[Muddlin'Thru]

The short story - using Zoom Player and ffdshow as per recommendations from various threads on this forum. CPU usage is averaging 80%. PQ is perfect, to my eye anyway. Problem is the video freezes every 20-30 minutes - CPU spikes to 100% and boom, picture freezes. When I take ffdshow out of the equation CPU runs around 18% with spikes to 25%.


I'm guessing this is some background process but I can't figure out what it is. I've searched the various threads here for "freeze", "video freeze" etc. but found nothing.


Any ideas on the 20% CPU spikes? I guess I'll just notch back the resize until I hear back on possible background processes.


Still muddlin'

 

[dlarsen]

Are you using the WinDVD decoders? If so, do a search on Abstract DMO.


Dave

 

[Muddlin'Thru]

Yes, and yes, I have the Abstract filter in front of ffdshow and have done the regedit to set the value to 0.

 

[dlarsen]

OK. Beats me then. Perhaps verify that the Abstract filter is indeed registered and connected in the graph? Verify its operational by using a non-zero value? Sounds like the classic WinDVD/ZP/ffdshow problem in that video will freeze whenever a frame is dropped.


Dave

 

[Muddlin'Thru]

Well, thanks for the reply. What codec do you use?

 

[dlarsen]

NVDVD 3+ presently