Laggy video/audio
XanthouS
Appleton, WI
Alright, I've been having this problem for a long, long time now. I've finally resorted to asking random people on the net for help. Here goes:
Every time I attempt to watch a large .AVI file (in any media program I use, DivX, WMP, ATI File Player) my video and audio both lag at the same moment every few seconds. If it's a smaller file I can cure this by letting the entire video play through once (as it laggs) and then watch it a second time. The second time it is usually fine.
Here are my system specs:
Mobo - Soyo Dragon Ultra KT333 Black
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Vid Card - ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 128MB
HDD - Western Digital 120GB 8MB Cache
RAM - Corsair 512MB DDR PC2700
My HDD is split in two partitions, one for apps (30 megs) and one for media (90 megs). The video lags while watching files on either partition. I have updated all of my drivers and all of ym codecs (DivX, XviD, WMP Encoder).
I have noticed, while watching the Task Manager, that when I am playing these files 70-100% of my CPU is being used. This doesn't seem right that a video would puch my CPU to its limits, especially when I have friends with equal or lesser processors that watch the same videos fine.
Every time I attempt to watch a large .AVI file (in any media program I use, DivX, WMP, ATI File Player) my video and audio both lag at the same moment every few seconds. If it's a smaller file I can cure this by letting the entire video play through once (as it laggs) and then watch it a second time. The second time it is usually fine.
Here are my system specs:
Mobo - Soyo Dragon Ultra KT333 Black
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Vid Card - ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 128MB
HDD - Western Digital 120GB 8MB Cache
RAM - Corsair 512MB DDR PC2700
My HDD is split in two partitions, one for apps (30 megs) and one for media (90 megs). The video lags while watching files on either partition. I have updated all of my drivers and all of ym codecs (DivX, XviD, WMP Encoder).
I have noticed, while watching the Task Manager, that when I am playing these files 70-100% of my CPU is being used. This doesn't seem right that a video would puch my CPU to its limits, especially when I have friends with equal or lesser processors that watch the same videos fine.
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check this out.. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/54237
As for your problem not sure you've got all the basics covered and I'm running similar specs and never have a problem unless I open something up then I may get the occasional jitter.
Does this happen only with large .AVI files or do large mpeg's do the same, how bout smaller files of the same variety?
Next thing to check have you tried playing it with no internet connection openning ie modem shut off and not connected? The reason I ask is my laptop (which is slower then that machine) normally plays large files fine however I notice from time to time it'd jitter. I figured out the problem was that my wireless card was constanly checking to see if it had a network connection which normally isn't the problem if it's connected. But if it wasn't connected (say at my cottage). It would lag the laptop a bit as it would try for a long time to connect before giving it up. This checking was causing the jitter. So I'd kill the wireless card and the problem would end.