Static in Audio, Windows Media Center 2005

[Marce26]

Hello,

I recently installed Windows Media Center 2005 on my PC. I noticed that in certain windows within media center when playing audio files you can hear a fair amount of crackling. I heard it may be caused by your video driver, so when I disabled my video card driver the audio sounded perfect. I have an Nvidia 6100 series video card, I tried the official driver and the Omega 3rd party driver but the audio still crackles when playing music. Any suggestions on how I can fix this without disabling my video card driver each time?

[rallynavvie]

I fail to see how the video driver makes a difference with audio playback. The only thing I could think of is if you are using the nVidia MPEG2 codec to utilize the hardware decoding present on some cards. I didn't think the 6100 had this hardware.

Have you tried installing AC3filter and use that as your audio processor?

[Marce26]

RallyNavvie,

I haven't tried the AC3 filter but I'll give it a shot and let you know.

[Marce26]

Hello,

I tried the AC3 filter with no change, the static is still there. I do have some more information,

Motherboard: K8NF4G-SATA2
Onboard Video : Nvidia 6100 series
Sound Card: Soundblaster Live! 5.1
RAM: 1.5GB
CPU: AMD 64bit

I forgot to mention that the static goes away when running the visualizations in media center when playing MP3's. Also the static is heard when moving around menu's within media center. Audio is fine outside of media center using winmap, WMP...only media center has this problem. Drivers have been uninstalled/re-installed.

Any other suggestions?

[kablam]

Hi Marce26

I'm having this exact problem. I get a crackling sound when playing music through media centre. Like you, it plays almost perfectly when showing a visualisation but the crackling starts when browsing menus etc, especially the music library.

Anyway, I wondered if you managed to fix the problem?

Cheers!

[yoda313]

Well the original poster said the drivers were installed and reinstalled but did not mention if the sound card drivers were updated as well.

That would be the first place to start. Update your soundcard drivers and see if that helps.

[kablam]

Hi yoda

I updated the sound drivers recently and no luck unfortunately. I also tried a USB sound card and found it had the same problem.

[yoda313]

You know you might try opening the volume control panel and muting everything but the main volume. That might help.