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IZON
07-07-04, 07:49 PM
I get jerky visual and audio playback whenever I try to play stored mpegs on my rig, some of the mpegs are on a business software pkg, the others are part of a video editing program. However, if I run the same files under Winamp, the playback is fine. I've tried changing every setting that I can think of. So far I've updated the gfx card drivers to Cat 4.3, messed around with the DMA, reduced the gfx acceleration, switched off all system tray programs but the jerky playback remains. I just can't seem to isolate the source of the problem. Does anyone else have an idea?
Chum
07-08-04, 12:50 AM
See you have dual OS's (win98 and XP) does it happen with both?
stratcatprowlin
07-08-04, 12:55 AM
Usually DMA is the solution to that but Sometimes a certain media player will play the files fine and the rest wont.Same thing happened to me.
Just use the player that works.No one could figure it out here for me.
IZON
07-08-04, 01:59 AM
See you have dual OS's (win98 and XP) does it happen with both?

actually, I ditched XP a while back, I should update that sig.
IZON
07-08-04, 02:11 AM
Just use the player that works.No one could figure it out here for me.

For my own personal use I'd be happy just to activate Winamp each time, unfortunately I've committed myself to editing a video project I recorded on a DV cam. All the editing needs to be done within an editing software pkg (Image Mixer) and I can't commit jerky playback to CD or DVD.
stratcatprowlin
07-08-04, 12:06 PM
Yeah that definitely wont work then!
The only things I can think of are Wrong DMA settings,cpu speed lacking or lack of memory.But you seem to have those bases covered.Sorry,IM stumped.
IZON
07-08-04, 12:25 PM
no problem stratcatprowlin, it seems to be common problem, even with XP.
DarkMatter13
07-08-04, 12:41 PM
IRQ conflict??
stratcatprowlin
07-08-04, 02:24 PM
IRQ conflict??

In my case there was no IRQ conflicts.
IZON
07-08-04, 05:05 PM
I'll check, but I'm pretty sure the firewire port has no IRQ issues

I was wondering, if I went out and bought a more advanced/powerful software editing pkg, would the drivers in that pkg be enough to override the drivers causing this problem? I know it's a long shot, but I'm starting to get desperate. :bang head