Sound skip

[CzechRipper]

I have a serious problem. Anytime I play any media (divx, VCD, DVD, MP3...)

About once or twice a minute, a couple of seconds are skipped and then it works fine. On vids (even DVD), there is this problem; but what's weirder is that the video part is also skipped : after the skip, the video isn't asynched !

Can you help me ? I tried updating my audio card drivers, unistalling softwae ... NOTHING WORKS, plz help me

Thx

[OvERaCiD23]

Is this only happening from your CD/DVD drive, or from the hard drive as well?
What media player are you using? Maybe try some different players.
Check your hardware acceleration on your video card.
Check your hardware acceleration on you sound card.
Ensure DMA is enabled on all your IDE devices.
Ensure all your drivers are updated from the device manufacturer, not Microsoft's drivers.
Check the audio and video codecs. Uninstall any you are not using, and reinstall only the ones you do use.

Hopefully one of these will solve your issue.

[CzechRipper]

It's happenig from my HD, CD, DVD, external HD.
It happens with any player : PowerDVD, WMP9, WMP 6.4, ZoomPlayer ...
What do you mean by :
Check your hardware acceleration on your video card.
Check your hardware acceleration on you sound card.
How do I do that ?

DMA is enabled on all of my IDE devices.

I'll try to update the drivers but I don't understand why it sould help because I used Microsoft drivers for a long time (I just intalled XP and all of my stuuff worked OK so I needn't update any driver)

I'll also try the codec thing.

Thank you.

[CzechRipper]

UP

nswer some1 plz

[TelemachusMH]

To set the hardware acceleration on your audio card, go to Control Panel, open "Sounds and Mulimedia", go to the "Audio" tab and click on the advanced button under "Sound Playback". Then there is a "Performance" tab that has the settings you want. (btw ... this is for Win2000 it may be different if you're running something else, but it should be similar.)

I would like to know how much RAM you have, what may be happening is that Windows is doing some fairly major page swapping, which would stall the computer for a sec. You might try closing all the programs you can before running the video and see if that makes a difference.

TelemachusMH

I just saw that your running XP, and checked where the settings were, the only difference is that in the Control Panel, you want to click "Sounds and Audio Devices" instead of "Sounds and Multimedia".