Re: Choppy DVD Playback
From: JohnTilber (w2knotebookuser_at_eldredn.com)
Date: 03/02/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:23:45 -0400
I was disappointed to see that you did not receive any responses to this
well-written post. I too am suddenly experiencing choppy MPEG-2 playback
(video/audio) in Windows Media Player and Cyberlink PowerProducer (when
previewing video in a DVD project). CPU usage fluctuates near 100%.
MPEG-2 video plays fine in Cyberlink PowerDVD. WMP and PowerProducer play
and preview MPEG-1 video without problems. I'm thinking it's a codec issue
too as I have reinstalled and updated my video and audio drivers multiple
times without change.
"CapCity" <sgomori@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e01pfnM9DHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Not sure if this is the right ng for this, but hopefully someone here has
> either cured something similar or can help out.
>
> For several months I've been able to play DVDs on my computer, using
> PowerDVD 5, with no problems. Since then, I've been doing some research on
> backing up DVDs and I've downloaded some tools to help with that: DVD
> Decrypter, DVDStripper, MenuEdit and IfoEdit. They seemed to work great
but
> I noticed the "Preview" feature in DVDStripper gave me very choppy play
and
> no audio. At first I figured that's how the preview worked (even though it
> used PowerDVD) so I went ahead and had DVDStripper process the files. I
then
> tried to play the rocessed movie from the hard drive using PowerDVD and it
> was choppy and audio free. So I figured the processed movie was hosed.
> Eventually I tried to play the disk from the DVD-ROM drive with PowerDVD,
as
> I had several times before, and now it was choppy and audio-free. So,
> obviously, something got whacked with the computer.
>
> I have installed no other software in this timeframe. If it matters, I'm
> running XP SP1 with 1GB RAM and a P4 2.4. I have a 16x MadDog DVD-ROM and
a
> TDK 440 dual format DVD burner (playback is the same using the burner)
which
> are alone on separate IDEs. As I said, playback was great up until
recently,
> so the machine can handle it.
>
> I tried the XP troubleshooting wizard and Google, but was not able to find
> anything useful. Both IDE controllers have "DMA if available" set and the
> video (nVidea Ti 4200) drivers are up to date.
>
> I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling PowerDVD.
>
> I do not know much about codecs but that's obviously something that could
be
> the culprit. The utilities I've added do not seem to have their own codecs
> but I am not sure. I found a utility called GSpot which looks for codecs
on
> the system. It reported something like 24 video codecs on my machine,
which
> seems high. I have yet been able to determine which codecs would actually
> get used for playback. I also do not know which ones I would want to have
> used and how to change it if necessary.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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