Viewing MS DV AVI

[1ne2wo]

I'm using Win 98 SE. I capture DV AVIs, but when I try to view them theyre "jerky" although theres no dropped frames....in XP they work great...but i cant use XP

 

[icrf]

DV videos are very large, so you would have to have a good hard drive read speed (which I'm sure it's good enough, unless you're doing other HDD intensive tasks simultaneously) and a good processor to decode it realtime. If you're talking about dual booting on the same hardware, then it sounds like there's more cpu overhead when reading from disk in 98 than xp.

Just throwing some ideas out. What hardware are you running this on? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[1ne2wo]

yeah, i only have 400MHz and 256mb RAM.
but the thing is they work great in XP...probably there's nothing i can do about this..

 

[icrf]

Find some software that acts like task manager in xp, btu runs in 98. Check and see how much CPU time it takes when you're playing the video. There's a "system" process in 2k that handles the overhead for things like i/o, might come up that was in 98, too. If you have lots of leftover CPU time while playing, the problem lies elsewhere.

For that matter, the DV codec you're using might be less optimized in 98 than xp...who knows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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