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Windows Media player is on crack

Nitemare

Nitemare

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so is all my other video content player, divx player and real alternative.

Whenever I watch them it is in like 4x speed both video and sound.

It occurred after I replaced my motherboard and cpu with an identicle one. This seems to be the only hiccup. I tried removing all the codecs, nothing. I even uninstalled Windows Media player and reinstalled it....Nothing

Any other ideas?
 
Does this new motherboard include onboard sound? Is that what you are using? Try selecting/forcing a "preferred" sound device in the Multimedia/audio control-panel settings, and then open DXDIAG.EXE, and change your audio device acceleration levels to one notch below the maximum. I've had video-playback speed-regulation problems before, when using software-driven onboard audio. Dropping the hw-accel. settings a notch may or may not help. If that is the problem, dropping in a hardware sound card might help. Other than that, could the CPU be going into throttling/power-save mode? That would interfere mightily with delay-loop timings for a software-driven soundcard. Other than that, I can only suggest codec installation issues.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Does this new motherboard include onboard sound? Is that what you are using? Try selecting/forcing a "preferred" sound device in the Multimedia/audio control-panel settings, and then open DXDIAG.EXE, and change your audio device acceleration levels to one notch below the maximum. I've had video-playback speed-regulation problems before, when using software-driven onboard audio. Dropping the hw-accel. settings a notch may or may not help. If that is the problem, dropping in a hardware sound card might help. Other than that, could the CPU be going into throttling/power-save mode? That would interfere mightily with delay-loop timings for a software-driven soundcard. Other than that, I can only suggest codec installation issues.
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Yes, its onboard ac7 sound. Changing the audio acceleration rate did not help any. Going to continue tinkering around with it. Going to remove the audio device and let the computer find it and update drivers. it definitely has something to do with the audio drivers because even playing mp3's it sounds like I have the Best of the Chipmunks going on.
 
Uninstalling the audio device and letting it refind it made it worse, now its roughly 8x as fast 😱

Going to have to remove all the codecs manually and start over I guess
 
Removed all the codecs and reinstalled them, no dice. Disabled the onboard audio in the bios and it seems like it is at real time speed, but of course no audio...

I reenabled the windows startup sounds as well, way too fast. I tested out Yahoo Launch and its Chipmunk speed too.

Any idea on how to slow it down in W2K? It is my work machine so installing a sound card would probably not be a good idea.

 
Thinking seriously about this matter [snigger], and logically.......
your machine/vga is only reading 1 in 4 frames, but is still reading the media as if the timeline doesn't exist.

can anyone else come up with WHY

 
Originally posted by: montag451
Thinking seriously about this matter [snigger], and logically.......
your machine/vga is only reading 1 in 4 frames, but is still reading the media as if the timeline doesn't exist.

can anyone else come up with WHY
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Thats interesting that you say that. I downloaded a codec pack that had a utility called reclock that comes on all the time now that adjusts the speed correctly, but chops the sound and video all to hell.
 
Well, normally, most multi-media streams are slaved to some clock source, which in the case of audio + video, usually the video is slaved to the audio clock source. Now, with software-driven onboard audio, most of the "hardware" DirectX features are actually emulated in software. Fundamentally, this is a problem, because software-calculated timing delay routines will be affected by the CPU load on the system. Therefore it cannot calculate a stable clock reference, so it's always adjusting and re-calculating the timebase in an attempt to resync, but it can't.
Have you tried a standalone hardware PCI soundcard yet? Even the lowliest $6 CMI hardware-based soundcard shouldn't have those problems.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Well, normally, most multi-media streams are slaved to some clock source, which in the case of audio + video, usually the video is slaved to the audio clock source. Now, with software-driven onboard audio, most of the "hardware" DirectX features are actually emulated in software. Fundamentally, this is a problem, because software-calculated timing delay routines will be affected by the CPU load on the system. Therefore it cannot calculate a stable clock reference, so it's always adjusting and re-calculating the timebase in an attempt to resync, but it can't.
Have you tried a standalone hardware PCI soundcard yet? Even the lowliest $6 CMI hardware-based soundcard shouldn't have those problems.
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It's a work machine and I can't see them sending me an audio card simply because my music does not play right.

What about if I reinstall DirectX?
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Well, normally, most multi-media streams are slaved to some clock source, which in the case of audio + video, usually the video is slaved to the audio clock source. Now, with software-driven onboard audio, most of the "hardware" DirectX features are actually emulated in software. Fundamentally, this is a problem, because software-calculated timing delay routines will be affected by the CPU load on the system. Therefore it cannot calculate a stable clock reference, so it's always adjusting and re-calculating the timebase in an attempt to resync, but it can't.
Have you tried a standalone hardware PCI soundcard yet? Even the lowliest $6 CMI hardware-based soundcard shouldn't have those problems.
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It's a work machine and I can't see them sending me an audio card simply because my music does not play right.

What about if I reinstall DirectX?
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Bump for additional help?
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Does this new motherboard include onboard sound? Is that what you are using? Try selecting/forcing a "preferred" sound device in the Multimedia/audio control-panel settings, and then open DXDIAG.EXE, and change your audio device acceleration levels to one notch below the maximum. I've had video-playback speed-regulation problems before, when using software-driven onboard audio. Dropping the hw-accel. settings a notch may or may not help. If that is the problem, dropping in a hardware sound card might help. Other than that, could the CPU be going into throttling/power-save mode? That would interfere mightily with delay-loop timings for a software-driven soundcard. Other than that, I can only suggest codec installation issues.
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Yes, its onboard ac7 sound. Changing the audio acceleration rate did not help any. Going to continue tinkering around with it. Going to remove the audio device and let the computer find it and update drivers. it definitely has something to do with the audio drivers because even playing mp3's it sounds like I have the Best of the Chipmunks going on.
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Your computer is too fast, take it back and demand a slower one.

Unless you want to play HL2 4x faster
 
Hi again,

try

uninstalling all codecs, directx, mediaplayers, video drivers, video hardware [in that order]

then reinstall

then come back and tell me what happened ;-)

Good luck
 
Originally posted by: montag451
Hi again,

try

uninstalling all codecs, directx, mediaplayers, video drivers, video hardware [in that order]

then reinstall

then come back and tell me what happened ;-)

Good luck
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No good, thanks for the suggestions though. I even updated my bios. Going to check to see if there is any chipset updates, if not I will have to run the repair
 
Originally posted by: montag451
what happens if you play an mp3 file, or wav file, or midi file?
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It used to play it exceptionally fast, now it just gives and explorer.exe error and crashes windows.
 
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