hi everyone I am having a problem that i cant seem to track down. I have a duel xeon machine 2.6 ghz, asus motherboard with 3 gb ram, the audio card is an HDA xposion 7.1 usieng the digital optical out, and the video card is an ati radeon x1950 pro. I am getting stuttering video and audio when trying to play back dvd's both form the dvd drive and ripped to the local hard drive. a check of the machine shows the processor running around 20% . any idea where i should be looking?
This one is a standard reply... What speed are you burning at? and what brand of media are you burning to? Irrespective of the advertised speed on the media, burn at least half that speed. My suggustion would be to keep burning to a max of 8X speed. If the brand of media is an "el cheapo" then what else could you expect? Use Verbatim or TDK's at worst. We (my family) have used lesser quality CD's and DVD's to ok results. The poorer the media the more gentle the treatment and the less expectations of success and longevity. Rule of thumb: Keep the burning speed low and the quality high. Here's another standard... have you used a lens cleaner since you bought the unit? If you smoke and drink as much as i did, and have children...then a cleaner would come in handy. PS: you can stop smoking but you'll never be rid of the kids........or the drink One last tip, is to NOT do anything at all on your PC while it is processing files etc for your DVD rips (multitasking). RE-coding takes an awful amount of processor power, and so limit the implied mistakes to an absolute minimum at this time. Try the above and see how things improve ok? Cheers.
not burning at all, as i said in my orginal post trying to play dvds from the drive AND from the hard drive. these play fine on other players
Stuttering usually indicates some kind of bottleneck with your optical drive. Make sure your DVD drive is on an IDE channel separate from your boot disk. Usually the DVD drive is on the secondary IDE channel as a master. Also make sure the DVD drive is installing with DMA transfer and not PIO. You check all of this in the device manager. Make sure you've installed any chipset drivers that enable DMA transfer.
