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JackTheDVDRipper
29th April 2004, 10:19
Hi,

Here's the story. I had an Athlon 1333/64MB Asus Geforce 3 Deluxe Original/Gametheatre XP/MSI K266pro M-Board/2x 20GB Hardisks @5200rpm I think one is 7200rpm/512DDR RAM/ Asus 522452 CDRW/ pioneer DVD rom/ ext. 120GB ICE CUBE USB 2/ Ultra DMA 133 IDE

I always had good smooth playback of MPEG-4 files. Until recently, the movies play smooth for around 3 minutes then all of the sudden the video frame freezes for half a second or more and then catches up to the audio in a quick burst. Sorta CPU or RAM lag.

Ok, so I didn't bother myself too much about it since I was going to do an upgrade in a week anywhere. So I got my upgrade.

GA-K8N PRO M-BOARD, Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB DDR400 PC3200, 160GB Matrox SATA 150 HDD, new case


from the old system I kept :
I kept the Asus Geforce 3 Deluxe Original, Pioneer DVD rom, Asus 522452 CDRW and I also kept the 39pin IDE cable for the CDRW and DVD-ROM connected to IDE2. I also kept one Western Digital 20GB conected to IDE1 via a seperate new IDE cable. With my new SATA hardisk connected SAT0 conenction on the mainboard.

Ok so I switch on my brand new computer, triple check the plugs, ide cables etc. everything's in firmly etc.

I Installed Gordianknot codec pack with ffdshow and everything else, rip pack/ divx 5.1.1/xvid all newest versions of the software./MaCfee professional viruscan/emule o.42e/


I play my different xvid/divx/DVD's files and what do I get ! Again the exact same CPU hick-ups ! Only this time it's not half a second but more like 1/5th of a second. Still noticeble thought.

So I change the process priority of Windows media player and wammo it plays perfectly at above high priority setting. But the bloody thing is I have to set it over again every time I start a new session.

Also what kind of athlon 64 3200 @ 2.2Ghz can't play mpeg4/dvd video at normal priority smoothly !!! ???? I am upset it's a new system and I thought it would never have problems with video playback of any kind.


What is really causing this ? Any Idea ?

avih
29th April 2004, 11:13
what's going on? you double post after a week, after people have reponded to your previous thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74670)????

if you want to continue your previous thread, do that, if you think it should be moved, then ask for it, but don't post the same question again.

since you're new here, i'll forgive you. next time it's a strike.