Strange A/V Sync Problem

[alamhearst]

This may be a stupid question, but I'm fairly new.

I downloaded a video and:

-In Windows Media Player the sound is fine, but the video freezes every couple seconds so it is like watching a series of still images strung together.

-In VirtualDub (which I know nothing about) the video is fine, but the sound is stuttered in the same manner that the video stutters in Media Player.

If I extract the sound in VirtualDub to .wav it sounds normal in Media Player.

What do I do??

**Sorry, I accidentally posted this in Software originally.

[benderman]

You didn't tell very much about your computer. Maybe the computer/hdd/vga is too slow, your soundcard is too old...

[alamhearst]

It is entirely possible that my computer is too slow. Please check this thread later, when I'm at home I will post my comp's specs. Thanks for the reply!

[alamhearst]

OK, here my specs:

OS: Win 98 SE

Processor: Pentium MMX (I think 266 MHz)

RAM: 32 MB

VGA Card: YAMAHA OPL3-SAx WDM (I believe this is my card, it was under Sound, video and game controllers in the Device Manager. I'm sure it's pretty low grade.)

You can see I don't know a lot about this. I usually just watch videos rather than editing them.

The one thing that makes me think this is not a speed/memory problem is that the choppiness is a definite pattern, rather than random freezing.

Hope someone can help. Thanx.

[setarip]

"Processor: Pentium MMX (I think 266 MHz)

RAM: 32 MB"

This is your problem. This configuration is barely sufficient to run Win98, let alone an overhead intensive video.

[alamhearst]

Would additional RAM help, or is this most likely a processor problem?

[setarip]

Both...

[alamhearst]

damn

thanks