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Funny DVD Rom playback
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Funny DVD Rom playback
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 10:57 am
Posted by Matthew Fox
(37 messages posted)
Hi ... any ideas about this .... my DVD plays fine, except when I connect to the
internet (56k dial up), when the sound is very jittery and slow.... unwatchable...
any ideas?
(Athlon XP 2000, 768Mb Ram, 64Mb nVidia graphics)
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re: Funny DVD Rom playback
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 11:17 am
Posted by Bean
(122 messages posted)
Crappy server + crappy connection = crap
56k is not great for streaming video or audio. The server from which you listen
the audio from may also be slow. If this problem has never happened before, it is
most likely a software issue.
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 10:57 am, Matt Fox wrote:
>Hi ... any ideas about this .... my DVD plays fine, except when I connect to the
>internet (56k dial up), when the sound is very jittery and slow.... unwatchable...
>any ideas?
>
>(Athlon XP 2000, 768Mb Ram, 64Mb nVidia graphics)
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re: Funny DVD Rom playback
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 11:19 am
Posted by Bean
(122 messages posted)
Excuse my last reply there. I did not fully understand the problem before replying
:) sorry
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 10:57 am, Matt Fox wrote:
>Hi ... any ideas about this .... my DVD plays fine, except when I connect to the
>internet (56k dial up), when the sound is very jittery and slow.... unwatchable...
>any ideas?
>
>(Athlon XP 2000, 768Mb Ram, 64Mb nVidia graphics)
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Performance issues
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 12:56 pm
Posted by Ricer46
(20448 messages posted)
Scan for viruses if you haven't recently
D/L Spybot
and AdAware and
run them to eliminate spyware.
Go here and read
about XP services.
Read the articles listed in the Performance
link in the sidebar.
You should have at least 512MB of memory.
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 10:57 am, Matt Fox wrote:
>Hi ... any ideas about this .... my DVD plays fine, except when I connect to the
>internet (56k dial up), when the sound is very jittery and slow.... unwatchable...
>any ideas?
>
>(Athlon XP 2000, 768Mb Ram, 64Mb nVidia graphics)
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re: Funny DVD Rom playback
Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 3:26 pm
Posted by CD
(186 messages posted)
Almost all modems do most of their work in software. If your modem is hogging the
CPU, or if it is sharing an IRQ with your sound card, it is probably the cause of
your jittery sound. Switching to a hardware modem will probably solve your problem,
but they cost $60-$70, where software modems cost $10. I guess it depends on how
important it is to you to watch dvds on your computer and connect to the internet
at the same time.
Cheers,
CD
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