VideoWave Premier 8

[mark42]

I just installed VideoWave Premier 8 Suite on a PC with Win XP and a ton of photos and video on a 160gig hard drive (F). Roxwatch and Roxmediadb were taking all resources, like you experienced. What I did was use MSCONFIG and unchecked RoxWatchTray on the Startup tab.

 

After that, I still found them running the next time I started the PC. So I used Taskmanager to cancel Roxwatch and Roxmediadb. This may take a minuite or two because Taskmanager has to get loaded, not easy when there is no cpu time available.....

 

Then I used Administrative Tools to disable the two offending Roxio services.

 

After a restart, they did not come back.

 

This is just poor planning on Roxio's part. These applications should be controlable from a Tools menu in any Rox application.

 

BTW, at one point I decided to let the apps run and see how long it would take them to build their database of photos. On a 2.4g Pentium machine, with the apps just searching the F drive (where all the media is) twenty minutes later, its still running at 80-90% cpu. The Videowave app will still not load. That is just not acceptable.

[mark42]

There is your main problem. How much free space do you have on that drive? Remember you will need a lot of clean, free and defragged space on that drive to do any work. If you have "tons" of stuff, then I'm almost sure that you will come back and complain that the program hangs on you or tells you not enough space.

 

Move those tons of files to another drive or to an external drive to clear up space -- Oh, by the way if you would have done that to begin with, you would not have the program trying to catalog all the "tons" of files. Also after the program does catalog the files, then it would not do so again except for updates.

 

I guess that Roxio assumed (incorrectly) that usually good disc management procedures are followed.

 

 

So my problem is that I have a lot of photos and videos on a hard drive? LOL! And how do you know what "disc management procedures" I use? Are you kid? Your erroneous assumptions and conclusions are typical of a kid.

 

Get serious. I guess roxio just assumes that no one who buys their product has built up an extensive library of photo/video. It was poor software design to not allow the user to overide the automatic catalog of all existing photo and video. The base it builds is useless to me, because my "good disc management procedures" allow me to know exactly where any file I need is, so no need for Roxio to build a base and waste hard drive space.

 

I'm not saying that the base is bad, I'm sure it is a big help to many users. They just dropped the ball on giving an overide.

 

Also, above I stated to "disable" the roxio services. I should have said to change the Startup Type to Manual (from Automatic). Every thing will work fine, and those services will not start until you start Roxio Videowave, etc.

 

Have a Very Merry Christmas!

[sknis]

So my problem is that I have a lot of photos and videos on a hard drive? LOL! And how do you know what "disc management procedures" I use? Are you kid? Your erroneous assumptions and conclusions are typical of a kid.

 

Get serious. I guess roxio just assumes that no one who buys their product has built up an extensive library of photo/video. It was poor software design to not allow the user to overide the automatic catalog of all existing photo and video. The base it builds is useless to me, because my "good disc management procedures" allow me to know exactly where any file I need is, so no need for Roxio to build a base and waste hard drive space.

 

I'm not saying that the base is bad, I'm sure it is a big help to many users. They just dropped the ball on giving an overide.

 

Also, above I stated to "disable" the roxio services. I should have said to change the Startup Type to Manual (from Automatic). Every thing will work fine, and those services will not start until you start Roxio Videowave, etc.

 

Have a Very Merry Christmas!

 

First, you said that you had "tons", You did not use the term "lots". If you would have given us more information- Gigs of files, perhaps my answer would have been less "juvenile".

 

I do agree that Roxio should have changed the default to not create the library. I see the same thing in other programs, even Photosuite Elements that want you to build the library. You have to cancel out of that.

 

Send and e-mail to Roxio support. We are users, just like you and have no control over what is designed into the program.

 

And the same to you.

[sknis]

I just installed VideoWave Premier 8 Suite on a PC with Win XP and a ton of photos and video on a 160gig hard drive (F).

 

There is your main problem. How much free space do you have on that drive? Remember you will need a lot of clean, free and defragged space on that drive to do any work. If you have "tons" of stuff, then I'm almost sure that you will come back and complain that the program hangs on you or tells you not enough space.

 

Move those tons of files to another drive or to an external drive to clear up space -- Oh, by the way if you would have done that to begin with, you would not have the program trying to catalog all the "tons" of files. Also after the program does catalog the files, then it would not do so again except for updates.

 

I guess that Roxio assumed (incorrectly) that usually good disc management procedures are followed.