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#.AVI hangs

    26-Jun-93 08:38:16
Sb: #.AVI hangs
Fm: Steve Beyer 73250,1676
To: ALL
I have a Gateway 4DX2-66V with a Sony CDU-41A CD-ROM reader. When I play .AVI files from the CD-ROM drive through MPLAYER, after a varying amount of time (ten seconds to a minute) the video stops, there is about a 15-second pause, and I get the message "System Error: Unable to Read Drive D:" Sometimes pressing "Retry" gets things going again. This happens about 80% of the time; the rest of the time everything works. I have installed the new version 2.0 mach32 video drivers from ATI for my ATI GU Pro local bus with 2M; I have tried caching my D: drive with Lightning for Windows; nothing has helped. If I recall correctly, this did not happen under the old version 1.5 build 54 of the mach32 drivers, but I did not play much video back then. I sure seems like a memory problem to me; but I am using plain vanilla EMM386 and HIMEM configured with MEMMAKER — nothing fancy. Any help would be appreciated. — Steve