4 4200 (on the ATI it also happened with the ATI tv player) so it appears to be a windows thing. I'm on win2k. My theory is that it's a media player problem, and that it grabs ahold of resources and doesn't let go after you exit. Rebooting works for me, it's just a pain.