Hello Ron - At 08:33 AM 10/25/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Charles wrote: >> One recorded MIDI/WAV conversion gets me a 20-70meg WAV file. >> With W31's limit of 16meg of memory it's not likely I can >> load any of these into an editor to normalize or equalize >> or any other adjustments. Even a good 196k bps MP3 is going >> to be 5 meg or more. Video and Audio require some extreme >> resources for editing. Almost too extreme IMO. > > I don't follow you ! I can record MIDI to WAV, get 35 - 45 MB WAV >files, edit/trim/convert/whatever, then compress to either MP3 of OGG >files at 128 kbs or better, and all in Windows 3.1. >I use the software that came with the SB16 soundcard. I don't have a SB16 sound card and no SB software here. This is a function of the software to offload to the VM or not. > And I can also edit AVI video (any that I have the codecs for) also in >W3.1, using the freeware MS editor. MOV and QT can be converted into AVI >for editing, then converted back using SMARTVID for win3.1 and DOS, also >freeware. Not sure what free M$ editor you refer to here and never heard of SMARTVID. >MPEG is a bit more involved, but there is old freeware that >can do it if you have the time and patience. I vaguely recall older MPEG DOS movie software and even recall some old DOS MPEG movies. > If W3.1 has a limit at 16 MB, nobody told my computer. As I understand it, it will only use 16meg of memory regardless how much the machine has installed. >Ben A L Jemmett wrote: >> BTW, I'm 99% certain Windows 3.1 could see all 40MB of installed RAM on my >> old P133 machine (now doing router/server duty here so I can't boot into DOS >> and check); admittedly it's been a long time since I did any development >> under Win16 so there might be a per-allocation or per-application limitation >> I'm forgetting. > > Well, Win3.1 sees all of the 64 MB RAM I have, with a swap file of >over twice that. W95 claims to 'see' 512meg of memory but will only _use_ 128meg of that. NT will use more. Basing an opinion on what windows displays to you is often a mistake. You can set a huge VM file in W31 too but it will never use more than 4x's memory or 1/2 the free hard drive space - the lesser of the two. It's a hard-coded failsafe. Displays will show that you selected more but it will not be used. Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Stories, poems, music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
