Re: Random Stutter

No, I haven't seen the GUI act like what you are describing. Sounds like the
ATI is a bad choice for a graphics card - I've read about a lot of problems
on this forum. I'm a nVidia fan myself - 7000GT series or better is a good
place to start.

"Mike" wrote:

I'm still trying to figure this out, unfortunately I do not have an AMD setup
laying around to tinker with. Terrman, are you getting slow response in the
media center GUI as well? I notice that after a while, the menu is extremely
slow, often taking several seconds to respond to the push of a button. I
read somewhere that it may have something to do with the ATI chipset and the
DVI signal when turning off the TV. It is fast when I shrink to a window,
but is slow on full screen mode. A reboot works for a day or two.

I never had any of these problems with XP, and on a much slower system.

"Terrman" wrote:

Sure enough, replacing the Intel motherboard with the Asus P5LD2 has
eliminated my problem. Interesting thing is that I could reproduce the choppy
video I'd also seen with the Intel board by setting up the Asus to treat the
SATA interface as IDE - basically throttling back the SATA to slower IDE
speeds.

If this is any indication, the Intel board is doing a bad job at SATA. That
would explain a lot. No more Intel motherboards for me...

Also, I recommend disabling automatic updates in Vista (not sure in XP).
I've found that Vista tends to install updates whenever it feels the need
despite the time settings one has specified. Did it the other night during
Hell's Kitchen - saw it in the event log -and it caused quite a bit of
stutter.





"Mike" wrote:

I have this same problem and its really friggin annoying. Its like the video
skips a frame every so often. It is with live, recorded and timeshifted tv.
I have tried everything (I think) to correct this including updating BIOS,
video and audio drivers, all Windows updates even disabling Superfetch and
drive indexing.

One odd thing is this only seems to happen when MCE is fullscreen. When it
is windowed it never happens. Also, sometines navigation is very slow within
Media Center, taking several seconds to respond to a press of a button on the
remote, and when shrunk to a window it works just fine.

This NEVER happened on my old system, which was an Athlon 1200, 512mb ram,
Nvidia 6200, Hauppage PVR-150, 80gb IDE hard drive running XP-MCE. There was
never a stutter on live or recorded tv on this system. Even when doing other
things (and taxing the processor) during recording the video came out smooth.

My new system has this problem with an Intel E2160 (1.8g dual core), ABIT
F-I90HD MOBO with integrated X1250 HDMI graphics, 2gb ddr2-800 ram, 500gb
SATA II drive and an Avermedia M870 NTSC/ATSC tuner card runnung Vista MCE.
I have had Task Manager and Resource Monitor open during the "stutters" and
there is no indication of any hardware even coming close to 100%, in fact I
can record an HDTV program and an SD analog program at the same time with
about 40% cpu.

If anyone has any solution to this (Including Microsoft) please let us know.
I would hate to go back to XP.

"Terrman" wrote:

Doesn't look like updating the audio or the chipset drivers helped the
situation any, I still have this very intermintent stutter. And now I 'm
seeing what can be best discribed as jerkyness on prerecorded video. That is
, it sort of jerks from movement to movement instead of smoothly moving. This
doesn't seem to happen very often, but when it does its throughout the entire
video.

Werid.

"JW" wrote:

I am not aware of a progress logger but if you have the task manager
performance graph displayed you can minimize it and call it up as soon as
the problem occurs. The graph itself appears to display the utilization for
about the last minute.
"Terrman" <Terrman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:77A76FAC-0175-45AB-9E3D-433DD1E9229B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm not sure on the autio drivers - the Intel site is showing drivers
dated
3/18/07. I'll check tonight at home and confirm.

I wish I knew on the CPU utilization, but the problem is I don't know when
its going to happen so its pretty tough to catch it. Is there some sort of
CPU/process logger that could be used?

"JW" wrote:

Are the Vista drivers for your audio card/chip also up to date?
What is the CPU utilization when the problem occurs?

"Terrman" <Terrman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2F7AB26C-58AB-4909-BECC-BBAB6E9A94EB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I experience random stuttering on recorded and live TV playback. By
random
I
mean once about every hour or two. The stutter lasts about 2 to 3
seconds,
freezing the video and audio. The systems recovers and it is repeatable
if
replayed. DVD recordings or direct DVD plays do not experience this.

My system is running Vista Ultimate on a 3.0ghz Intel MoBo with 1.5gb
of
RAM. The OS is installed a 80gb drive and recording in on a 500gb
drive.
DVD
recordings are on 250gb drives. All are SATA. The video card is a
7600GT.
I'm
using the Vista built-in decoder.

This is very puzzling as my video/audio streams are perfect otherwise.
High
performance drives with acceleration turned on and daily defragging has
assured this much. Also not that is nothing else going on in the
machine -
no
Defender (It's been disabled), antivirus, or anything.

Any ideas - I'm out.


.