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My video skips

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Junin

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When viewing any type of video, the video will often skip ahead several seconds or enter some kind of hyper drive mode of accelerated play for a few seconds. I'm not getting any kind of IRQ conflicts (from what I can tell).

Dual Pentium3 933mhz
512mb ram
geforce2 pro
Windows 2000

Any help given would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
 
Does this happen the whole time you are playing the video, or just as you're first loading it? If it's just as you load it, it's no big deal, and I wouldn't worry about it. Otherwise, I would suggest defragmenting your HDD as soon as possible. People underestime the impact that this has on performance, especially when the software used to play the video (Not just the player, but the codecs) are on the harddisk.
 
My video skips throughout the video, seemingly at random times. I can usually count on it skipping at least 3-5 times in a 2 minute period.
This problem occurs even after a newly defragged HDD. I try to defrag once every 2 weeks, and it hasn't helped yet.
 
Is this divx were talking about? as it could be a codex issue. As I seriously don't see a hardware issue in this.
 
It's not a divx issue as far as I can tell, being that it happens in Flash as well as any type of video playback. I've downloaded the newest codecs and the problem persists.

EDIT:
I forgot to mention that it also happens when using directx during things like the FMV scenes in Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo and pretty much any other DirectX mode of video playback.
 
Maybe you should try using different software to view the videos. I highly doubt it is a hardware issue myself. If you are willing to format you harddrive and start over, then I would suggest doing so.
 
I have tried different software as well. It still happens. And software would have no effect on playback in games like Warcraft3, would it?
 
It may be that your harddrive is running in PIO mode instead of DMA which would severly handicap it in means of performance. Sometimes it is hard to see until you watch a video and it lags like hell.

Go to Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager and check on your IDE channels to see if anything is running in PIO mode. I would be more specific but I am on a NT 4.0 machine at a library, and I dont remember where the device manager specifically is.

Spac3d
 
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