oh shoot... seems like it's only a problem on this pc... tried it on the dual core in the other room and it works fine... this one is a single core 3.0 ghz [both are XP ]
darn, darn, darn...
ok let's look on the bright side...
I'm now accepting donations for an i7 build... [hey better than giving money to some political dude, eh?
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EDIT... a little more about this just tested:
even on the wimmpy pc, if I use the png's that come with reaper for track icons, it works OK... BUT if I use color pngs it hangs [on this pc]
this is true even if the color pngs are very small.... Now this is strange to me since even on this same pc it will play an mp4 video OK [given the good codecs]....
So I'm wondering if there is some sort of better "png codec".... I'm open to all ideas
EDIT 2... well more... making a new little set of png's that seem to work fine... 64x64 px both none and interlaced work OK.. seems to me at the moment that IF the pngs are very small they work OK even on the wimmp... that is good
I want a little set to use for 'heads up' cues [clues] that can be seen in the video window from far away... this will work
thanks for all the help and still, if you think of anything more, plz do tell.