Help ?? re: WMP v11 and QuickTime v7

[Woofer]

Hey, I'm loving downloading some of these samples of HV20 work. I am having an odd problem with playing the files directly off hard-drive..
I have a 2.6G Celeron, 2G RAM and an Intel Extreme 3D card, XP-2.
When I play (WMP) a big video, it plays for 3 secs, pauses for 1 sec, then plays for 3... etc. the whole length of the clip.
With the QT ver 7 player, it's even worse... random near stops, color slewing, etc.
Does anyone have any ideas ?? As a point of reference, .mpg files don't seem to do this, just the .wmv and .mov
Since I have 2 G of RAM, this just seems wrong....

???
thanx in advance
r

[Matthew MD]

you know im having the same problem, im thinking i have to update my media player or something..

[XFR]

Sounds like it only happens when it's encoded with H.264/VC-1, and that's not really weird... Celeron 2.6GHz is pretty slow... (and Intel Extreme sounds like on-board video?)
Look in your task manager (ctrl + shift + esc), this will probably say 100% CPU usage when playing these files.

Try playing it in Media Player Classic (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm) (to playback files immediately at a normal size: options, playback, auto-zoom: auto fit).
Try viewing it at a normal size instead of full screen, might help sometimes.
Try also googling for ffdshow/CoreAVC/H264, you'll probably gonna find some helpful information and people with the same problem :)

[siriusbliss]

try using DivX?

Greg

[Woofer]

Wow... the CPU was cooking it's brains out. I had the admin tools/ performance monitor going and the CPU was getting pounded... was peaking at the same time the video would stumble. Very interesting.
Definately going to look at alternative media players.

BTW, have been playing with Vegas 8 Platinum. What a neat toy.

Only about another month of saving and I get my HV20.. woo hoo

XFR - yeah, it's the crapola built-in card.. wish I still had my old NVidia.. but my son needed it more than me..LOL

[Matthew MD]

Im still using vegas 7, iv got to check out 8 platinum.

[XFR]

Well, changing media players or trying another codec will probably help a little, but fact is when handling HD footage and especially encoded (to reduce filesize and maintain quality) you will need an up to date system, so upgrading is still the best solution (Intel will drop prices on quadcores within two weeks if I remember correctly :hv20-smilie84:)


Im still using vegas 7, iv got to check out 8 platinum.
That would mean you're downgrading. "Vegas 8 Platinum" is actually "Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum", a sort of stripped version of Vegas. So Vegas 7.0e is the latest version :)

[Matthew MD]

you know what xfr, your right I looked at it and thought this looks downgrading...oh wait it is..lol