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Noel42

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Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« on: August 07, 2006, 04:12:47 pm »
When I play DVDs in MC, they get to a certain point, than stutter as if in 1x forward. I am also unable to use MC to burn a CD, it gets to the 4th or 5th song and than says it is full. I am still useing the 30 day free trial, and do not want to buy until I know the software will work.
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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2006, 04:26:09 pm »
It's possible that other software (Virus checker, etc) is interfering.  It's also possible that the drive isn't 100%.

Please try a search here and the links to problems in the FAQ on this board.
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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2006, 04:35:43 pm »
After a year of stutter free DVD playback I am suddenly seeing the same thing with Purevideo. Lately been trying to isolate driver, hardware problem, but tonight I am testing with WMP. Will report back. It is similar behavior to when NOD32 AV kicks in w/ 100% cpu resources.

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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2006, 04:58:59 pm »
You may want to also check the contents of this recent thread:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=35019.0

Bad stuttering is likely caused by hardware (does it happen with other applications too?), but it's possible that it's some bad DirectShow filters.
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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2006, 06:22:33 pm »
Quote from: Doctor Cilantro on August 07, 2006, 04:35:43 pm
After a year of stutter free DVD playback I am suddenly seeing the same thing with Purevideo.
What has changed?  Any new software?  Windows updates?
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Noel42

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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2006, 06:58:08 pm »
It could be a bad drive, the movie I wanted to play was Serenity, it did fine the 1st time but either the drive has problems or something haywire with other programs. I need to back up my system and than reinstall MC. I would have no trouble purchasing it, but I want to know if it works first. I really need to make some CD's though. I will try and than update if I get that feaure going, thanks for the help.
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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2006, 07:09:29 pm »
I initially didn't even consider MC as I had updated my Nvidia display drivers, but actually remembered I installed them & the newest Purevideo decoder as an attempted remedy.

I'll bet the card is crapping out but I do want to try to play Apocalypse Now for about 2 hours w/ WMP and check for stutter.

The last movie I tested with was loaded on a virtual drive w/ Daemon tools so I ruled out drive failure....

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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2006, 04:44:18 pm »
Can you use the Microsoft Windows XP Decoder Checkup Tool to tell us which decoder is assigned as the primary fopr your system and the version.

I am going to roll back to pre 91.xx Nvidia Forceware drivers. I 'm using a 6600, It seemed like a hardware issue the other night as the stutter got progressively worse and worse. I tried pausing and resuming to no avail BUT the last few times I have let a DVD play for a while, entered room to stuttering, activate my mouse (move it around), and the stuttering stops....totally bizzarre as I simply could get the stuttering to stop during an actuall movie viewing.

Stuttering occurring in both WMP & MC, but only after a while. I could try to use FFDSHOW to do decoding and see if using CPU instead of GPU would make a difference; I notice 75-80% CPU load with FFDSHOW as opposed to 25% CPU load with Nvidia Purevideo which loads up the GPU. This is a 6600 Gigabyte passively cooled card so I wonder if its getting way too hot; this may be a good test....or not.

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Re: Playing DVDs/ Burning CDs
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2006, 02:16:44 pm »
I will try to get a new burner, see if thats the problem, but I really think it is the MC software that has problems. Will update after the weekend and see.
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