-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 19:33, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > I'm running out of ideas to try. If the cpu isn't fast enough to > do both the video and audio decoding that might be the problem. Just > playing a .mp2 file with an audio player doesn't have the timing > requirements that playing synchronized audio + video has. > > Stuttering/shaking video is a symptom of the field order being > incorrect - but can that also affect the audio? I didn't think it > had an effect on the audio playing. Sounds like the movie > player is having to cut short the playing of parts of the audio because > it's time to start the next portion of movie - stopping/starting the > audio like that would be a stuttering effect. And at higher video > (DVD) bitrates the effect would be more likely to happen than at > the lower (SVCD) bitrate. Almost sounds like the system isn't fast > enough (for whatever reason) to play more than ~2500kbit/sec video > and audio in sync. At 4500 and higher the video decoding is taking > more cpu time and throwing the audio timing off. > Could it be disk access that's too slow? I keep meaning to try hdparm on it, as it's probably running at the slowest basic speed. Certainly the system is fast enough to handle professional dvds, so I don't think it's cpu or graphics card. Hard disk sounds more likely to me. What do you think?
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