ATI AIW Radeon File Playback

[sillyrabbitt]

Hi-

i have an AIW 32mb pci radeon and sometimes when i go to playback a file the video is SO jerky and the voice and video arent in sync......what is this from and what can i do?


i am using a P3 500Mhz win98se system

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!!!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: sillyrabbitt on 2001-12-02 00:23:04 ]</font>

[leebo]

What source are you recording from?
What settings are you using?
Are you capturing the video to a seperate hard drive from the one Win 98 is installed on?

Give more details.

[sillyrabbitt]

leebo posted: What source are you recording from?
What settings are you using?
Are you capturing the video to a seperate hard drive from the one Win 98 is installed on? Give more details.

(1) i dl the file from the internet its an avi file

(2) sometimes when i do the capture myself i do it in mpeg1 an yes to a seprate hd

THANKS for the help

[sommersby]

is your cdrom set in dma mode?

[sillyrabbitt]

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On 2001-12-03 20:30:16, sommersby wrote:
is your cdrom set in dma mode?
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what does that mean????

[sommersby]

right click on my computer, go to properties, then device manager, click on cdrom devices and highlight your drive, click properties, under on of the tabs (I think it is the first one) you will see a box for DMA, if it is not grayed out or already selected check it. If it is already enabled then the problem could be another program running in the background, antivirus, etc.

[sillyrabbitt]

hi-

dma was checked for the cd burner. the cdrom didnt even give me a choice.

[sommersby]

then always playback in the burner as the cdrom without dma will always give poor performance for video playback, if you still have problems again I would check to make sure you close all running programs before playing videos

[sillyrabbitt]

but i am having problems when i am playing a file not from the cdrom or cdrw but from the hd that i dl from the net....i am still confused as to why it skipps and jerks around??

[Nelson37]

If some files work and others don't then you either got a crap download (most likely) or you need a different codec(like DivX). ATI file player very tolerant, you can also try playing file with Windows Media Player or STHSVCD.

[sillyrabbitt]

THANKS i think that what it is (i got a crappy dl) becuase its not all the files and but its not all the time either so i am not sure! anyway i will try a new player like: STHSVCD

Thanks