On 4 Nov 2003 13:05:04 -0600, "PowderMonkey" <me@here.net> wrote:
:>Hi Soc. Spent an hour or so checking all discs and everyone is fine
:>excepting for this one.
Something is *very* fishy, PM...
:> It caused havoc on my comp and the noises my comp
:>made were somewhat strange.
Immediate first question. Are those noises coming from your CD burner?
:> It plays fine without any problems, but when I
:>click on any vid as normal I get the window containing split, this does not
:>appear when I click on this one vid, so not going to mess around with it any
:>more, I shall dump it in case its got some kind of weirdie lurking in it.
You have a nasty habit of dumping insteada fixing. If it plays fine,
directly from the CD, then there's *nothing* wrong with the vid.
There's no "weirdie" in it. The weirdie is elsewhere. It might even be
the one at the keyboard... hehehe...
I've never used the default "click on it" setups, 'cause I hate them
immensely. However, I'm suspecting, from your descriptions, that
what's wrong is how or where this particular vid has been recorded.
:>I checked all info relating to this, read only, etc, but whenever I click on
:>it my comp starts to make some real ''cute'' noises. It just tells me there
:>is no access to this file, makes a few odd noises and closes my comp down.
It closes it down? Like actually turns the compuker off? Or what?
:>So not taking any more chances with it. It happens either on disc, or to
:>anywhere I copy it to, so the prob is obviously with the file itself.
Again, if the vid plays normally, then the file is fine. The prob is
elsewhere. And I have suspicions. I do know that you commonly use some
packet-writing program (that lets you use a CD-RW as if it were a very
slow hard drive, or a giant floppy disk), and that you download and
save and join, etc., directly on CDs. I don't use that format at all,
because I consider it flakey and unreliable. This could be an example.
Here are some possibilities. First, by using "click-on-it," JAS is
probably by default trying to read the file from a CD and then do what
it's doing back on the same CD. There may not be enough space on it.
Packet writing doesn't always re-use the space on a disk. It can leave
it half filled with files you "thought" were deleted, and with no free
space. I've watched it happen.
The disk could be write-protected. Somehow. Even accidentally. The
disk could be corrupted. You could've even slipped somewhere and
recorded it in a different format that doesn't allow re-recording. Who
knows... You mighta even recorded it on a CD-R, insteada an RW.
My suggestion: Make a temp folder on your hard drive. COPY the vid
from the disk to that folder. Then remove the disk from the CD drive,
to be sure it has nothing to do with the next steps.
PLAY the vid that you now have in the temp folder, to be sure that all
is well with it. Then, don't click on it, but run JAS the old
fashioned way, by starting it from its own icon, wherever you have it
stashed. Click on the Split tab. Browse to the temp folder containing
the vid and make sure the filename shows as "Source file(s)." Then
browse to the *same* temp folder for "Split in." Then split it.
When it works, erase that CD it was on and start it over, because it
was definitely screwed up.
Give it a shot and lemme know. Splitting a vid has *never* been
reported as causing a compuker to blow up.
Yours could be the first..... ;o)
See ya.
KH NP-b54
The day Micro$oft produces something that doesn't suck
will be the day they start producing vacuum cleaners.
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