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sdjensen

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I am having some problems with media center. I have ripped my dvd to my harddrive (eSata) and uses My Movies to see the dvd's inside Media Center. But when I play the dvd's playback stops randomly and I need to re-start playback manually.

VLC Player has no problem playing these files - only Media Center that is acting up?

AHCI is activated.

Can't locate PhysX setting in Nvidia settings, so I guess it is not enabled for my GPU.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

some technical info about my computer:
Intel Atom 330Processor
Intel ION
4GB SDRAM
320GB System Harddrive
1TB eSata Data Drive (DVD's are locatad here)
nVidia Geforce 9400
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
sdjensen, I am not sure your small form factor device has enough muster to run video in WMC. That being said, download and install the latest nVidia drivers from nVidia to get the nVidia Control Panel. Atom processors are for very basic devices that are intended for email/web surfing/basic doc editing. If you have just one video adaptor Physx should be disabled.
 
I don't see why it should not be able to run a vidio in WMC since VLC player has no problem doing this. I have the latest nVidia driver for the ION.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
I have an updated version of the ASUS REVO with a duel core chip.

I have done some research and it seem that the problem only exists, when I have subtitles enabled - if I disable subtitles everything is fine.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
AngelProcesser said:
can you please list the dual core chip?
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Intel Atom N230 is a single core 1.6GHz chip (512kb L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)
Intel Atom N330 is a duel core 1.6GHz chip (1MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB, 64bit support)

and I bought a version with the n330 chip.

But I still no believe this is a hardware problem for 2 reasons. There is not problem when subtitles is disabled and VLC player have no problem with playing the same movies.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
I am not sure what the winqual help is for - but yes, I can find the nVidia ION on it.

I would like to post the WEI if I knew what it was. Please elaborate.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
WEI:
Processor: 3,3
Memory: 4,6
Grafic: 4,3
Game Grafic: 5,3
Primary disk: 5,4

Sorry if the terms are wrong, but they are on danish on my system.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
As i thought, the bottleneck in your system is your CPU.

Try not running other processes during playback. As I do not know what processes are running on startup or are started when a program is opened on your PC, I cannot give specific advise, but this is a standard procedure to stop resource hungry resources. Doing so may free up your CPU for heavy tasks like WMC - but read on...

I have read several reviews of your PC and none tested WMC as your PC's CPU/Chipset combo does not support DirectX acceleration and has a decoder issue but intead relies on the nVidia drivers for GPU acceleration - which is why the other players run 1080p fine and WMC does not.

Nvidia ION Platform: GeForce 9400 + Intel Atom (page 8) - X-bit labs
 
I had a look at the task manager while movie playback and the CPU is no where near 100% at any time and neither is the memory usage and please notice that I have no problem playing movies if I disable subtitles. The error is some how related to turning on subtitles and I really dont believe that subtitles is that demanding on CPU or memory usage.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
OK it's no where near 100% - what IS it at? What happens when you turn sub-titles on to CPU? I'm guessing max.

My CPU is at 4-5% recording HD Recorded TV in WMC.

Did you note the DirectX acceleration issue with the ION setup?
 
Swanson Photos said:
OK it's no where near 100% - what IS it at? What happens when you turn sub-titles on to CPU? I'm guessing max.

My CPU is at 4-5% recording HD Recorded TV in WMC.

Did you note the DirectX acceleration issue with the ION setup?
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I just monitored a playback session with the following result. CPU usage during playback aprox 20% very stable and there was a small peak to about 45% at the point where playback stops and WMC returns to the screen where you can start playback of the DVD. Memory usage was 70% with no peaks - also very stable.

ResourceCPU.jpg
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer Revo R3600
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Atom N330
Memory
4GB SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA ION
Hard Drives
320GB System Drive
1TB DataDrive
That's very interesting...I have 4GB of RAM also and my system has yet to peak at more than 40% of memory and like I said my CPU load is quite low during a recording session...my chipset is the Intel P35 and my CPU is an Intel E2180 Pentium Dual Core @ 2.66. Do you have a lot of background tasks or unneeded services running hogging memory?

I have disabled my resident protection from scanning writes to my recorded Recorded TV drive. This drive is scanned nightly, just in case, but you should be safe from malware on this drive as long as you do not add downloaded content to it or add copied movies from other sources.

Perhaps some system tweaks will help.
 
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