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Hyper-threading – failed to return video frame – info
Discovered something interesting and just thought I’d share it.
I have been struggling with exporting to MPEG 2 with the MainConcepts encoder on any project near 1 hour. I’ve struggled with this for more than a year, and have never been able to get through w/o the “failed to return a video frame” error. I’ve not had to worry about it, because I’ve been using the Matrox RT.x10 with Premiere Pro 1.0. The RT.x10 has a Matrox encoder called Ligos, which actually does a much better job with fading in and out of slow motion (no flicker like the MainConcepts encoder). But recently the Ligos encoder has been giving me an “Export Error” dialog box that says, “Error compiling movie. Unknown error.”
So, after searching and reading, I decided go into my bios settings on my Dell DIMENSION 8400 (Pentium 4 CPU 3.40GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM) and shut off hyper-threading. Well, I never realized that the factory setting was actually set to “off.” So I turned hyper-threading from “off” to “on,” and what do you know? For the first time I was able to export a long project w/ the MainConcepts encoder – just the opposite of what others have done.
Just thought I’d share that.
I was going to try to use the 330380 fix, but apparently don’t need that now.
dave
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Hmmm… Users have reported success by turning off hyperthreading. Anyway, thanks for the fix. Now there are two ways of solving the problem.
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