they'll play One way but not another. explain please.

mudholestomper · Post by **mudholestomper** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:31 pm

why is it many videos, most notibly many of the new(er) ones will play just fine IF played from anyware saved on my local hard drive. Yet, when attempting to play from the CD that i burned many to i end up with choppy results that, frankly sound like crap.

Keep in mind that my system was near top-of-the-line no less then a year ago, so i am hardly hurting for raw computational power and general system resources to draw from for this, or any other process for That matter.

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:40 pm

depends. is the cd scrached ? how much memory buffer does the disk have ? whats the bitrate of the file ? whats it encoded it. a freind of mine has a wierd problem. he can play decent qualty anime avi's (thier about 200MB/epp) fine of cd's, yet mp3's sometimes go chopy.

and obviosly, this is something for the video hardware/software section

Seki The Ifrit · Post by **Seki The Ifrit** » Tue May 04, 2004 10:42 pm

I always thought this was obvious, thats what happens. Your reading the informaiton off a foreign object rather than off your comp, its not like your using a vcd.

mudholestomper · Post by **mudholestomper** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:12 am

bum: no. completely new scratchless CD(s), and as for the rest of your questions, i have no idea as to the answers to any. =\

Seki: being a bit more of a techie then most (to understate things), yes that notion had occured to me as well. HOW-ever, that greatly depends also on the available system resources of wich i have plenty of mostly if not totally negating noticable lagg for anything but the more intense of resource hogging apps and games.
Ergo, i speculate as to wether this could be due to the codec used in a lot of todays vids. or possibly some other unknown reason. hence, the question. soooo, no. the answer is most decidedly NOT so odvious. =|

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Wed May 05, 2004 2:39 am

Maybe the Ultra DMA is not activated on your CDRom Drive ?

I've had this problem with my previous motherboard (VIA Chipset which had big problems with the UDMA).

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Wed May 05, 2004 6:24 am

I find playing items on discs in DVD player software usually kept things smooth as the program utilizes a larger buffer than some regular players. My suggestion is to experiment with different players and see which works best for you.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Wed May 05, 2004 7:40 am

update your drivers and perform a full system recovery. In that order.

mudholestomper · Post by **mudholestomper** » Wed May 05, 2004 6:21 pm

Maybe the Ultra DMA is not activated on your CDRom Drive ?

mayhaps. as far as i am aware it is,but ill do a double check. thanx for the tip.

using software drivers not made for the hardware is at best problematic Corran. such a process as you describe i can forsee a marid of potentional and possibly far reaching problems for. ergo, to that end ild much rather not go. thanx anyway.

update your drivers and perform a full system recovery. In that order.

they are, and no. that "advice" is rather pointless as the machine would then be right back to ware it was. or is that the point? giving me pointless, time wasting advice i mean.[/i]

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed May 05, 2004 6:51 pm

mudholestomper wrote:
Corran Productions wrote:I find playing items on discs in DVD player software usually kept things smooth as the program utilizes a larger buffer than some regular players. My suggestion is to experiment with different players and see which works best for you.
using software drivers not made for the hardware is at best problematic Corran. such a process as you describe i can forsee a marid of potentional and possibly far reaching problems for.

... What the hell?

He said using DVD player programs (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc.) to play video files on CDs. Nowhere did he say anything about drivers.

mudholestomper · Post by **mudholestomper** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:33 am

umm... that last quote i wasnt quoting Corran. rather i was quoting nailz2000's oh-so wounder "advice". mayhaps you missed that.