Dvd Playback Is Choppy

[Johnny 5]

I have an issue with Videowave8/MyDVD.

 

I used to have a crappy Dell PC that I had installed Roxio and a Litescribe DVD Writer on. It worked alright (it was way slow on rendering, but it got the job done). The specs were:

 

Dell Dimension 2400

Windows XP Professional SP2

P4 2.8GHz

512MB RAM

128MB Shared Video

40GB IDE HDD

HP DVD630i

 

Remember. It ran good on this PC, even if it was a bit slow.

 

I just bought a new PC. Specs are:

 

HP Media Center Pavilion a1380n (I think that those last numbers are correct)

Athalon 3800+ (more or less 2.2GHz) Dual Core x64 capable

Windows XP Media Center SP2

1GB RAM

250GB SATA HDD

120GB SATA HDD

HP DVD640i

ATI Radeon X1300 512MB (PCI-E)

 

I installed Roxio on the new PC, along with the HDD from the old one. I ran VideoWave 8 and the videos in the timeline look real blocky. I created an Mpeg of the video, and watched it on the PC. It was fine, except at the beginning of each clip, it was fuzzy for about a second, then it cleared up. It then got fuzzy again at the end of each clip (right before a transition). Other than that, it ran smoothly. I then put a menu to it, and burned it. I put the disc in the DVD player, and it skips horribly. It pauses when I have words coming onto the screen and during most transitions. I tried the DVD on the computer as well. It does the same thing. I am using Litescribe DVD's. I made 25 copies of the same exact video on the old computer using the same discs, without a problem.

 

Can anyone help me figure out why it is doing this?

[rimasl2]

I have an issue with Videowave8/MyDVD.

 

I used to have a crappy Dell PC that I had installed Roxio and a Litescribe DVD Writer on. It worked alright (it was way slow on rendering, but it got the job done). The specs were:

 

Dell Dimension 2400

Windows XP Professional SP2

P4 2.8GHz

512MB RAM

128MB Shared Video

40GB IDE HDD

HP DVD630i

 

Remember. It ran good on this PC, even if it was a bit slow.

 

I just bought a new PC. Specs are:

 

HP Media Center Pavilion a1380n (I think that those last numbers are correct)

Athalon 3800+ (more or less 2.2GHz) Dual Core x64 capable

Windows XP Media Center SP2

1GB RAM

250GB SATA HDD

120GB SATA HDD

HP DVD640i

ATI Radeon X1300 512MB (PCI-E)

 

I installed Roxio on the new PC, along with the HDD from the old one. I ran VideoWave 8 and the videos in the timeline look real blocky. I created an Mpeg of the video, and watched it on the PC. It was fine, except at the beginning of each clip, it was fuzzy for about a second, then it cleared up. It then got fuzzy again at the end of each clip (right before a transition). Other than that, it ran smoothly. I then put a menu to it, and burned it. I put the disc in the DVD player, and it skips horribly. It pauses when I have words coming onto the screen and during most transitions. I tried the DVD on the computer as well. It does the same thing. I am using Litescribe DVD's. I made 25 copies of the same exact video on the old computer using the same discs, without a problem.

 

Can anyone help me figure out why it is doing this?

 

A few things that I found were:

 

1. You need to have a good DVD decoder engine. Nvidia's PureVideo Decoder works great for me. You can see what DVD decoder you have on your machine by installing and runnning a Microsoft utility called: "DecCheck.exe".

 

Here it is:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

 

2. The roxio hotfix called "dvrms_hotfix.exe" fixed my skipping problem when converting DVR-ms files from a Windows Media center Edition 2005 computer. You could try it to see if it helps...here it is:

 

http://tools.roxio.com/support/c8/dvrms_hotfix.exe

 

-- good luck

[Johnny 5]

A few things that I found were:

 

1. You need to have a good DVD decoder engine. Nvidia's PureVideo Decoder works great for me. You can see what DVD decoder you have on your machine by installing and runnning a Microsoft utility called: "DecCheck.exe".

 

Here it is:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

 

2. The roxio hotfix called "dvrms_hotfix.exe" fixed my skipping problem when converting DVR-ms files from a Windows Media center Edition 2005 computer. You could try it to see if it helps...here it is:

 

http://tools.roxio.com/support/c8/dvrms_hotfix.exe

 

-- good luck

 

Thank you. I will try it as soon as I get home.

 

you were having that probelm as well?

[rimasl2]

Thank you. I will try it as soon as I get home.

 

you were having that probelm as well?

 

 

I had two or three codecs on my machine. The NVidia one seemed to work best.

 

I had audio/video synch problems trying to convert DVR-MS files from a Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 PC to DVD using videoWave. The DVR-MS_hotfix.exe file fixed it. I don't know if this will help you or not.

 

-- rimasl