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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: enigman on January 24, 2008, 03:12:20 am

Title: Playback stutters when ripping CD
Post by: enigman on January 24, 2008, 03:12:20 am

I've got a strange problem with MC:

When ripping CDs in MC, playback will stutter and "slow down" - it's a strange effect, it's as if the playback is starting and stopping many times per second, creating a slowed down effect, which will slow down and speed up during the course of playback.

The strange thing is that when ripping tracks in Windows Media Player I do not have this problem.

A few details which might be helpful to debug:

Using build 404
Playback both within and outside of MC is impacted.
Occurs with both normal and secure ripping modes, as well as on-the-fly encoding vs post rip encoding
CPU usage is high, but not maxed out

Thanks!

Title: Re: Playback stutters when ripping CD
Post by: modelmaker on January 24, 2008, 04:17:31 am

Please goto MC Help>System Info and paste that in your next post.

Title: Re: Playback stutters when ripping CD
Post by: johnnyboy on January 24, 2008, 07:47:25 am

I have this too sometimes.
Pretty sure MC is just getting hung on hard to read parts and its effecting playback.
Always figured it was normal.

Title: Re: Playback stutters when ripping CD
Post by: enigman on January 24, 2008, 12:48:27 pm

Here's my system info
It's drive D (the other one is just a virtual drive)
It seems to happen all the time, regardless of what condition the CD is in.

Thanks!


Media Center Registered 12.0.404 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Unknown 2398 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 2096 MB, Free - 1467 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S162L  Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive F:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S162L   Addr: 0:0:0  Speed:4  MaxSpeed:4  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /

Portable Device Info
  Removed devices:


Interface Plugins:
  last.fm (Active)
  Library Server (Active)
  TiVo Server (Active)
  UPnP Server (Active)
  AudioScrobbler