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anyone know what may cause a media center system that is at idle in all other senses to skip during playback? we're trying to watch dvds on it and it stutters like it's out of processing power. it's a dvd-rw drive, windows media center. 2 gig ram hyperthreading, 2.6 dual core processor.
help please!
Ryan
Hmmmm,
What videocard are you using?
Do you get this problem with shop bought DVDs?
dirty DVD reader ?
how long have you had system ?
is the area around it dusty ? [is it on carpet, as opposed to being on a nice clean desk :p]
any other issues with the system ?
Yes, a few more questions:
1. Has it ever worked properly?
2. Does it play properly from the HDD?
3. Is it a purpose built Media Center PC?
4. I am assuming that you must be running Windows XP MCE.....................are all your codecs and hardware MCE approved?
I am trying to figure out if it is the hardware, the media or the software. As Foxy suggests a clean frequently helps.
:)
even when you start media center software, the music at the startup skips. it is a purpose built unit. all the good stuff... this system had a 3.0 processor that wasn't dual core but it still did this. seems to work better when not running some software called orb... for streaming to the internet... but not perfect.
So, we had a 3.0 pentium single core and we go to a 2.6 dual core?.............on the same MoBo?Quote:
this system had a 3.0 processor that wasn't dual core but it still did this. seems to work better when not running some software called orb... for streaming to the internet... but not perfect.
/ME gets up and slowly walks away
:confused:
I was unsure as to what the problem with using the other processor was, but I switched back anyways.... same problem... I enabled DMA and digital audio through the system device manager... no luck there either.
Hmmm,
I would suggest that you try this utility to check that your codecs are compatible:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
I have heard that your symptoms could be a codec problem. At least it is worth a try to eliminate the possibility if nothing else?
What Antivirus are you running if any? Or what processes are running? Sounds as if something is running in the background. Could be a bad DVD-ROM but need to check how other movies play off the Hard Drive before we can determine if this is true. What player are you using to play this dvd?