Streaming MOV file on PC sounds muddled

[Muse]

Here's the link = 10 second movie showing Arnold Schwarzenegger. I run Windows 2000, have a fast DSL connection, a Santa Cruz sound card that otherwise seems to work fine, but it sounds muddled on my system to the point where I can't make out 80% of the words. Sounds like he's talking under water is how I'd describe it. I messed with my Quicktime 6.4 (latest version) settings, connection speed, but it remains the same. Does anybody have an idea what might be up with this?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

maybe it's the other end messing things up.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
maybe it's the other end messing things up.

Other people I know say it works fine for them. I'm the only guy who is having a problem, AFAIK. Sounds to me like some kind of quick looping is going on. Weird. Does it work for you folks?

 

[corkyg]

I just ran your link and it it works fine. What version of Quicktime are you running?

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: corky-g
I just ran your link and it it works fine. What version of Quicktime are you running?

6.4, the latest. Downloaded and installed it around a week ago.

 

[corkyg]

Could that be the problem? It works perfectly in 6.0. Sometimes upgrades are actually retrogrades. 🙂

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: corky-g
Could that be the problem? It works perfectly in 6.0. Sometimes upgrades are actually retrogrades. 🙂

Ya, know, I was about to uninstall QT. It's loading something in my tray and won't quit doing that. I remove it and it reappears. This approaches spyware for sneaky tenacity and the d__n thing doesn't even work right. I've always had trouble with QT. I'll remove and find and install 6.0, but hold out little hope I won't have problems with it too. Anyway, I'm going to swap out my soundcard for another hopefully this week. Some chance it will shake out when I do that, who knows?

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Are you talking about the QTTRAY app that it loads? You can tell it not to load up in the system tray through the Quicktime Preferences.


Sorry, no idea yet on why things might be uber-muddled sound wise. What happens if you save the file to disk and watch it locally (or watch it from your internet cache)?

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
Are you talking about the QTTRAY app that it loads? You can tell it not to load up in the system tray through the Quicktime Preferences.


Sorry, no idea yet on why things might be uber-muddled sound wise. What happens if you save the file to disk and watch it locally (or watch it from your internet cache)?

I can't figure out how to download the file to disk. There's no save option at the site. How would I watch it from my Internet cache?

 

[Pretty Cool]

That autoloading annoys me as well, as I have never been able to disable it. As far as the muddled sounds go, Quicktime seems to very picky about audio. For instance it will sound fine using my cheapo Yamaha's own driver. However, if I use my default Total Recorder's(needed for recording audio streams) driver, sound is inaudible. Therefore, my guess is that Quicktime is just not compatible with all sound drivers and probably not all sound cards.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Pretty Cool
That autoloading annoys me as well, as I have never been able to disable it. As far as the muddled sounds go, Quicktime seems to very picky about audio. For instance it will sound fine using my cheapo Yamaha's own driver. However, if I use my default Total Recorder's(needed for recording audio streams) driver, sound is inaudible. Therefore, my guess is that Quicktime is just not compatible with all sound drivers and probably not all sound cards.

I guess that's it ! I also use Total Recorder and have the latest standard version, 4.3. I just made an adjustment in Total Recorder to use my Santa Cruz's driver instead of the Total Recorder driver and now the MOV audio is relatively clear, although Arnold's accent makes some of it unintelligible to me. 🙂

Do I need TR's driver in general? I record audio streams, lately off my TV/FM card but I'm going to start using the audio off my AV receiver, since it's a ton cleaner.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Total Recorder does not work without its own driver. So, your choices are:

Choice #1
- Control Panel/Preferred Device Playback and Recording: Playback Through TotalRecorder
- Quicktime Player Preferences/Sound In and Sound Out: waveIn and waveOut: Santa Cruz
- You might try setting Quicktime back to TotalRecorder or another audio driver afterwards to see which reproduces the best sounds

Choice #2
- Go to Control Panel and change the Preferred Device setting whenever you switch between Total Recorder and Quicktime.

Choice #3
- Avoid Quicktime(my favorite)

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Pretty Cool
Total Recorder does not work without its own driver. So, your choices are:

Choice #1
- Control Panel/Preferred Device Playback and Recording: Playback Through TotalRecorder
- Quicktime Player Preferences/Sound In and Sound Out: waveIn and waveOut: Santa Cruz
- You might try setting Quicktime back to TotalRecorder or another audio driver afterwards to see which reproduces the best sounds

Choice #2
- Go to Control Panel and change the Preferred Device setting whenever you switch between Total Recorder and Quicktime.

Choice #3
- Avoid Quicktime(my favorite)

Thanks so much for spelling it out. In fact, I uninstalled QT completely yesterday after having viewed the link a few times. I found that uninstalling it without using the Everything option still left QT in my Add/Remove programs and also found that the QT tray icon kept coming back no matter what! Had to root this baby out by the roots. Just to see what would happen I went to the link again and instead of loading the movie it offered the MOV for saving to my HD, which I did. If I want to watch it again or another MOV (it happened a week ago, with an MOV on an audio CD), I'll install some sort of Quicktime again, I guess, at least temporarily. Meantime, I'm using Choice #3! 😀

 

[ScrapSilicon]

thanks for the info(using TR as well..QT bitesmenads 😛) 🙂