Random quick fast forward playback

[sparkypine]

It doesn't seem to matter which video format I use but, during playback occasionally the movie will quickly skip ahead a few frames and a second or two will get cut off. It is almost as if it suddenly fast forwards for a second then goes back to normal. It happens every couple of minutes and it ends up cutting off dialogue which can get annoying. I've had task manager running to see if anything is eating up cpu or ram, but I'm running a dual core with an nvidia PCIe x16 video card so subtle changes do not show...if there even are any.

Does this sound like a bogus codec? If so, how do you effectively clean out your codecs so that new ones can go in properly? Where is there a clean codec to use?

Does this sound like the antivirus software is interfering? I am using Kaspersky 6.

[benbryant]

Try VLC player or Media Player Classic to see if they help

Regards

[sparkypine]

My apologies for not being more clear, especially after reading through some of the other posts regarding my issue. I am using MP Classic and have a gig of RAM.

I saw something about trying a new version of ffdshow and something else regarding changing my NIC to a static speed from "auto". I can try those. Was hoping it would be something easy, like a bum codec that I would simply replace.

[anonymez]

welcome to the forum http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7017/smile6ku.gif

for how long has it been happening? does it happen randomly throughout the video or in the same spots? with all containers/codecs?

in any case do as ben said and play with VLC, it'll determine whether it's a codec problem or not

[sparkypine]

Ok, will try all the above. I will post my results as it appears this is not uncommon.

Thanks for the help.

[sparkypine]

Looks like Nvidia's newer drivers hosed my video card's performance. In fact, it was registering as a 6800 when it is only a 6600 PCIe with TurboCache. Using Drivercleaner and installing an older driver got it under control.