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Choppy DVD playback, help needed please

 
 
nononono
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      25th Jan 2006
Hi,

This occurs only on my PC, not on stand-alone DVD player
connected to TV. PC is beefy enough : XP home SP2 running on
2.5GHz P4, 1Gb memory, fast unfragmented SATA disks, HP home
SP2, Geoforce 6600GT card…I had Matrox 450 before and the
problem was the same. The problem is the same on both DVi
connectors and on both monitors.

This problem occurs on my own DVDs (created from my own DV
footage) and on DVDs downloaded as DVD5 or DVD9 from web. Both
Pal and NTSC.

It makes no difference if the DVD is played from the DVD player
inside PC (Pioneer 108) or as files played from disk. The
chopping points are random, every second or two, and never at
the same frames indicating a throughput or bottleneck problem.
Sound doesn’t stutter. The choppiness looks like a brief pause
in video playback, a fraction of a sec, and a picture than
jumps a couple of frames to catch on. There are no artefacts.
It is most visible when camera pans, horizontally or
vertically.

I have similar effect in PowerDVD ver 4 and 6, in MS Media
Player ver 10 and Zoomplayer 4.03 professional but it is
difficult to say if any of those is slightly better in that
respect. The CPU load is modest, 20-30 % for PowerDVD, 15 to
20 % for MsMP10 and 6 to 12 % for Zoomplayer on top of regular
20% of other stuff. Memory consumption is small, the graph
hardly moves, 50Mb for Powerdvd, 40Mb for MsMP10 and 45 for
Zoomplayer. All this is regardless of the screen size. The
problem stays the same if I increase the CPU priority to High
(13) for those programs.

I don’t have AV utilities running in the background stealing
CPU or memory, and some notorious services are disabled.
Programs are not allowed to use their automatic web updaters. I
regularly scan for Trojans and spy software and rarely find
anything.

I don’t know what I can do to improve this situation, your
ideas and questions are welcomed.

I goggled extensively and found a lot of questions but hardly
any answers.

Thanks
ayo






 
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      25th Jan 2006
i am having the same problem with my movies i make when i import to a cd they
come out choppy they stop maybe i check the setting on the camera and computer

"nononono" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This occurs only on my PC, not on stand-alone DVD player
> connected to TV. PC is beefy enough : XP home SP2 running on
> 2.5GHz P4, 1Gb memory, fast unfragmented SATA disks, HP home
> SP2, Geoforce 6600GT card…I had Matrox 450 before and the
> problem was the same. The problem is the same on both DVi
> connectors and on both monitors.
>
> This problem occurs on my own DVDs (created from my own DV
> footage) and on DVDs downloaded as DVD5 or DVD9 from web. Both
> Pal and NTSC.
>
> It makes no difference if the DVD is played from the DVD player
> inside PC (Pioneer 108) or as files played from disk. The
> chopping points are random, every second or two, and never at
> the same frames indicating a throughput or bottleneck problem.
> Sound doesn’t stutter. The choppiness looks like a brief pause
> in video playback, a fraction of a sec, and a picture than
> jumps a couple of frames to catch on. There are no artefacts.
> It is most visible when camera pans, horizontally or
> vertically.
>
> I have similar effect in PowerDVD ver 4 and 6, in MS Media
> Player ver 10 and Zoomplayer 4.03 professional but it is
> difficult to say if any of those is slightly better in that
> respect. The CPU load is modest, 20-30 % for PowerDVD, 15 to
> 20 % for MsMP10 and 6 to 12 % for Zoomplayer on top of regular
> 20% of other stuff. Memory consumption is small, the graph
> hardly moves, 50Mb for Powerdvd, 40Mb for MsMP10 and 45 for
> Zoomplayer. All this is regardless of the screen size. The
> problem stays the same if I increase the CPU priority to High
> (13) for those programs.
>
> I don’t have AV utilities running in the background stealing
> CPU or memory, and some notorious services are disabled.
> Programs are not allowed to use their automatic web updaters. I
> regularly scan for Trojans and spy software and rarely find
> anything.
>
> I don’t know what I can do to improve this situation, your
> ideas and questions are welcomed.
>
> I goggled extensively and found a lot of questions but hardly
> any answers.
>
> Thanks
> ayo
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

 
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=?Utf-8?B?Unlhbg==?=
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      26th Jan 2006
try updating your DVD decoder. or download the NVIDIA 30 day trial DVD
decoder to see if that is compatible.

"gerardo" wrote:

> i am having the same problem with my movies i make when i import to a cd they
> come out choppy they stop maybe i check the setting on the camera and computer
>
> "nononono" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This occurs only on my PC, not on stand-alone DVD player
> > connected to TV. PC is beefy enough : XP home SP2 running on
> > 2.5GHz P4, 1Gb memory, fast unfragmented SATA disks, HP home
> > SP2, Geoforce 6600GT card…I had Matrox 450 before and the
> > problem was the same. The problem is the same on both DVi
> > connectors and on both monitors.
> >
> > This problem occurs on my own DVDs (created from my own DV
> > footage) and on DVDs downloaded as DVD5 or DVD9 from web. Both
> > Pal and NTSC.
> >
> > It makes no difference if the DVD is played from the DVD player
> > inside PC (Pioneer 108) or as files played from disk. The
> > chopping points are random, every second or two, and never at
> > the same frames indicating a throughput or bottleneck problem.
> > Sound doesn’t stutter. The choppiness looks like a brief pause
> > in video playback, a fraction of a sec, and a picture than
> > jumps a couple of frames to catch on. There are no artefacts.
> > It is most visible when camera pans, horizontally or
> > vertically.
> >
> > I have similar effect in PowerDVD ver 4 and 6, in MS Media
> > Player ver 10 and Zoomplayer 4.03 professional but it is
> > difficult to say if any of those is slightly better in that
> > respect. The CPU load is modest, 20-30 % for PowerDVD, 15 to
> > 20 % for MsMP10 and 6 to 12 % for Zoomplayer on top of regular
> > 20% of other stuff. Memory consumption is small, the graph
> > hardly moves, 50Mb for Powerdvd, 40Mb for MsMP10 and 45 for
> > Zoomplayer. All this is regardless of the screen size. The
> > problem stays the same if I increase the CPU priority to High
> > (13) for those programs.
> >
> > I don’t have AV utilities running in the background stealing
> > CPU or memory, and some notorious services are disabled.
> > Programs are not allowed to use their automatic web updaters. I
> > regularly scan for Trojans and spy software and rarely find
> > anything.
> >
> > I don’t know what I can do to improve this situation, your
> > ideas and questions are welcomed.
> >
> > I goggled extensively and found a lot of questions but hardly
> > any answers.
> >
> > Thanks
> > ayo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

 
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Chuck
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      27th Jan 2006
Turn off windows file indexing. Is the PC providing any sort of network
services?
Finally, Is the PC's Hard Drive and the DVD drive on the same I/O cable?

"Ryan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7CEA990A-BE3F-41B5-B189-(E-Mail Removed)...
> try updating your DVD decoder. or download the NVIDIA 30 day trial DVD
> decoder to see if that is compatible.
>
> "gerardo" wrote:
>
> > i am having the same problem with my movies i make when i import to a cd

they
> > come out choppy they stop maybe i check the setting on the camera and

computer
> >
> > "nononono" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This occurs only on my PC, not on stand-alone DVD player
> > > connected to TV. PC is beefy enough : XP home SP2 running on
> > > 2.5GHz P4, 1Gb memory, fast unfragmented SATA disks, HP home
> > > SP2, Geoforce 6600GT card.I had Matrox 450 before and the
> > > problem was the same. The problem is the same on both DVi
> > > connectors and on both monitors.
> > >
> > > This problem occurs on my own DVDs (created from my own DV
> > > footage) and on DVDs downloaded as DVD5 or DVD9 from web. Both
> > > Pal and NTSC.
> > >
> > > It makes no difference if the DVD is played from the DVD player
> > > inside PC (Pioneer 108) or as files played from disk. The
> > > chopping points are random, every second or two, and never at
> > > the same frames indicating a throughput or bottleneck problem.
> > > Sound doesn't stutter. The choppiness looks like a brief pause
> > > in video playback, a fraction of a sec, and a picture than
> > > jumps a couple of frames to catch on. There are no artefacts.
> > > It is most visible when camera pans, horizontally or
> > > vertically.
> > >
> > > I have similar effect in PowerDVD ver 4 and 6, in MS Media
> > > Player ver 10 and Zoomplayer 4.03 professional but it is
> > > difficult to say if any of those is slightly better in that
> > > respect. The CPU load is modest, 20-30 % for PowerDVD, 15 to
> > > 20 % for MsMP10 and 6 to 12 % for Zoomplayer on top of regular
> > > 20% of other stuff. Memory consumption is small, the graph
> > > hardly moves, 50Mb for Powerdvd, 40Mb for MsMP10 and 45 for
> > > Zoomplayer. All this is regardless of the screen size. The
> > > problem stays the same if I increase the CPU priority to High
> > > (13) for those programs.
> > >
> > > I don't have AV utilities running in the background stealing
> > > CPU or memory, and some notorious services are disabled.
> > > Programs are not allowed to use their automatic web updaters. I
> > > regularly scan for Trojans and spy software and rarely find
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > I don't know what I can do to improve this situation, your
> > > ideas and questions are welcomed.
> > >
> > > I goggled extensively and found a lot of questions but hardly
> > > any answers.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > ayo
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >



 
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      31st Jan 2006
You know what, I came across a problem like this. Unfortunately after I
installed DivX software. It won't stop until I completely reformat.
Unfortunately I haven't found a fix. I just don't watch movies on my PC.
This is on mutiple machines including a couple of laptops so I know its not
my video card or version of XP. Same results on XP Home, Pro and even Media
Center. Even with different versions of DivX and Media Players like
Microsoft's, WinDVD and PowerDVD.

"Chuck" wrote:

> Turn off windows file indexing. Is the PC providing any sort of network
> services?
> Finally, Is the PC's Hard Drive and the DVD drive on the same I/O cable?
>
> "Ryan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:7CEA990A-BE3F-41B5-B189-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > try updating your DVD decoder. or download the NVIDIA 30 day trial DVD
> > decoder to see if that is compatible.
> >
> > "gerardo" wrote:
> >
> > > i am having the same problem with my movies i make when i import to a cd

> they
> > > come out choppy they stop maybe i check the setting on the camera and

> computer
> > >
> > > "nononono" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > This occurs only on my PC, not on stand-alone DVD player
> > > > connected to TV. PC is beefy enough : XP home SP2 running on
> > > > 2.5GHz P4, 1Gb memory, fast unfragmented SATA disks, HP home
> > > > SP2, Geoforce 6600GT card.I had Matrox 450 before and the
> > > > problem was the same. The problem is the same on both DVi
> > > > connectors and on both monitors.
> > > >
> > > > This problem occurs on my own DVDs (created from my own DV
> > > > footage) and on DVDs downloaded as DVD5 or DVD9 from web. Both
> > > > Pal and NTSC.
> > > >
> > > > It makes no difference if the DVD is played from the DVD player
> > > > inside PC (Pioneer 108) or as files played from disk. The
> > > > chopping points are random, every second or two, and never at
> > > > the same frames indicating a throughput or bottleneck problem.
> > > > Sound doesn't stutter. The choppiness looks like a brief pause
> > > > in video playback, a fraction of a sec, and a picture than
> > > > jumps a couple of frames to catch on. There are no artefacts.
> > > > It is most visible when camera pans, horizontally or
> > > > vertically.
> > > >
> > > > I have similar effect in PowerDVD ver 4 and 6, in MS Media
> > > > Player ver 10 and Zoomplayer 4.03 professional but it is
> > > > difficult to say if any of those is slightly better in that
> > > > respect. The CPU load is modest, 20-30 % for PowerDVD, 15 to
> > > > 20 % for MsMP10 and 6 to 12 % for Zoomplayer on top of regular
> > > > 20% of other stuff. Memory consumption is small, the graph
> > > > hardly moves, 50Mb for Powerdvd, 40Mb for MsMP10 and 45 for
> > > > Zoomplayer. All this is regardless of the screen size. The
> > > > problem stays the same if I increase the CPU priority to High
> > > > (13) for those programs.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have AV utilities running in the background stealing
> > > > CPU or memory, and some notorious services are disabled.
> > > > Programs are not allowed to use their automatic web updaters. I
> > > > regularly scan for Trojans and spy software and rarely find
> > > > anything.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know what I can do to improve this situation, your
> > > > ideas and questions are welcomed.
> > > >
> > > > I goggled extensively and found a lot of questions but hardly
> > > > any answers.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > ayo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >

>
>
>

 
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