Re: Stuttering problem watching live TV

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Media Player has always handled problems with out of sequence or a backlog
of undecoded or not yet displayed MPEG2 frames better than MCE by just
dropping single frames at a time so that you don't notice instead of
droppigng a group of frames at a time which is observed as stutter in MCE.
Any application that double buffered inputs such as MCE when receiving and
recoreding video input or some game programs when getting data off of the
HDD apparantly suffered from the AMD X2 driver bug of processing data out of
the proper time sequence.

"oldmotor" <oldmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wow! You're right. I was fixed and didn't know it. The new recordings
work
fine. I had thought since the old recording played fine with Windows
Media
Player that the were ok, but I guess not.

I should mention that I never did get the new AMD X2 drivers to report the
correct version from the device manager, but if you look at them from
add/remove programs the version numbers are the latest. Again kind of
strange.

Thanks for those who helped.
--
Mike


"JW" wrote:

If the recorded shows were recorded before you installed the updated AMD
drivers they will stutter but shows recorded after you installed the new
AMD
drivers should not.

"oldmotor" <oldmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks a ton. I should have caught that, it was pretty obvious once
you
pointed it out. So now after reinstalling everything....It's better.
Live
TV works fine, where before it stuttered. But recorded shows still
stutter
and lock up in less than 5 minutes using media center. Using Media
Player
they work fine. I've grabbed all the latest drivers and windows
updates.
The only thing that I could update is the NVIDIA software DVD decoder.
I'm
still using the 30 day free trial version which looks to be about a
month
behind the one you buy. I'm just wondering if there is a better
decoder
to
buy? Or do I need a different video card to work with MCE?

Video Card = ASUS EAX700-XL ATI driver 10/14/2005 ver 8.183.0.0
tuner card = Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE driver 12/14/2005 ver
2.0.35.23348
cpu = Athlon 64 X2 3800+ driver 1.2.2.2
NVIDIA nForce4 System Driver ver 666
NVIDIA software dvd decoder, 30 day free trial
motherboard = MSI K8N Neo 4

plus I shutoff the cpu cool stuff



--
Mike


"Gary Tsang" wrote:

Potentially.

Sounds like you have flash card readers that got assigned c:\

I know my brother had a lot of trouble with programs expecting to be
installed on the c:\ (when he hit this same issue). He got so fed up
that
he reinstalled fresh. If you choose to do this, disconnect the flash
card
reader first, before reinstalling. That way, it should work as
intended.

--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"oldmotor" <oldmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an dual core 3800 and the driver 1.2.2.0 dated 10/26/2004. I
downloaded from amd's site version 1.2.2.2 and tried to install it.
I
receive the error "The file c:\boot.ini could not be opened" then
the
install
continues and I select reboot at the end. After rebooting the
driver
installed is still 1.2.2.0 and my machine still stutters and
eventually
locks
up both on live tv and while playing recorded material.

Does this have to do with the stuff Xp is doing with installing
programs
on
a "phantom" h: drive? What should I try.

Thanks








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