Skipping

[whatsmydingo]

Whenever I play some type of movie the movie skips. Audio files work fine, but when anything has to play a movie, it will just like skip a couple seconds and then continue. This has happened with windows media player, winamp and powerdvd. I think it's a problem with maybe my video card (radeon 9500) because this problem has survived through at least one reformatting of my hard drive. Any ideas on how I could fix this?

 

[whatsmydingo]

No ideas anyone? =\

 

[Lorand]

I had a similar problem with an ATI AIW. If your CPU is fast enough, try setting the hardware acceleration one step to the left (display properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot).
This solved my problem and the video played continuously after that.

 

[[tab]]

What processor do you have? What sort of videos are giving you problems?

 

[whatsmydingo]

It's an Athlon XP 2700+, and anything that has video output does the skipping, so like playing .mpgs and dvds and the like.

 

[whatsmydingo]

I tried doing what Lorand said, but it hasn't really helped, so I still have this problem. =\ If anyone could help that'd be great!

 

[[tab]]

Have you tried installing the latest drivers for your video card?

 

[whatsmydingo]

Yup, didn't fix the problem

 

[[tab]]

How about this?

 

[whatsmydingo]

hey thanks! that seems to have done the trick!! anyone know what "hardware acceleration" is??

 

[[tab]]

hey thanks! that seems to have done the trick!!

Woohoo!!!

 

[whatsmydingo]

I still don't understand what "hardware acceleration" is, and why things sound like junk without it. =\

 

[Lorand]

Recent graphics chips support some level of image rendering in hardware using built-in functions. This offloads the CPU from performing the same tasks.
Somewhat similar acceleration is available for some sound cards too... Not for every soundcard, as you experienced