Videos started spiking lately

Hey guys, anyone knows why my DivX/AVI videos has started spiking lately? Please dont tell me to download VLC Player or any other player. I use DivX codec from Divx.com and it hasnt been spiking but suddenly it has started spiking. And i use real player to play the video.

Additional information:
when it spikes the audio continues but the picture stops and after the spike the picture will jump ( move fast ) to the part the audio is. ( like fast-forward ) it spikes for 1 to 3 seconds sometimes.

 

Use task manager or some other resource monitor to make sure your cpu is not getting pegged. If you run out of cpu power things will spike/skip.

Also if you have not done so in awhile defragment your harddrive, if the file has been fragmented the skip can be from the hdd having to seek out the next piece of the file instead of it being continuous.

Thats the first 2 things to do, after that it gets more complicated.

 

yup done already i use diskeeper to defrag yesterday, it still spikes. tell me about the complicated way.

 

Run a scan with spybot S&D and adaware. Report back results. You might have spyware.

 

I have already done all the scans and stuff.

 

Try Process Explorer and see if you can catch what's stealing CPU time.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

 

ok ill give it a shot..

 

Hmm ok heres the result..not quite sure what to look for, mind helping me take a look?

Heres picture 1:


And picture 2:


Thanks.

 

Right mouse click the column titles and add the column that gives you individual CPU usage graphs per process. That'll be the easiest way to see a spike.

 

hmm ok, i right clicked the column tile and select "select columns" and a window pop-up and has many times not sure what to click.

 

under the "Process Performance" tab select "CPU History." This will let you see what process is spiking.

 

woah 94 processes open? On my G1s after I optimized Vista I get maybe 60...

 

lol..i was 90+ process ever since i got the notebook ( 2 month ago )

thanks loopty..checking now

 

You guys are making things more complicated than they need to be, all we need to know is while playing a video if he sees 100% cpu usage and if when it spikes thats when it skips. Just good ol' windows task manager can do that.

 

hmm it seems like on the "System Idle Process" process is running high, what its problem? does urs run so high all the time too?

Here the picture:

 

No that's normal. I don't see any spikes at all. Did you take that screen shot right after a spike?

 

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i dont see any spike at all. its all smooth other than the System Idle Process

 

than are this spikes?

picture:

 

Have you tried reinstalling Real player or (I know you didn't seem thrilled by this idea) testing video playback in other programs (i.e. WMP)? What programs were running in the background? Have you tried disabling or uninstalling any virus scanners?

~ Brett

 

yup i tried on WMP, RealPlayer, Ares and DivX ( last choice because pixel visible )

 

Kill QTTask, Realsched. As well, you might want to turn off SearchIndexing, as that is commonly associated with spikes.

 

hmm ok ill try, thanks

 

Read up on NBR Vista tweaks thread This may overall solve your problem, it may not be one underlying problem, but several issues causing those spikes. Vista is very bloated out of the box, and you need to streamline it, especially if your playing high detail/resource hogging games.

 

So wait... you did or did not try it without a virus scanner installed? You got pauses with all the media players?

~ Brett

 

That's really weird. No I didn't see any spikes on your screen shot. I don't know what to tell you. Good luck with everyone else's suggestions. If all software check out fine I would start checking temperatures and throttling.

 

ill try to fix it, thanks anyway guys

 

Hrm, you were watching videos.

Maybe a video overlay problem? Did you recently change your video card drivers?