2005-09-18, 04:23 PM
I had been having playback problems recently watching TV. Some skipping (so minor my wife didn't see...like a frame or two), occasional green or white squares in the picture, and once in a great while, picture freeze (but audio kept going).
I played w/ a bunch of things: demux, mpeg decoders, buffer file location, virtual mem file size and drive location, etc. It started around the time the new GB version came out, and since it was only live tv (in timeshift) and there had been the problem w/ mpeg1, I thougth it may be the problem, too (but I had a feeling this started beofre I updated, but couldn't be positive). I had even changed out my nvidia 5600 for my 5500 (not because of this...I came across reviews that the 5600 I had may be a poser, essentially).
Finally it occured to me that around the same time I also installed the 77.77 nVidia drivers. I went back to 77.72, and so far, it seems to be gone. It may be that something that 77.77 improved was just too much or not fully compatible w/ my HW and exact setup, since I don't see a lot of other people w/ same problem.
This is still just a theory. It could not be this at all, or maybe the 77.77 just had a bunk install, and a reinstall of 77.77 would fix it. But, again, it did seem to help, so I wanted to put this story out there. I know how hard it can be to pin down a problem like this sometimes, and I figured this may info someone else could use, or at least try.
I played w/ a bunch of things: demux, mpeg decoders, buffer file location, virtual mem file size and drive location, etc. It started around the time the new GB version came out, and since it was only live tv (in timeshift) and there had been the problem w/ mpeg1, I thougth it may be the problem, too (but I had a feeling this started beofre I updated, but couldn't be positive). I had even changed out my nvidia 5600 for my 5500 (not because of this...I came across reviews that the 5600 I had may be a poser, essentially).
Finally it occured to me that around the same time I also installed the 77.77 nVidia drivers. I went back to 77.72, and so far, it seems to be gone. It may be that something that 77.77 improved was just too much or not fully compatible w/ my HW and exact setup, since I don't see a lot of other people w/ same problem.
This is still just a theory. It could not be this at all, or maybe the 77.77 just had a bunk install, and a reinstall of 77.77 would fix it. But, again, it did seem to help, so I wanted to put this story out there. I know how hard it can be to pin down a problem like this sometimes, and I figured this may info someone else could use, or at least try.