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  • Yemble
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2002
    • 3

    "Popping" Noises On Movie Playback (All Players) WinXP

    If you suffer from regular popping and crackling noises during movie playback on ANY software player running under WinXP, then you MAY be suffering from the same obscure problem that was affecting my PC.

    After many wild goose chases, I finally tracked the problem down to the "Windows Image Acquisition Service (WIA)". If this service is in a running state during movie playback then the sound problems will occur (at least they do on my PC). The WIA service must be set to a disabled state in order to stop it being started (manual state is NOT sufficient, since Windows will re-start it when any player is launched!).

    It is not at all obvious to me why this service is being started in the first place and why it should affect sound output in the way that it does. However, it is clear that you can waste many hours seeking the solution based on false assumptions, eg. that this must be a CODEC or DirectX problem, when in fact it is neither!!!

    This problem may only be relevant to certain hardware combinations....

    ....my rig is as follows:

    ASUS A7V (VIA Apollo KT133)
    Athlon 950 (O/C @ 1070)
    SB Live! Value
    Radeon 7500
    512Mb RAM
    Windows XP + all updates
    PowerDVD XP, WinDVD 3.1, ATI Player 7.5.... etc....

    Here's hoping this helps someone else out there!
  • 1 Smelly Fish
    Super Member
    Super Member
    • Nov 2001
    • 274

    #2
    Thank You Yemble, your time searching to find the problem i am sure will help others out heaps.

    Cheers

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    • FlashIFO
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Feb 2002
      • 8

      #3
      popping winxp

      I tried windows xp and I flush it. One of the reason was that I had to much audio problem specialy with compress audio. Almost everybody seems to think that xp is a great software but every one that I know who use it have weird problem with it.

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      • Alpha1471
        Junior Member
        Junior Member
        • Aug 2002
        • 1

        #4
        I read about this problem on the net, and one person has claimed the problem to be a PCI video card. He switched to an AGP video card and the popping noises stopped.

        So, a PCI sound card + PCI video card + Windows XP seems to be the cause of the crackling sounds. I also heard that ACPI also causes problems, but there's a big debate about that.
        Last edited by Alpha1471; 14 Aug 2002, 02:19 AM.

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        • Nielchiano
          Member
          Member
          • Aug 2002
          • 70

          #5
          I think that this problem has nothing to do with any specific hardware/software.
          I think that this occures just because the sound buffer (weather soft/hardware) can not be rifilled in time. I think that this is generaly because something is taking up too much processor power at that given moment.
          That can be a service (WIA), or an interupt-chain (PCI-card stuff), or whatever else...

          However, all those tips might work, since they all do the same thing, reduce processor demands

          Cheers,
          Nielchiano

          PS: Yemble, you must have a hell of a lot of patience, wow
          We were all newbies once... and we all needed some help once, so lets once help the newbies.

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