Goldwave Freezes Computer

[jr43822]

I captured from VHS to my computer with my new PVR 150 PCI card in MPEG format. Then I used TMPGEnc to Demultiplex so I could use Goldwave to remove hiss and make the mono sound 2 channel. I love Goldwave and I don't remember having a problem with it before, but I loaded this 2 hour and 20 minute mp2 and tried to use the Hiss Removal filter, it will do between 10 and 20 percent before it freezes my machine and I have to hold down the power button to turn it off. I watched the resource usage as I tried it again, and the CPU usage jumps up to 100% and stays there while this tries to use the filter.

I need to know either how to fix this problem or I need another program that can do the hiss removal and possibly make the mono sound stereo.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or recommendations.

[Soopafresh]

The mp2 file itself might be corrupted. Could also be DirectX, a drive error - tons of things. Convert the Mp2 to WAV with BeSweet and try to edit the WAV with GoldWave.

[mrtunes]

what kind of specs does your computer have?

[jr43822]

It still happened after converting it to WAV. It happens at 17%. I believe it happens at that same point everytime which would make me believe it is a problem in the audio. But I would have thought converting it would get rid of the problem. Also, I tested doing an audio filter on an mp3 song I had and the CPU usage was at 100% while it was doing that song also, but it didn't freeze up. My guess would be because it was only a 3 minute song compared to 2 1/2 hours.

My specs: AMD Athlon 1.73 GHz, 512MB Ram, Win XP Pro Service Pack 2, a 40GB hard drive (operating system) and an 80GB hard drive (audio/video files).

[Soopafresh]

You might have a screwed up source file - it happens quite a bit on TV captures. You can try to demux with an app like ProjectX, which will fix the errors in your file and maintain sync.

http://www.turboupload.com/d/2186/ProjectX__Fixed.zip.html

[jr43822]

It didn't work after that either. Are there any other programs I can try that do this?

[jr43822]

I tried trial version of Adobe Audition and it actually gave me a blue screen of death, dumping physical memory.

[jr43822]

I transferred the file to my sisters laptop which has a processor that is .2 GHz slower than mine, with the same amount of RAM I believe, and I was able to use Goldwave to filter the hiss. But if anyone can think of anything I can check or do to make it work on my computer I'd appreciate it. It would save about 30 minutes of transfer time.