Choppy, choppy, choppy

[B.C.Bugger]

Hi all,
Just made a video using MM2 and it plays fine when I view
it on the storyboard. To see how the codec process
affected quality I sent the movie back to myself. When I
went to view the attached file the playback was crazy
choppy... I'm thinking, this is weird! So I burn the
same movie to a cd-rom so I can just send the thing via
regular post. Same thing happens, like the frame rate is
too slow or something. Crappy video card, yes NVIDIA 8
MB that came with the system, CPU, Athlon 950mhz w/640MB
RAM. Why would it play properly while in MM2 and not
with Mediaplayer 9? From what I've seen on the NG MP9 is
a dog... could be my problem?
TIA :)

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

When editing or pre-viewing the movie in MM2, you are working in a 15 fps
environment. When you save the movie - say to a 30 fps movie file, the
playback of the movie is much more demanding, pointing to issues with your
computer's capabilities to handle the playback.

PapaJohn

"B.C.Bugger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all,
> Just made a video using MM2 and it plays fine when I view
> it on the storyboard. To see how the codec process
> affected quality I sent the movie back to myself. When I
> went to view the attached file the playback was crazy
> choppy... I'm thinking, this is weird! So I burn the
> same movie to a cd-rom so I can just send the thing via
> regular post. Same thing happens, like the frame rate is
> too slow or something. Crappy video card, yes NVIDIA 8
> MB that came with the system, CPU, Athlon 950mhz w/640MB
> RAM. Why would it play properly while in MM2 and not
> with Mediaplayer 9? From what I've seen on the NG MP9 is
> a dog... could be my problem?
> TIA :)

[chk]

So, PapaJohn, do you have any suggestions how to tweak his
system. I have a similar problem.

>-----Original Message-----
>When editing or pre-viewing the movie in MM2, you are
working in a 15 fps
>environment. When you save the movie - say to a 30 fps
movie file, the
>playback of the movie is much more demanding, pointing to
issues with your
>computer's capabilities to handle the playback.
>
>PapaJohn
>
>"B.C.Bugger" > wrote in message
...
>> Hi all,
>> Just made a video using MM2 and it plays fine when I view
>> it on the storyboard. To see how the codec process
>> affected quality I sent the movie back to myself. When I
>> went to view the attached file the playback was crazy
>> choppy... I'm thinking, this is weird! So I burn the
>> same movie to a cd-rom so I can just send the thing via
>> regular post. Same thing happens, like the frame rate is
>> too slow or something. Crappy video card, yes NVIDIA 8
>> MB that came with the system, CPU, Athlon 950mhz w/640MB
>> RAM. Why would it play properly while in MM2 and not
>> with Mediaplayer 9? From what I've seen on the NG MP9 is
>> a dog... could be my problem?
>> TIA :)
>
>
>.
>

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

My main computer is an 866 Mhz with 512 Mhz of RAM. If I make a high quality
movie and play it back in WMP at full screen, the playback isn't smooth. If
I play it back at 200%, 100% or 50% size, it would be smooth. If this is the
case, it indicates the basic capability of and 'fine-tuning' status of my
system. At most times I'll simply watch it smaller rather than take the time
to tune it up (if it's the computer capability, the tune-up won't fully
resolve it anyway).

The same movie would play very smoothly at full screen on my wife's newer
1.8 Mhz computer with the same amount of RAM.

I would think that, if the movie previews fine in MM2, then the saved movie
file is fine also. But, depending on the defrag status of the hard drive,
the saved movie might be many pieces on the hard drive (fragmented) - I've
had movie files in as many as 200 such fragments - all pulled together into
one location by the defrag process, which enhances playback.

Lot's of factors, but hard drive speed, free space, defrag status, other
running apps taking energy - things like that. Just tuning up the hard drive
and letting the playback process have as much of the computer's energy as
you can give it, would be things I'd check.

I don't know anything about B.C.Bugger's hard drive or status, or yours, so
I'm really kind of guessing here with very little to go by.


PapaJohn


"chk" > wrote in message
...
> So, PapaJohn, do you have any suggestions how to tweak his
> system. I have a similar problem.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >When editing or pre-viewing the movie in MM2, you are
> working in a 15 fps
> >environment. When you save the movie - say to a 30 fps
> movie file, the
> >playback of the movie is much more demanding, pointing to
> issues with your
> >computer's capabilities to handle the playback.
> >
> >PapaJohn
> >
> >"B.C.Bugger" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Hi all,
> >> Just made a video using MM2 and it plays fine when I view
> >> it on the storyboard. To see how the codec process
> >> affected quality I sent the movie back to myself. When I
> >> went to view the attached file the playback was crazy
> >> choppy... I'm thinking, this is weird! So I burn the
> >> same movie to a cd-rom so I can just send the thing via
> >> regular post. Same thing happens, like the frame rate is
> >> too slow or something. Crappy video card, yes NVIDIA 8
> >> MB that came with the system, CPU, Athlon 950mhz w/640MB
> >> RAM. Why would it play properly while in MM2 and not
> >> with Mediaplayer 9? From what I've seen on the NG MP9 is
> >> a dog... could be my problem?
> >> TIA :)
> >
> >
> >.
> >