video problems in Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 17/01/12 08:21, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>  My computer is dual core processor 2300 Mhtz 1Gig memory i686 two 250 
> G  hard drives.  I have downloaded video from Internet archives. I can 
> play them and put on the time line of several video editors and watch 
> them. I can watch them in Mplayer and other media  I cannot render 
> from any of them. Ubuntu crashes.  I have down loaded in severl 
> different formats but can't e render. I am busy reading the help in 
> the Internet archives and have been asking question from the video 
> editor web sites.  I am guessing the problems are in the down loads I 
> have converted them into other formats but still no success. I doubt 
> the problem is with ubuntu because this morning I  had a friend down 
> load one of them and try to render them in the windows movie maker and 
> they crashed windows as well.   The video is an hour long I tride 
> rendering and saving the part that had rendered, the first one was 15 
> min. long and the rest a little shorter. I put them all on the editor 
> time line and they played fine but still would not render.  All the 
> files I used had been rendered to mpeg 2.  I have been working on this 
> well over a week with no success.  Anybody got any ideas??
>   I am not getting any messages saying I am running out of memory 
> though that might be the problem.                                     
>                                                                     Doug

What exactly do you mean by "render/rendering"? And what application are 
you trying to "render" the video with?

BC

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