Just like the title says, I'm having a massively frustrating problem
with a video and my system. My system runs 3.06 Ghz, I added a gig of
memory a few months ago, and the video files I'm working with are defragged.

But over the past few weeks, the playback has been terrible. The main
file is something like 1.8 gig, another file is 7 gig, and they
continually stop-and-start-and-stop-and-start. Problem occurs with Media
Player, Winamp, and within Adobe Premiere. And editing the chapter stops
within Nero is molasses-slow; right now, it's a task better suited for
Gitmo than my desktop.

I've stripped out as many background processes as I can, I've scanned
for spyware, and the problem persists. Maybe there's a bad codec or
something (Xvid was a recent installaton). The machine is fast, it's got
more than enough memory... does anyone have any suggestions?

Brian Siano wrote:
Sorry is this is too obvious but I suppose you have re-booted. Windows
is very bad at handing back memory I'm told

Margaret

"Margaret Willmer" <margaret@giggling.willmer.org.uk> wrote in message
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WHAT? Back Memory? You shouldn't believe everything you are told.
I am sure everyone would enjoy hearing exactly what back memory is.

Elan Magavi wrote:
That would be "Handing" back, as in releasing...

Try using a player like Videolan which uses its own internal codecs. Its
possible you have a conflict.

You don't give many details about the files your having problems with.
Really, you should test your problem out against some other files as
well, especially some smaller ones. Also, I've found that files with
high bitrates sometimes don't play right in the basic media players.

Really, your going to need to dig deeper and do more testing and
comparison and give more info than 'this file doesn't play right', if
you are going to expect something more helpful than 'did you reboot'
from this newsgroup.

Just a shot in the dark, but did you recently install some batch-o-codes
update in your computer?

"Ray S" <mail@mail.com> wrote in message
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right.. 24 years programming.. never heard of deallocation or releasing
referred to as handing back.



I would also ask the poster if he has Automatic updates on.

Elan Magavi wrote:

Picky picky picky.... Someone didn't use the right technical term to
describe something, big deal. With 24 years, you would know full well
its possible that someone could be quite sloppy and design something
that might hog memory.

"Ray S" <mail@mail.com> wrote in message
news:ULRph.1133$G23.1077@newsreading01.news.tds.ne t...
Relax. The OP said this was occurring with all of his apps. So it probably
isn't one app hogging memory. <G>
Also, the assertion that Windows has problems releasing memory is erroneous.
If pointing that out ruffles your feathers then so be it.

Ray S wrote:

I'll give it a try, if it's free.

And I'm having problems with them within Adobe Premiere, too. Grr.

The usual Microsoft updating. I un-installed them recently, too, and
I'll probably update the machine this weekend and see how that works.

"Elan Magavi" <Elan@nomailnospam.com> wrote in message
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Just a suggestion, but get your hands on one of the utilities
out there that will tell you disk throughput. I have seen two
issues that would cause what you are seeing -- the first is the
disk ending up in the wrong transfer mode (which nobody seems
to know how it happens), the other is a disk that was going
marginal - no, not rumor, I have had that exact issue, very slow
boot, everything like it was running on a 486 etc. I managed to
make a good image of the drive before it went off into never never
land (no, not Michael Jackson's place). See if the throughput
on your drive is what you expect it to be.

mikey

Mike Fields wrote:

That's another good idea. I wouldn't have thought of that. Happily, the
disk isn't the one with my OS on it, so replacing it and moving the data
wouldn't be a huge problem.

Brian Siano wrote:

Indeed it is.

www.videolan.org

do you limit this behavior to only video related tasks? A hardware
problem is not out of the possible either.

These kinds of things can be really frustrating. You can end up doing
all kinds of trial and error things to try and pinpoint it

Elan Magavi wrote:
His video related apps yes. And I only point out that you were
unnecessarily harsh to a poster who meant well, but probably did not
have the appropriate experience or knowledge to assist in detail.
Civility was the only issue and a request for more of it.

"Ray S" <mail@mail.com> wrote in message
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No it wasn't harsh. Try not to over react to what you read and try not to
bother me with netiquette.

On 1/12/2007, Elan Magavi posted this:
[...]

It's a deal.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:12:34 -0800, Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@nobody.invalid>
wrote:

Indeed Gene. A person like Elan Magavi only likes to be killfiled for his
anti-social netbehaviour :-)
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"Brian Siano" <siano@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote in message
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suggestion

one- Check your drive cables,you may have accidently pulled one loose.

two- Check your drive modes in the bios, sometimes they revert back to pio
mode.

three- to lenthy to type, follow link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472

hope this helps

"Martin Heffels" <twentyfourthof@november.edu> wrote in message
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Exactly!

On 1/12/2007, Martin Heffels posted this:
I never killfile (well, hardly ever). Maybe 'cause I just haven't
figured out how to make plonking work well for me :-)

Besides, the threads end up looking weird when posts are plonked.

I can easily enough just ignore truly offensive posts (a lot worse than
any in this thread, in other words).


--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

The free Process Explorer will show the processes that are currently
running and consuming resources, this can help troubleshoot
performance, etc, issues ... I prefer it over Windows Task Manager:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx

Tox wrote:

You know, after posting about the playback problem, I ran into a related
problem: importing video with Ulead resulted in a lot of dropped frames.
I checked the various forums for help,and found that the "reverted to
pio mode" issue crops up there, too. trying to fix it revealed that that
drive couldn't be anything _but_ pio mode. Importing to my main, faster
drive worked just fine.

So I'm going to assume that my earlier playback problem was due to this
revert-to-pio issue you mentioned above. It seems to me that this hit
the nail on the head, and thanks.