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    aspire 6920G video playback

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by elephpant, Jan 17, 2009.

  1. elephpant

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    Hi guys
    I have a very strange issue with my aspire 6920G laptop. When I've re-installed vista using recovery disks, I notice that my video files are playing a little choppy (not that I have frames drop but it seems a bit slow). It happens with plain xvid movies. I have K-lite codec pack.
    I've tried WMP and media player classic, tried about 10 different nvidia drivers from acer and laptopvideo2go.com, but none helped... The most strange thing that when I've just bought this laptop video playback was flawless.
    Does anyone have same problem here? Please help.
     
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    Tinselworm Notebook Deity

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    do you have the latest Nvidia Drivers?
     
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  3. elephpant

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    anyone? plz :)
     
    elephpant, Jan 19, 2009
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    My brother had a similar problem when he switched from XP to Vista. He used VLC Player. I solve his problem - I told him to change the "Video OUTPUT" settings from "default" to "DirectX video output". I've no idea how to change this setting in WMP though, look through the setting you might find something similar..
    I think by "default" the players are using D3D and sometimes this can cause choppy/low quality playback.
     
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    ATG, thanks for suggestion, however in VLC video playback seems same...
    I've found one more thing - if you disable "Inverse telecine" in video driver options ("adjust video image settings" page) video playback seems a bit better, but still not perfect. Any ideas?
     
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