Desperate Plea for Technical Help!
Apr. 12th, 2008 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccatoriaOkay, the problem is: I think my sound card is screwing up my video playback. Yeah, my sound card.
I've always had some glitchy video playback on this system, but usually I can deal by using specific players and not running a lot of other things at the same time. The other day, I updated the sound card drivers which solved about 60% of this problem. I was overjoyed. Then, spontaneously, the *whole* problem was fixed and it started working properly. I was boggled, but pleased.
However, on reboot, it was back to the 60% level again. EXCEPT for the first two or three minutes after reboot when it would play like a dream. SURREAL. I've looked at the task manager and can't see anything starting up at that point that would account for this.
I rolled back the drivers and again, it seemed to make the problem go away except when I do that - it plays nicely, but won't recognise the headphones.
That was last night.
This MORNING, no matter WHAT I do - even trying to rollback and play without headphones - it's back to glitching. Or rather, shorter files play great, but longer larger files like the latest Battlstar Galactica are practically unwatchable.
I've tried updating to the latest drivers, to no avail. I really...I'm upset by this, worried by this, have tried everything I can think of (including installing older versions of drivers) and nothing's helping.
Can anyone shed any light on this? I just wanna watch TV and make crazy videos like any normal fan!
I've always had some glitchy video playback on this system, but usually I can deal by using specific players and not running a lot of other things at the same time. The other day, I updated the sound card drivers which solved about 60% of this problem. I was overjoyed. Then, spontaneously, the *whole* problem was fixed and it started working properly. I was boggled, but pleased.
However, on reboot, it was back to the 60% level again. EXCEPT for the first two or three minutes after reboot when it would play like a dream. SURREAL. I've looked at the task manager and can't see anything starting up at that point that would account for this.
I rolled back the drivers and again, it seemed to make the problem go away except when I do that - it plays nicely, but won't recognise the headphones.
That was last night.
This MORNING, no matter WHAT I do - even trying to rollback and play without headphones - it's back to glitching. Or rather, shorter files play great, but longer larger files like the latest Battlstar Galactica are practically unwatchable.
I've tried updating to the latest drivers, to no avail. I really...I'm upset by this, worried by this, have tried everything I can think of (including installing older versions of drivers) and nothing's helping.
Can anyone shed any light on this? I just wanna watch TV and make crazy videos like any normal fan!
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Date: 2008-04-13 05:08 pm (UTC)normally, this would only apply to games, but some of the audio components might help you out.
see here for download details.
its also possible some codecs may not be working properly - if you can find out which ones, try replacing those.
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Date: 2008-04-13 06:02 pm (UTC)Basically it got to the point that I couldn't watch anything without it glitching every few seconds and with the drive broken and all... Well, I have a new one now, and it's very shiny and wonderous. And I couldn't possibly have afforded it except that I'm about to get a large chunk of tax back from the government and my dad decided to be awesome and loan me the rest of the cash until I get a job and can pay him back.
Thanks for the advice though: it's nice to know I didn't miss anything obvious I could have tried. :)