Extremely choppy video - system specs listed

12-13-2008 9:25 PM |

I have netflix which uses silverlight.  The video is extremely choppy.  The netflix tech support sent me to smoothhd.com and the video of Bon Jovi was also choppy.  CPU utilization is at 100%.

 My system specs:

• AMD Athlon 2500+ (speed confirmed w/ CPU Speed 2.5)
  
• ATI Radeon 9200SE 128MB ram, driver version 6.14.0010.6614 (confirmed w/ directx diagnostics tool)  this is the most recent version.
  
•  1.5 Gigabytes of ram.
• 150 gigabytes of hard drive space formatted in NTFS w/  54 GB used.
•  Windows XP w/ all updates
• .NET version 3.5 
• mobo ASUS A7N8X deluxe
  

Re: Extremely choppy video - system specs listed

12-13-2008 9:49 PM |

 Video is choppy in 800x600 as well as 2048x1536 mode.  I'm piping video out of the RCA jack to a 42" standard dimension (non-widescreen) TV.

My internet bandwidth when tested with speakeasy.net is 5,000 kbs on a bad day.

Re: Extremely choppy video - system specs listed

12-15-2008 6:26 PM |

Can you provide a little more detail on what you mean by 'extremely choppy' video?   Knowing more about the exact behavior you're seeing would help us narrow down the issue.

Is the experience consistent?   meaning is your video always in a state where it displays just a few frames per second and never recovers?   Is the playback so choppy that you can estimate the number of frames being drawn per second?

Does the behavior change at all when you go into full-screen mode for either site?

Re: Extremely choppy video - system specs listed

12-16-2008 2:04 AM |

The experience is NOT consistent.  Some scenes do fine while others are so slow you can count the frames.  For instance this scene in Ghostbusters is fine:

 The above image was taken at 800x600 resolution. Right click and view image if you want to see bigger version.

However the football scene in Flash Gordon has very choppy motion. One frame he is standing, the next he's on his back, the next he's up again....

The above image was taken at 800x600 resolution. Right click and view image if you want to see bigger version.

Here is a screen capture of the same scene with high resolution:

1792x1344 Flash Gordon

Notice the CPU utilization isn't much different.   Full screen vs IE vs Firefox window does not seem to impact performance.  Resolution does not seem to impact performance.  I'm currently piping out of the VGA port into a Samsung 900DF monitor.  Also, neither one of these movies seems to be maxing out the CPU. 

Re: Extremely choppy video - system specs listed

12-16-2008 8:26 PM |

Found the problem.  I turned off SnoopFree and now it seems to work.  That's an odd software conflict.