hi all.
We had a hard drive go bad in a koisk and we put a new hard drive in and now
when we play Quicktime file they do not play smothly, they stop and go and the
audio studders. The system is a Windows XP P4 2.8Ghz, with 2 gig ram, 80gig HD
and internal video card (motherboard). These QT files play fine on my other
system. they also play fine in the QT player. they just play bad in director. I
am using Director MX. All drivers are up to date. Any ideas on what might be
causing it to happen as it worked before and all I changed was the Hard Drive.
both HD were 7200 rpm drives. also i know using the internal video card is not
the greatest thing but it did work be for.

thanks.

If the only thing that changed was the hard drive, then I would suspect the
hard drive first. I'm guessing that this new drive may have either a smaller
cache size or is restricting the data stream in some other way.

Well it is possible, but i can not see that a 40gig hard drive from 4 years ago
would be faster then a newer 80gig drive but i will check. the only other thing
to try is to buy a video card and see if that works. ideally i would like to
figure out why it is not running smooth.

KenSneeden posted in macromedia.director.basics:

> Well it is possible, but i can not see that a 40gig hard drive
> from 4 years ago would be faster then a newer 80gig drive but i
> will check. the only other thing to try is to buy a video card and
> see if that works. ideally i would like to figure out why it is
> not running smooth.

Slight possibility that the new drive needs to be defragged? If those
are LARGE video files, they might be severely fragmented. If the
throughput on the videos is already pushing the system's capabilities,
defragging /might/ improve things.

Worth trying before getting a new display card, anyway.


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KenSneeden wrote:
> We had a hard drive go bad in a koisk and we put a new hard drive in
> and now when we play Quicktime file they do not play smothly, they
> stop and go and the audio studders.

Assuming it's a PATA drive and you have few straws left to clutch, it is
possible that when the old HDD was going bad the OS put it into PIO mode
instead of DMA mode. In Device Manager, go to the properties for the
Primary/Secondary (as appropriate) IDE channel and check under the Advanced
Settings.

Andrew

i already checked the DMA it is ok.

it is a new hard drive so defraging will not do anything.
I think i will try to see if i can swap out a card with one of our other
computer to rule out codec or onboard video

What everyone thoughts on maybe the newer quicktime is over taxing director as to a older QuickTime?

"KenSneeden" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:gb8jb4$gnm$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> What everyone thoughts on maybe the newer quicktime is over taxing
> director as to a older QuickTime?

Hi,

I dont see how this would influence the performance of the existing
system.
You did not change anything on the system other the HD, right?
Or?

Richard

yea nothing else changed but the HD.

here is something weird. I put in a radeon 2400 HD pro 512 Ram and did not
install drive, i just wanted to see if it would play better. it played fine
with the standard VGA windows driver. as soon as i install the OEM driver it
goes back to studdering or stop video motion. We also bought a video card for
it and that is a GeForce 8500GT 1gig ram, it did the same thing when i
installed the driver for that. So i am woundering if there is someting wrong
with the motherboard. Video works fine, just not in director but maybe director
is adding enough overhead that it causes the video to stop.
I tried to keep the VGA driver but it keeps asking to install hardware and
only give me AIT for option.

KenSneeden posted in macromedia.director.basics:

> i already checked the DMA it is ok.
>
> it is a new hard drive so defraging will not do anything.
> I think i will try to see if i can swap out a card with one of
> our other computer to rule out codec or onboard video

Are any of these files > 2GB?

Was the old HD formatted as NTFS while the new is FAT or FAT32?



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