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Media centre problem

  • 03-10-2008 12:15pm
    #1
    qwertyphobia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭


    Have had a media centre a few years, with no great hassle.

    Watching a recorded movie from the TV and after a while it starts to what can only be called stutter, the sound goes out of synch and the image starts freazing for a half a second or two at a time.

    While trying to figure out the problem, it turns out that if I close it and play it again it goes fine for a while till it starts up again. If I repeat the process of closing media player and starting it again I can skip to the last bit that was stuttering and it plays fine but 15 minutes later it starts again.

    I am guessing maybe then that this has something to do with how the movie is being buffered before it is shown? But not sure really.

    Any ideas of what I should try next to either sort out the problem or find out what the problem is?

    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    bazwaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭bazwaldo


    Is it Vista or MCE 2005 you are using? And which mpeg decoder?

    I reckon it could be the decoder. Try use a different app to view the file, and one that uses a different decoder. Maybe VLC (not sure if that supports dvrms off the top of my head though).


  • #3
    qwertyphobia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭qwertyphobia


    It's 2005 and I have Hauppauge Tv cards

    Can you tell me how do I check which codec's I am using?

    In the curently installed program menu I have window media encoder 9 series, some audio codecs and xvid mpeg 4 video codec


    thanks


  • #4
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    There's a tool called "Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility" for this. You can download it from Microsoft here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en

    This allows you to check which MPEG codecs you have installed and change the codec Media Center is using if a new installation has screwed things up. When I was using Media Center back in the day, I found the Nvidia Purevideo decoder to be very good - don't know if anything has superseded it at this stage, since I haven't used Media Center in almost a year.


  • #5
    8kvscdpglqnyr4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 413 ✭✭8kvscdpglqnyr4


    Did you add any new hardware lately?

    I had a similar problem ... read here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-2055319527.html

    Can you set your stopwatch on the interval between the jitter on the video playback? The interval between jitter frames was exactly one minute with my problem.


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