Many problems.............. :(

[Codecoder]

1- I think the solution is installing a new fresh copy of windows in this case. Everytime I try to convert any movie/film using any encoder, my pc freezes and I have to reboot. It is freezing when I try to watch movies/films too. The thing is, my pc is freezing at will too when I download torrents or play games or browsing my files. There is only one way to convert movies/films here, in windows safe mode. No clue why It doesnt freeze in safe mode.

2- I want to convert some anime episodes to svcd but the output quality is VERY LOW and VERY GOOD too in the same conversion, lots of mpge artifacts at the edges, and around the fixed subtitles, and poor color quality when there is a lot of motion going on but nearly perfect quality when there is nothing moving or few pixels are moving. TMPGE noise reduction filter seems to fix that annoying artifacts but it is unusable here, it makes the time needed to convert things be something like 2 hours to convert 1 minute. I'm getting the same mix of low and good quality with AVI2SVCD, WinAVI, TMPGEnc and so on. The best result I've got so far is with Mainconcept SVCD / 10bits / progressive / and the 2 sliders all to right side.

Forgot the source. Source is 640 x 480 23.xxfps Dvix v3. After watching some paused frames zoomed I could see that the mpge artifact are there in the source as well, but they get ten times more visible after converting.

3- I did one conversion to VCD one time that made the anime episode look all pixelated and low res here, but almost perfect on my DVD-player. I can't remeber which encoder did that.

4- When bbmpge starts to encode anything, it stops respoding when it reaches the frame number 73 of any movie/film, although it is not responding it is still heavly using the CPU and maybe still converting. I can't make it to work under win xp, when I try to load any movie a "Send error report to MS" pops up.

[wwjd]

Have you defraged the hard drive lately? If your 'C' drive is nearly full and has lots of fragmented files then your system will run slowly.

It is also possible that you have lots of spyware and or a virus.

wwjd

[junkmalle]

You're CPU is probably overheating. Open it up and clean all the dust out of the CPU heat sink and fan.

[guns1inger]

I agree with JunkMalle. Encoding, playing high graphical games etc are pretty CPU intensive and will heat up your machine. Try pulling the covers off, making sure all cards and memory sticks are properly seated, then leave the covers off and try an encode. If it doesn't seize up, start pricing new fans.

[gll99]

My first suspicion would be the heat as well ie.. power supply and/or cpu heatsink detached or clogged fan but after the heat issue the next logical reason is video card problems (possibly the fan which still heat related but localized to that device). Another is a driver conflicts. Both of those are modified by running in safe mode. The video card runs at minimal settings vga 640x480 and only necessary drivers are loaded in safe mode which removes potential conflicts.
Try running in normal mode but lower the video card resolution and see if that helps. If that seems to minimize the problem then check the fan on the card it may have stopped. If not then return it to your original settings and try to recall what you installed when the problem started and remove some of the apps and test until you find the offending drivers.

[johns0]

Bad or incompatible ram can cause freezes when doing heavy cpu tasks.

[lordsmurf]

Hard drive could also be locking up (going bad!)

[Codecoder]

Norton DiskDoctor and Windoctor din't solve those damn freezes. But it seems that lowering FSB100 to FSB95 makes the system more stable. But I think it's the motherboard or chipset flaw, some MBs are well known to show some stability problems.

About the low output image quality of the anime, it has nothing to do with the conversion process, the ripper did a not very good job when he converted whatever source to Dvix. I managed to greatly improve the output image quality by configuring the noise reduction in Mainconcept, so bbmpge is no longer needed.

[Nelson37]

Two key pieces of information identify your problem.

1. PC freezes when simply browsing files - a very low-intensity task.

2. PC does NOT freeze when running in safe mode - you mention encoding, which would mean that the PC is running long enough to encounter a heat problem, if one is present.

Note here that the encoding and playback problem is probably a red herring, #1 shows that. These are simply what you are doing most of the time, so that's when most of the lockups occur. But the two are not related.

What is different running in Safe Mode??? The software that is loaded, namely virtually nothing. Also minimal fonts, basic video driver, etc. It is also possible that the minimal extra load aggravates a flaky mem chip, your results with lowering the bus speed could point to that. However, lowering the bus speed could simply be helping to mask a software conflict to some extent. Fixing that problem is easy to test, and costs nothing.

Go thru the registry and ruthlessly eliminate all running software, if not familiar with this get someone to help, make a backup copy first.

[junkmalle]

I misread the first message of this thread. I thought it said the computer even froze in safe mode. But it says it doesn't freeze in safe mode. That makes it unlikely the problem is overheating.

Nelson37 is right, you probably have a software problem. You can use MSCONFIG to keep programs from starting automatically at bootup. Do the following: Start -> Run, enter MSCONFIG, press OK. Select the Startup tab. There you will see a bunch of programs that start automatically when you boot.

For testing purposes uncheck all of them and reboot. If your system works fine after that try putting some of them back and reboot. Repeat until you find the offending program(s). If removing all the startup programs doesn't fix the problem it's probably a driver issue. Since you have a VIA chipset based motherboard be sure you have the most up to date INF drivers from VIA. They're notorious for releasing crap in early revs -- especially back in the 1.2 GHz Athlon days.

I've seen bad spyware infestations create similar problems. Run something like AdAware to get rid of any spyware you might have.

[showtime586]

Download Motherboard Monitor to see how hot the cpu is getting. That will allow you to rule out one possibility.