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Flickering/stuttering image every second/frame??
Greetings!
When I watch a movie from my DVD player or from a downloaded film playing off the HD, there is a "flicker", a "stutter" (???..) every second, as if a frame was missing. I had this problem about a year ago and managed to find a cure, which I have now totally forgotten. How did I do it then???? Does this ring a bell with any of you? K7S5A motherboard, GeForce2 MX400 (driver 5.2.1.6), Athlon XP2100, 512Megs Ram, Win2K sp4, monitor refresh 60hz I make a point of updating the whole system regularly. Thanks for any insight! :-) Michel |
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Try using the 45.23 driver and see if that doesn't fix it.
-- DaveW "Michel" wrote in message ... Greetings! When I watch a movie from my DVD player or from a downloaded film playing off the HD, there is a "flicker", a "stutter" (???..) every second, as if a frame was missing. I had this problem about a year ago and managed to find a cure, which I have now totally forgotten. How did I do it then???? Does this ring a bell with any of you? K7S5A motherboard, GeForce2 MX400 (driver 5.2.1.6), Athlon XP2100, 512Megs Ram, Win2K sp4, monitor refresh 60hz I make a point of updating the whole system regularly. Thanks for any insight! :-) Michel |
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DaveW wrote:
Try using the 45.23 driver and see if that doesn't fix it. Well, the plot thickens (or lightens up depending on how you want to look at this!). After uninstalling 5.2.1.6 and cleaning out further remnants with DriverCleaner, I installed 45.23 as you suggested. The result: nice and smooth glitch-free playing of DVDs on the Sony DDU1621 (yeah!!!!!), but NO improvement when playing AVI/MPGs from the HDD. Jumps, glitches and "stutters" once every second as before! :-( I also uninstalled a few things (iomegaware, iconoid, winfax,...) and reverted to Media Player 6.4 just to see and try to do something!! Whether 45.23, or the uninstalling, or a combination of both helped with the DVD half of the problem, I don't know! Now what should I do about playing AVI/MPGs from the HDD?? Thanks!! :-) Michel |
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Michel wrote:
DaveW wrote: Try using the 45.23 driver and see if that doesn't fix it. Well, the plot thickens (or lightens up depending on how you want to look at this!). After uninstalling 5.2.1.6 and cleaning out further remnants with DriverCleaner, I installed 45.23 as you suggested. The result: nice and smooth glitch-free playing of DVDs on the Sony DDU1621 (yeah!!!!!), but NO improvement when playing AVI/MPGs from the HDD. Jumps, glitches and "stutters" once every second as before! :-( I also uninstalled a few things (iomegaware, iconoid, winfax,...) and reverted to Media Player 6.4 just to see and try to do something!! Whether 45.23, or the uninstalling, or a combination of both helped with the DVD half of the problem, I don't know! Now what should I do about playing AVI/MPGs from the HDD?? Thanks!! :-) Check that your HDD isn't running in PIO mode? -- ~misfit~ |
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~misfit~ wrote:
Michel wrote: Now what should I do about playing AVI/MPGs from the HDD?? Thanks!! :-) Check that your HDD isn't running in PIO mode? -- ~misfit~ Thanks for the suggestion. :-) Now, pardon my ignorance, but how do I do that on Win2K, sp4... ?? :-| Michel |
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Michel wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: Michel wrote: Now what should I do about playing AVI/MPGs from the HDD?? Thanks!! :-) Check that your HDD isn't running in PIO mode? -- ~misfit~ Thanks for the suggestion. :-) Now, pardon my ignorance, but how do I do that on Win2K, sp4... ?? :-| Michel OK, I figured it out: all HDDs in Ultra DMA mode. No PIO. DVDs play fine without a glitch. AVI/MPGs played from any HDD "jump" and "stutter" ever second still!!! AAArrgghh!!! Michel |
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Why are using PowerDVD that software decoder, and WinDVD are both garbage
decoders. You're video card is a bit old too. For just a little bit of money you can upgrade to the GeForce 4MX card line, and experience better DVD playback because those cards have DVD decoding built into their hardware. But if you're not look for an upgrade you can always try Sonic's DVD Decoder, also bundled with the Sonic CinePlayer. That's the best software DVD decoder available using less CPU processing, and performing better than any other software decoder and even some hardware decoders. |
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Captain EO wrote:
Why are using PowerDVD that software decoder, and WinDVD are both garbage decoders. You're video card is a bit old too. For just a little bit of money you can upgrade to the GeForce 4MX card line, and experience better DVD playback because those cards have DVD decoding built into their hardware. Well, guess what? I upgraded to a FX5200 (unfortunately before reading all the bad opinions about that card in this NG!), and whether or not it's what I needed, DVDs now play fine on my system. :-) What glitches, skips and stutters still are AVI/MPGs played straight from HDD! :-( But if you're not look for an upgrade you can always try Sonic's DVD Decoder, also bundled with the Sonic CinePlayer. That's the best software DVD decoder available using less CPU processing, and performing better than any other software decoder and even some hardware decoders. I'll check it out, thanks for the info! Michel |
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"K7S5A motherboard, GeForce2 MX400 (driver 5.2.1.6), Athlon XP2100,
512Megs Ram, Win2K sp4, monitor refresh 60hz I make a point of updating the whole system regularly. Thanks for any insight! :-) Michel" ************************************************** ************************** ********** Pardon my ignorance, but isn't a monitor refresh rate of only 60hz a little low? I have to keep mine at 100 or it looks like ****. Just curious. ChicagoDave |
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ChicagoDave wrote:
"K7S5A motherboard, GeForce2 MX400 (driver 5.2.1.6), Athlon XP2100, 512Megs Ram, Win2K sp4, monitor refresh 60hz I make a point of updating the whole system regularly. Thanks for any insight! :-) Michel" ************************************************** ************************** ********** Pardon my ignorance, but isn't a monitor refresh rate of only 60hz a little low? I have to keep mine at 100 or it looks like ****. Just curious. ChicagoDave Well, I had it at 85hz for a while until I realized that the high-pitch whine I was hearing was not coming from next door but from the sreen. So I asked around and was told 60hz was good. So it was. Yet, I have it up to 75hz now. Looks fine so far, no whine... ;-) It's a "Futura"!!! I bet not many of you know that brand!!!! :-) ;-) |
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