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hawk28

12-01-2007, 01:43 PM

I'm running windows xp media center and everytime I try to play a quicktime movie, the video freezes but the audio keeps playing fine. My cpu will be at 100% when this happens. It also happens on some .wmv movies. I know my computer is old but, when I boot into linux and play these movies, they play just fine. Here are my computer specs.

Processor: AMD athlon xp 1600+ 1.4ghz
Memory: 704mb sdram 133mhz
Viideo: Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 256mb
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA7ZXE rev. 2.1

any ideas?

tokenuser

12-01-2007, 09:59 PM

Upgrade to latest quicktime.

hawk28

12-01-2007, 11:52 PM

I'm using 7.3, I'm pretty sure that's the latest version.

masherscf

12-02-2007, 12:01 AM

I'm using 7.3, I'm pretty sure that's the latest version.

Quicktime is really, really, poorly optimized for Windows. Try using VLC to play back the files. If it makes a difference, you have your culprit.

hawk28

12-02-2007, 01:36 AM

cool, vlc plays much better! still doesn't do h264 but i'd say that's my computer

thanks!