[Dammit!]

In refference to this old thread....

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0&pagenumber=1


Does anyone know how to do this in Windows 2000 or if it's even necesary/advisable in windows 2000 to do so?


I'm still getting frame jumps and skips during dvd playback. I've gotten them reduced by quite a bit already but they're definitely not gone. The symptoms in that thread sounded exactly like what I get despite the fact that I'm not using a low end system (cpu wise anyway). Maybe the generic dvd drive in this thing has an insufficient internal cache? If that were the case would increasing the windows cache even help?

 

[Dammit!]

*punt!*

 

[HK-Steve]

Add me to the list as I would like to know as well.


Cheers

Steve

 

[gnollo]

Did you rip the DVD to HardDisk and tried to play from there to see if the stuttering is still present?

This would help you to understand if it is really a DVD Rom issue.

Have you uninstalled the IDE channel to see if things improve?

 

[HK-Steve]

Yes, I did rip to HD and had no stuttering.


Also reinstalled the IDE channels. Still stutt,tt,ttering


So the DVD rom cache is something else to try.


Cheers

Steve

 

[jkaiser]

I am running Windows 2K and do not have thi issue at all. I run my systems (1GHz P3 and 2.4GHz P4) as follows


ACPI turned OFF - I assign the IRQs to avoid conflicts as much as possible.


All my drives have DMA turned on. I had quite a bit of trouble with this until I removed the Intel drivers and reverted to the Microsoft drivers. Intel drivers did not have the DMA option. Once they were set, I could then re-install the Intel ones and the DMA struck.


Only other idea would be to assign the DVD drive as a Networked Drive as some have reported more cache that way.

 

[Dammit!]

I'm a newbie and don't even know how to rip a dvd to the HD yet. I know there are programs that do it. I just haven't looked into it so far.

 

[gnollo]

Make sure that your DVD-Rom is a master and is also alone on the IDE cable... further than that, borrow another DVDdrive and see if it is a hardware problem I guess....

 

[Dammit!]

Quote:

Originally posted by gnollo Make sure that your DVD-Rom is a master and is also alone on the IDE cable... further than that, borrow another DVDdrive and see if it is a hardware problem I guess....

It's always been setup on it's own channel as the master. I do have another drive I can try but I've been avoiding it because it's going to be a bit of a pain to get that drive out of the system it's in (the computer is mounted in an awkward way and I'd have to take it down to remove the drive). The cache thing in the thread I linked above made sense so I was hoping to try that before I swapped drives.

 

[Dammit!]

Fixed!


I replaced the SB Live! with a M-audio Revo tonight and also swapped the dvd drive with the one in my other system (which was every bit as much of a pain in the butt as I expected). Stutters appear to be gone. The strange thing is, I put the dvd drive I took out of my HTPC and put it back in the other system. I expected it to stutter in that one as well but it did not. Much lower spec machine too. Could it have been the SB Live? That seems like a stretch but now neither machine has one and neither machine is having stuttering issues.



Now I can finally dig into ffdshow and the various filtering options you guys are always raving about. I saw a link to a place that had graphs for people to copy in a thread a while ago but can't find it now. If anyone has it handy a link would be appreciated.

 

[PGw]

Cacheman is an application that allows tweaking of the different caches
http://www.outertech.com. (Freeware/shareware). Easy to use.

 

[Dammit!]

Quote:

Originally posted by PGw Cacheman is an application that allows tweaking of the different caches http://www.outertech.com. (Freeware/shareware). Easy to use.

And where were you this morning?


Heheh, thanks.

 

[gnollo]

Could it have been the SB Live?


Certainly its drivers. I remember seeing posts of loads of people with stuttering fixed by a specific driver (usually not the latest one...)