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Once again I submit myself to you dear forum members.

This time it's video and it's not really an Opus issue I suspect. Every time I try to insert a video Opus locks up, right after I've chosen the video and confirmed I want to insert it everything just freezes and I have to use Task Manager to get going again. It's not a problem with the video or Opus, using another PC I can import without a problem. It happens with .mov and .wmv. This come on the tail end of a weird spell when for one day .mov would import but .wmv wouldn't, prior to that the opposite had been true for months. Then the following day neither worked, and it's been that way since.

I've cleaned up my system and uninstalled a couple of things that may have been incompatible (Limewire and a JRE update) Limewire removal through uninstalling and windows explorer and spyware removal tool! Double

It's driving me nuts, and does anyone know the best way to get multiple videos on one page? If thats even a good idea? Sometimes it works sometimes not.

Smashing

Peter --

Of all the things you can do on a computer, I'd vote for rendering video as the single biggest user of resources, and playing DVDs (MPEG2) second, and MPEG1s third.

When I read you wanted to play multiple videos simultaneously on the same Page, I thought "good luck." If you know your audience has powerful computers, maybe it will work. I'd play it safe and limit myself to one video playing per Page. How can someone watch two videos at once? Is there a separate audio track which will also be playing? That would be even more CPU cycles being used.

You may want to re-think your design, and go with something more modest which will work every time.

Peter,

How big are the videos?

Clive Cartmel