MP10 skips&jumps but all the other apps play files FINE-ideas?

[Guest]

I run a lot of audio and video apps on this machine
-recently, I'm not sure when exactly, I started getting bad skipping/jumping
on playback of audio and video files from my local HDDs.
All the other applications are FINE, no problems.

It sounds like buffer under-runs but I don't know where to configure that
stuff for the microsoft player.

Media Player 9 was doing it , I upgraded to MP10 but no change in the problem.

..wav files (44.1kHz stereo 16bit) and pal format DV .AVI files both produce
TERRIBLE glitching, but only with media player, so I know that the files
arent corrupt, the HDD bandwidth is fine, the audio/graphics devices are
fine, the wires are fine, it's all FINE, except the default settings used by
media player....

any thoughts?

its XP at home SP2 + current updates, 1.9GHZ athlon, 1Gbyte ram, two SATA HDDs
no hardware conflicts.

thanks for your time

 

[Guest]

Further details:-
This only happens when playing through the SoundMAX integrated audio chipset
on the motherboard.
I've updates the soundchip drivers to the latest, no diffrence,
Its running directx9.0c
Motherboard manufacturer has no notices about the problem,
Motherboard is a few years old now.
The skipping ONLY occurs with media player when playing files from the C:
drive, through this device. other apps are all FINE.
-A problematic file copied/moved to another drive plays fine, I've done a
Full defrag and checkdisc, turned off anti-virus etc no effect,

so, if anybody can tell me how to set buffer size or configure Media Player
10 to work properly then I'd be grateful !

 

[Guest]

Sounds like you have bad sectors on your "C" drive and the music is
located there. You state that copy/moving them to another drive they play
fine.
After you have moved the files run CHKDSK /F to possibly fix the errors.

 

[Guest]

That'd make sense if the other applications didnt play the same files from
the C: drive flawlessly. ( Cubase, cool edit, wavelab, adobe premier etc).
It's ONLY media player that has this problem, all other audio/video apps on
the machine play the exact same files FINE, without having to move them first!
Thanks anyway, - I did do a checkdisk recently and its just been freshly
defragged without changing the situation at all.
Thanks very much for your time, I'm still interested in any way of setting
media players buffer size when working from the HDD, as the other apps that
work fine all allow me to specify buffer size and so control the latency.
-Thanks.