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**Haig** · 7 December 1999, 13:48

Hi Matt,

What default player are you talking about?

What titles are these and from what production houses are they from?

Is the stuttuer happening on the tv or on the Pc monitor or on both?

When there is the stutter, is your hd spinning?

Is DMA enabled for the dvd drive?

Are all tsr's closed when you play your dvd?

Do the stutters happen in even intervals?

If you are having the stutter problem with a few different softDVD apps, it's more likely to be a configuration problem somewhere in your system.

Next time you play a dvd title, keep the system monitor running and monitor the cpu ussage. Tell me what value this is when you get the stutter.

Haig

**mathew** · 7 December 1999, 14:53

Hi Haig :]

Thanks for your reply,Im starting to get a bit fedup with the problem :[

What default player are you talking about?
A:-The software dvd player that came with the Max [ZORAN] I think but it looks just like the Cinemaster player my bro has got.
What titles are these and from what production houses are they from?
A:-Godzilla [Columbia tristar] Matrix [?] Armageddon [?] sorry I borrowed these films!
Is the stuttuer happening on the tv or on the Pc monitor or on both?
A:-Just the t.v
When there is the stutter, is your hd spinning?
A:- Not sure as the T.V. is downstairs and the P.C is up so I cannot watch them togeather!!!
Is DMA enabled for the dvd drive?
A:-Yes
Are all tsr's closed when you play your dvd?
Q:- What do you mean by tsr's???
Do the stutters happen in even intervals?
A:-No

All I can be sure of is that this does'nt happen when I watch DVD on my P.C

Haig I seem to have a problem with my sys monitor I will check again but the last time I looked at it it read 100% all the time.
I am looking for a non windows sys monitor to test with,Can you recommend one??

Thank you Regards Matt {:O)

**Kruzin** · 7 December 1999, 15:13

The DVD player that comes with the G400 is, in fact, Cinemaster. Not Zoran. That was the software that come with the G200...

And TSRs are programs running in the background (DOS based drivers, dodads running in your system tray, fastfind, virus checkers, etc...)

**Bixler** · 7 December 1999, 18:54

You can identify TSR's by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete ONCE ONLY and writing down the list of programs running in the dark shadows of Windoze...they are the cause of many problems such as what you are describing. Try "end task" option on them (one by one) then doing Ctrl+Alt+Delete again and selecting the next, testing each time you close a program...you should look for virus checkers, diagnostic programs, other things that 'check in' on your system intermittently.

Post a list of these programs in the Ctrl+Alt+Delete window, and I bet you'll find your problem. Good Luck !!

Forgot! Leave "Systray" and "Windows Explorer" alone! Losing them can cause odd things to happen.

[This message has been edited by Bixler (edited 08 December 1999).]

**Haig** · 7 December 1999, 20:36

Hi Matt,

Something's not right if your CPU usage is at 100% all the time with that kind of system.

Do what Bixler says and list all your tsr's.

We do have an issue with The Matrix where is will stutter every 20 minutes. If this is what you are getting, then we are looking into it with Ravisent.

You can also try windows resource meter instead of its sysmon.

Haig

**mathew** · 8 December 1999, 13:39

Hi Haig

here is a list of what I have running in my:-

Power strip
Direct Control
Getright
Rain
ICQ
Systray
Creative Launcher
Pdesk
CpuNumber
Rnaapp ??
Ahqtb ??

Not to sure about what the last three are "I suppose they are abbreviations for something"
When I used the "Resource Meter" it reads as follows:-

71% 74% These results
71% And also 74% Look OK ????
80% 85% "Dont they"

Whad a ya think Matt {:O)

**overide** · 8 December 1999, 14:03

I have a similar problem as Mathew.
I found out that it only occured when watching on the TV, when viewing the film on the monitor there are no stuttering.

The stuttering for me occures in intervals, like once every second. But they only occur when I play NTSC, region 1 DVD's on PAL out.
If i run a PAL, region 2 DVD there is no stuttering.

This must be a bug somewhere in matrox drivers and it's getting a bit annoying I must say. I thought this problem would go away when matrox released their new drivers but nooo.

I have tried to terminate all background programs but there is still stuttering.

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Dual P2 450
MSI 6120 MoBo
512MB PC-100 SDRAM
Adaptec 2940U2W Scsi controller
3x 9,1GB U2W Harddrives
SB Awe64 Gold
3Com FastEtherlink XL (3C905b-TX)

**Gavin** · 8 December 1999, 16:34

I get the same stutter with DVDMax enabled on my G400. This happens with the default Matrox player (default Cinemaster/Ravisent engine). My tv-system is PAL (for Germany).
This happens regardless of the DVD watched.

I've tried (all Region 2):

*Interview with the Vampire
*Sense and Sensibility
*The Big Lebowski
*The English Patient
*The Matrix
*Shakespeare in Love

With DVDMax enabled, the picture has 'stutters' on the TV while it
hasn't those on the monitor...

**SPSUguy** · 8 December 1999, 18:30

Hey Matthew,

I'm no Matrox tech, but you have a bunch of stuff running in back ground. Closing most of these should help you out some.

Power strip - I'm not sure if you need this on all the time
Direct Control - Not sure what this is
Getright - Only need this when you're downloading
Rain - This is for "cooling" cpu's via software. I've heard it really don't help much.
ICQ - ***** This thing is a resource hog. Turn it off!
Systray - Leave this on!
Creative Launcher - Disable this
Pdesk - I would leave this.
CpuNumber - Don't know what this is.
Rnaapp ?? - I think you only need this when you're online.
Ahqtb ?? - Don't know what this is.

I don't know about you, but I'm usually not playing games or internet surfing when I watch DVD movies. So Disable everything except exploer, systray, and pdesk.

Also, you may try going to http://www.dvdutils.com They have a newer cinemaster engine than what's on the matrox disk. It works better for me, but some people say it works worse. You can always try it out and go back.

Hope this helps.

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Abit BH6, Celeron 450, Matrox G400 32mb "MAX", 256mb ram, IBM 10GB, DVD 5x, MX300

**Haig** · 8 December 1999, 19:04

Hi Matt,

Those figures still seem high but it's probably due to all the stuff you have loaded up.

Do what SPSU suggested and see if this helps.

Override - What you are getting is normal. We won't support PAL to NTSC and vice versa.

The dvd app will not convert frame rates on the fly.

Gavin - How often are your stutters?
Are these titles specifically for region 2?

Haig

**Maggi** · 9 December 1999, 02:37

Little addition to Haig's comment on NTSC-2-PAL and vice versa:

NTSC is 30FPS, PAL is 25 FPS ...

When you try to playback a NTSC DVD on a PAL system, every 6th frame will be dropped/skipped to maintain 25FPS.

To avoid that phenomenon, you'd need a TV that supports NTSC with 30FPS, but those are a bit more expensive than the regular ones.

Hope this cleared a few misunderstandings ...

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")

**Maggi** · 9 December 1999, 02:45

btw, 'The Matrix' - region code 2 - runs perfectly fluid on my PAL home system ...

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")
and a brand new Pioneer 303S SCSI-DVD

**adamhamilton** · 9 December 1999, 03:12

Maggi,

What is the quality like of your region 2 "Matrix" DVD - I've heard comments that some region 2 DVDs aren't as good quality as the region 1 versions and some don't have all the extras?

Thanks,

**Goc** · 9 December 1999, 03:13

The reason why your System monitor is showing 100 % is probably because you run rain. Personally I haven't used Rain but the other prog called CPUidle, and the same thing happened to me too. though, the DVD ran just fine

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