jittery playback when multitasking

[gangaskan]

here is my machine specs.


AMD Opteron 165
2 gig ram (ocz plat DDR 400)
x-fi Extreme Music
PVR 150 MCE
6800 128 mb? or 256 dont remember off hand its a vanilla PNY one
160 Gig IDE
250 gig IDE

gbpvr is of course, stored on the master drive (my primary OS)
i have live recordings stored on the 250 under a folder \gbpvr\Live!
i have previous recordings via the \Gbpvr\ directory

under my system settings i use

video decoder : FFDSHOW
Audio: System default (only use it because my X-fi Pops and crackles under playback after a while on my current audio codecs)
audio renderer: Default (also, due to the pop and crackle, this seems to be the best choice from what i've been playing with so far)

pvrx2.exe renderer : VMR9 fullscreen exclusive


everything is setup to the best of my knowledge. i have PVRx2.exe running on monitor 2, and when i'm in IE / FF or checking my Email in Thunderbird i get very small video chops, but my audio stays fine. when i switch tabs in IE / FF it does the same, and forget running a virtual server via VMWare it seems to not like that.


my drivers are not up to date as to chipset / video i know that for sure.

if i need to post logs let me know.

[robjf]

I have exactly the same issues, would love to know if there is any known solution!

[gangaskan]

i'm also running XP Pro btw

never had these issues on vista.

[stustunz]

well change back to vista then

i found the latest nvidia drivers (anything after 100xx) were unreliable with my 6800

[JavaWiz]

I was having a similar issue when I upgraded to a dual core AMD chip. After setting processor affinity, the problem went away. Turns out there is a patch (for XP) that fixed this problem for me. Take a look at this thread and see if it helps your problem.

[gangaskan]

well change back to vista then

i found the latest nvidia drivers (anything after 100xx) were unreliable with my 6800

no no no! why do you think i went back to XP just tested the vista waters out persae.

didnt like much of it really used too much ram for me


then again, i might do it again but i got my machine how i like it and dont want to do it over again LOL


i guess acronis might help

[gangaskan]

bumping

anyone have an idea?

[stustunz]

does the hardware acceleration work with ffdshow
if so there is a setting in the nvidia control panel somewhere saying use on second monitor do you have that set

[mbox]

Try the following patch.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...-us;896256

[Deusxmachina]

It's an oddball thing, but I and a friend both had it recently. The hard drive was stuck in PIO mode instead of DMA. You can check in hardware devices and look at the tabs under IDE controllers. When a drive errors six times, it drops down in speed.

It should be pretty obvious if that is the problem, though. Burning a DVD will most likely take 40 minutes instead of four minutes. I also did a 3dMark test on mine and got 3500 points, changed it to DMA and then got 9500 points.