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    I use MovieMaker to capture from my SON DCRHC21 at AVI quality. When I play back the AVI. file with MP10 or RealPlayer it is all choppy and the sound is all over the place. First thought was computer right? The problem is last year I used a friends Pan miniDV and everything came out fine. Here where it gets kinda weird. If I burn the same AVI onto a DVD and play it back everything is fine. Picture and sound match up and look great. Also, if I do some quick editing and make a DVD the playback is fine on my TV. Someone please tell me whats happining.

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    It sounds like your PC is struggling to keep up the playback. I'd say it was because of the codec, but Windows Movie Maker pretty much rules that out. My guess - either you really need to defragment your drives before you capture (you should do this anyway), or you have some background processes chewing up the CPU. When it is doing nothing, what is the CPU usage like (right-click on the task bar and select task manager, then click on the performance tab). Being able to play the same avi file back smoothly from DVD suggests severe fragmentation or other hard disk related issues.
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    thanks for the help. I defraged and then captured some more video with the same results. When an avi. is playing back in Real Player CPU usage is at 95%. it shouldn't be that high, right? Any other suggestions.

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    Another quick note to the above post...

    when I playback any other avi. file like a movie or video clip, they play fine. CPU usage at about 30-40%. I guess what I'm looking for is what would cause Real Player to eat up 100% usage when I play back something I have captured.
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