Movie won't play right

[CompuDocs]

I've got an .avi about 600 mb on a cd and I use Quicktime 4 to play it. It plays ok, but if I copy it to the hard drive, it plays slower & choppy. This only happens on a particular PC with an ATI xpert 2000 32 MB AGP, 256 MB RAM, Athlon 750, Gigabyte GA7IX mobo. If I copy it to any other PC, it runs fine.

Any ideas?


Charlie


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"Oh Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed for the umpteenth time.

[MacGyver]

Check to make sure you have the right codec's installed.... do a search of the forums for "CODEC" because I remember this discussion a while back. Does the problem happen if you try playing the avi with media player?

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sHIFT hAPPENS

[StevePorter]

Change your hard drive and CD drive settings to use DMA mode and see if that helps...

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[Antimatter]

I've seen a similar problem with Quicktime 4. That was a video driver problem with a Creative TNT2 M64 though. The fix for that was to install manufacturer specific video drivers instead of Reference drivers.

[CompuDocs]

Oops. I made a mistake. The movie file was a .mov file and not an .avi. It was made on a Mac.

Still working with codecs and video drivers.

Anything else to try?

Charlie


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"Oh Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed for the umpteenth time.

[Antimatter]

What OS are you running in? Win2k has mediocre multimedia capabilites at best.
Quicktime 4 seems to be a bit buggy and slow as well.

Check your hard drive speed & access times.
If you've got a fragmented, slow hard drive you're not going to get much performance out of anything.