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[Krazykanuck]

I have uTorrent running seeding some distros I downloaded this past weekend.
When it is running MC has all kinds of playback problems garbling, skipping etc.
If I look in task manager it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything.
I can run resource hogs like photoshop and MC has no problems with them
Just wondering what might be MC's issue with it so I can maybe look at configuration changes to either MC or uTorrent.

[Matt]

It may be a hardware thing like an IRQ / latency issue between the soundcard and NIC.

You could increase the output buffering or play with other output modes in MC. (Options > Playback)

[Krazykanuck]

I played with the various output modes and buffering but nothing seemed to change.
It happens with wav, mp3 and ape.
WMP doen't have the issue so I don't think it is a hardware/driver issue.
MC just doesn't like uTorrent at some level.

I'll keep playing. Fortunately I don't uTorrent that much so it's not a big problem. It's just interesting that there is any issue at all since they are doing two completely different tasks utilizing different hardware and with a gig of memory resources don't seem to be the issue.

[marko]

your torrent application could well be hogging all your available upstream bandwidth.

This would mean that when MC is doing its internet related stuff, podcasts?, it could falter while it waits for the replies from the remote servers to fight their way through all that uTorrent chatter. Are there any bandwidth limiting options in uTorrent? If there are, then this shot-in-the-dark theory of mine should be easily tested.

[hit_ny]

What if the media that MC is playing is on a different drive compared to the one utorrent is writing to ?

[Krazykanuck]

Thanks for the replies.

I am just playing files from disk so if MC is trying to do internet related stuff I am not sure what it would be. I could understand if I was listening to podcasts or internet radio.
I will play with the bandwidth and connection options to see if it has any effect.

My music is contained on a dedicated drive so is separate from uTorrent. uTorrent is also only seeding at this point so should not be writing anything to disk I don't think.

Well off to work, I will report back later after I have tested.

[Matt]

I can't imagine it's a disk or CPU issue unless you have a drive is PIO mode or something.

A modern computer should be basically unskippable while playing with MC -- even if you're gaming or doing some other heavy task.

Does anyone else use uTorrent that could see if it could somehow be a software conflict?

Thanks.

[GHammer]

I run utorrent and see no untoward behavior.