dmk

For those of you who use encoder, I could use some help. I am running a 500mhz pIII with 384 meg of RAM running windows XP professional. Everytime I try to encode a file Encoder does the following:
1. runs at 100% CPU usage
2. Will make the first pass with out trouble, however wil only do the first 2-5 seconds of the output encode.

This is very annoying, every file I try to encode no matter the extension or size, or what I have the computer doing ie I can turn everything off but encoder and it does it...Encoder worked for the first 2 files that I did several months ago. Haven't tried uninstalling then reinstalling.

But I dont have a DVD onthe computer so most of the files are from firends, or dig cam or stream.

Is there a better way to do this, Is my computer just too old to handle? Is anyone else having this problem

PS I have changed the audio compression size per MS release to 64/44

Thanks