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radius
14th November 2005, 05:03
Hi,
I installed a fresh win2k with sp4 / latest patches / directx 9 / latest catalyst and i'm experiencing some strange playblack issues, i'm getting some skips / speedup with any tip of video, i first tested using ffdshow as decoder then i tried xvid decoder alone before seeing it was happening with any video type, i tested with media player classic and original wmp, so when playing videos sometimes it skips and if i look in the video rendering status there's some skipped frames and the framerate is for exemple at 29fps while video is actually 25
I just don't know where it can come from :/ (videos play smoothly in xp)
Thanks for any help :)
Revgen
14th November 2005, 05:22
Have you tried VLC or Mplayer?
Mug Funky
14th November 2005, 05:24
maybe your splitter is playing silly buggers with you.

i've had too-fast playback on files with no audio, but i'm not sure about files with audio dropping to keep up with an arbitrary (wrong) framerate. MPC will tell you which filters are running. could be a good place to start looking.
radius
14th November 2005, 05:50
Hi,
looks like it's not a drop frame problem as i just looked at the "statistics" in wmp (6.4) and "frames skipped" don't move from 0 but i can see the framerate moving from the original 25 to near 29 when a skip occurs, then it reduces when there's no skip and increase when there's another one.
it's actually using normal "default" decoders, it showed ffdshow decoder when using ffdshow too
http://r4dius.free.fr/filters.gif

Btw i've not tested vlc nor mplayer as it's the same on mpc and wmp i think it's not a player issue, i'm thinking it may be something with directx but i'm not sure

maybe your splitter is playing silly buggers with you.

i've had too-fast playback on files with no audio, but i'm not sure about files with audio dropping to keep up with an arbitrary (wrong) framerate. MPC will tell you which filters are running. could be a good place to start looking.
Revgen
14th November 2005, 07:51
You could try rolling back DirectX to an earlier version with this tool. (http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=626)

I've never used it myself so I can't say for sure if it's safe.
CWR03
14th November 2005, 08:11
You might make sure all your motherboard drivers are installed and up-to-date. Just installing Windows doesn't always install optimal hardware drivers.