Choppy Video Playback on Computer

[gbox]

Every time I burn a DVD with my computer I always verify that it plays correctly by closing the tray and playing the burnt DVD on my computer. I use WMP 11 and when the DVD starts both the video and audio playback are choppy. When I play the burnt DVD's on my home theater system they play just fine with no problems at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[tinker]

How fast is your processor?
How much memory is on your video card and how many applications are running in background?
I would start with applications. Turn them off and see what hapen.

[gbox]

Thanks for your reply AMD Athlon 64 3700+ processor, 1GB of Memory, 200GB HardDrive. ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series Viedo Card 256MG. There are/were only a couple of applications running in the background. I don't think this is it, although obviously I'm not sure. I never used to have a problem with this until probably 4, 5, 6 months ago.

[Baldrick]

Have you tried any other player like Media Player Classic, VLC Media Player? IF they work you might have mpeg2/dvd decoder problem.

[tinker]

Yes, I second Baldrick. I do not use WMP as a player. Experienced too many problems. I use PowerDVD together with Nero Player for testing my compilations.

[gbox]

Hey guys, I tried using Media Player Classic and it was the same thing "choppy". Any other suggestions. Thanks

[MysticE]

Thanks for your reply AMD Athlon 64 3700+ processor, 1GB of Memory, 200GB HardDrive. ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series Viedo Card 256MG. There are/were only a couple of applications running in the background. I don't think this is it, although obviously I'm not sure. I never used to have a problem with this until probably 4, 5, 6 months ago.

Would have been best to look for a solution then. Usually one would look to recent changes... updates, drivers, new software etc.

Does this also happen with older burns that you have? Do pressed DVDs play right? Does playing the video files off the hard drive (before committing to disc) also result in choppy play?

[GRYPHON123]

I am using WinAVI to convert AVI to DVD and then burn for use with our stand alone DVD player. The problem is, the video and audio play back is stuttering, even on the POWER DVD player. I have been thinking that my computer doesn't have enough RAM to convert and burn an entire movie as my SDRAM is only 1024MB. My set up maybe?

[edDV]

1 GB is enough. 512MB is enough*.

Does a commercial DVD play smoothly? That helps separate computer vs encoding issues.


* DVD limits VOBs to 1GB to limit memory needed for playback. The 1GB VOB file is read buffered in small portions so the full GB doesn't need to be read to memory. Hardware DVD players get by with small amounts of memory and fifo buffers but this depends on realtime hardware MPeg decoders. Computers using software decompression use more memory but not much more.

[Nelson37]

It is not your hardware, unless something is defective, or has really bad drivers.

Play the original MPG from the hard drive, test the authored files before burning, then copy the burned DVD back to the hard drive and try that.

Could be the mode on the DVD drive, or some backround process.

It would be helpful to try to isolate what happened around the time the condition began. Some useful information might allow for a better diagnosis.

[cyflyer]

I have a case on a friend's computer where there's choppy playback on Powerdvd but plays ok on WMP. Also, he can't run any version of Nero for some reason. Is it possible this is a Windows related problem, and possibly also gboxs' problem ? I'm going to try a Windows reinstallation on my friends' and see if that helps.

[gbox]

I tried using VLC Media PLayer and the same thing happened, choppy playback. It took me a while to get back to this post and I have been "living" with this problem for quite a while now. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to fix this problem. Thanks

[MysticE]

Well in Nero ShowTime enabling hardware acceleration causes similar problems. Leaving it unticked solves this. Maybe try playing with the various video and audio acceleration settings?

[gbox]

Where are the video/audio acceleration options located? Are you talking on WMP 11 as this is the Media Player I use most, or somewhere else? In WMP 11 if I go to Options, then Performance, video acceleration is set to full and the is recommended by the player. There are no audio acceleration options that I can find. Should I adjust this or do you have any other ideas? Thanks