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[hanguker]

Hey everyone,

I've been having a small but really annoying problem when I playback downloaded videos/tvshows/etc. Quite often the video/audio stutters and jerks and gets plain annoying (especially trying to watch surv---vi---vo--or). It's kinda like a skipping DVD...I guess.

Thing is, I have a fairly competent computer. It's 2.8Ghz Pentium IV. I've got an Nvidia 6600GT 128MB card, and one Gig of of DDR2 PC memory. I've also got the latest Klite codec pack. I'm using WMP11. There is no reason I can see for the jerkiness of playback.

However, I have slightly dated Nvidia drivers 41.89. I can't upgrade because I get a b/w picture on my TV output for some reason with anything more recent. I've also got a fair amount of background programs running, but I still have plenty of resident memory available (600 Megs at any one time).

Any ideas? Please help, its driving me nuts.

Cheers.

[Thunndarr]

Defrag the hard drive?

[hanguker]

Yes, I defrag automatically, everyday. I don't think that's the problem. Thanks, though.

[Thunndarr]

Time for some basic troubleshooting then.

Play back a file that you've burned to a disk. Does it stutter? If no, then it's the hard drive. If yes, continue on.

Update the drivers: I know you said that you don't want to updage because the TV output is messed up, but when you say your drivers are "slightly" outdated....Well, you said you were using 41.89. I don't know if they changed the numbering system or if you made a typo, but the current version is 91.47. In any case, try to find at least a newer version, if not the latest.

Try a different video player. Media Player Classic, Videolan, Gom Player, pretty much anything else.

If that doesn't do the trick, then I don't know.

PS. If you do indeed defrag your hard drive every day, then that is complete and total overkill and very wearing on your hard drive. However, I wonder if you weren't just emptying the recycle bin. I've never heard of anyone defragging a hard drive that often, since it's a long and time consuming process, and certainly doesn't need to be done every day.

Edit: Oh, and obviously, shut down whatever is running in the background one by one to eliminate them as suspects.

[wormholes101]

I'm also enjoying survivor this season

Thundaar has covered pretty much everything. Only thing I could think of is that you may have a codec conflict somewhere.

I am using a very nice codec set up at the moment: Just FFD show and Matroska Haali Media splitter. Plays almost anything.

Was at a friends place recently and she had the same trouble. Jittery playback; however it was simply caused by having too many programs running (particularly Limewire). After shutting down and disabling "run on startup" on half a dozen programs, all was fine. Doesn't look like this is your problem.

[hanguker]

Thanks for the help guys. I try your trouble-shooting steps Thundarr. I really can't update my drivers, though. Its really annoying and doesn't make sence that I get B/W on my Tv after the update. I have tried EVERY setting in EVERY configuration. I brought it up with the Nvidia people and they don't get it either...so its really my last option.

I'll try the CD playback...that sounds like a really good test. It seems klite is a little bloated so maybe I'll uninstall and try wormholes' solution.

BTW- About the defrag. I use diskeeper smartdefrag. It fires up whenever I'm not using the computer to fix and defrag on the fly. It's a world reknown and well-reviewed proggy. I don't think it's going to fry my harddrive. Highly recommended....unless its screwing up my videos! LOL

[Thunndarr]

One other thing, check your cpu usage when you're playing back a video. I want to know if something is causing it to be 100%.

[wormholes101]

If you decide to go with the codec set up that I have make sure you uninstall every codec/codec pack you have and then visit

http://x264.nl/

The page is a little messy so look out for this part...

[cubanlord]

what video player are you using?

[Thunndarr]

[hanguker]

Well, I'm not using WMP anymore. I'm thinking that and the bloated klite codec pack were the problem...but I'm still testing.

I googled for codec packs and came out with a number of recommendations for CCCP. It is touted as being like Klite but without all the extras that you don't need. That is, it isn't bloated. It comes with 2 players, though. They are Media Player Classic and Zoomplayer.

I've watched an episode of Heroes and an episode of Eureka (2 great new shows) and Zoomplayer seems to be working great. Really nice little player and it has color/brightness controls (unlike MPC). I've had no stuttering problems with the new codec pack...so far

I'll report if any problems arise.
Thanks for your help.

[cubanlord]

[cubanlord]