slow movies

[Widow Twankey]

I've got 256mb of ram, XP Pro and a 2.2Ghz CPU.

I find videos on DVD seem to step through with slight but definite steps.

I also find that on some videoclips that the sound vanishes for seconds at a
time and the video jerks about a lot. It does it in different places which
makes me suspect something's eating CPU time.

I checked in Task Manager and there are only programs there that don't use
much CPU time. I checked processes under CPU usage and found something
called "system Idle Process" that seems to use a lot of CPU time.

Any suggestions?

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Widow Twankey

Now 10% Twankier than ever

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

I've got 256mb of ram, XP Pro and a 2.2Ghz CPU.

I find videos on DVD seem to step through with slight but definite
steps.

I also find that on some videoclips that the sound vanishes for
seconds at a time and the video jerks about a lot. It does it in
different places which makes me suspect something's eating CPU time.

I checked in Task Manager and there are only programs there that
don't use much CPU time. I checked processes under CPU usage and
found something called "system Idle Process" that seems to use a lot
of CPU time.

Any suggestions?

The System Idle Process is the amount of CPU power that is available NOT
being used.

Which programs are you using to run the video clicps and DVD's? Have you
checked for possible updates to these programs?



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[Guest]

ye 256mb ram, should be ok, though you will get better performance with at least 512, also Widow , your graphics card has a big say in this, do you know what card you have and how much video memory it has? ..
what is you your processor, is it AMD, Celeron, Pentium? ..
rob

 

[Widow Twankey]

It's an AMD 2.2Ghz XP CPU
I have 256MB DDR
And a Gigabyte K7 Triton Motherboard (GA-7VKMP-P) with onboard sound,
graphics and LAN.

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Yours

Widow Twankey

Now 10% Twankier than ever

ye 256mb ram, should be ok, though you will get better performance with at

least 512, also Widow , your graphics card has a big say in this, do you
know what card you have and how much video memory it has? ..