G400 TV Marvel problem with movies

[GunX]

Is this somethnig normal ? Every movie I try to watch with Media Player, no importance what ver is, under Win9x (2000 never tested) it lasts about 7 sec to open it, unless I got the tunner in the background. This pause at some point, - after 3 sec I think- , it's verry annonying, even the mouse can't be moved sometimes. Not to mention that with Adobe Premiere 5.0, it's impossible to edit anything, every click & move I do I have to wait 7-8 sec to see results....is this normal, or I got smth wrong ?

[Scooter]

I'm not sure about this, but could it have something to do with the busmastering being off?

Not sure...

[Maccara]

GunX, you did not mention what version of mediaplayer you were using. I'd suspect 7 since I had the same problem using that one. Downgrading to 6.4 solved all problems.

This is definitely not a problem with busmastering.

It seems that 7 is searching for "something" during startup. I suspect CD or MP3 player related. (can anyone confirm?)

I wouldn't suggest upgrading to 7 anyway, if you do not need the new features. There are no improvements of 6.4 feats.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

I don't have WMP7 myself(I use 6.4) but I believe by default it looks for a web update on starting up.I could be wrong!!

[GunX]

Any version of Media Player, same problem, 6, 6.4 and 7 tested

[Maccara]

If searching for a web update does hog that amount of processing power (nothing is usable for the startup period) that only shows the remarkable programming abilities of MS :-)

Usually I have got such slow-downs only when software is trying to access hardware that does not exist. That's why I was thinking it might be trying to access MP3/CD players.

I recently did a fresh install of Windows and I definitely did not install MP7 on this platform and 6.4 has not posed any problems. BTW, when you are doing the downgrade, make sure you get everything from 7 uninstalled first; otherwise it will not help.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

GunX, maybe the guys on the desktop video forum could enlighten you on your problem!

[GunX]

But does anybody else with Marvel G400 TV got this pause before viewing any movie ? I thought this is from the card correction functions, because the second movie I open it comes just as fine, in 0.5 sec. Also if the Tunner is running, no pause again. But this second movie in full screen looks very bad !

The big problem reamins the Adobe Premiere where this timing makes impposible any mouse clicks