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    What is cauing my jittery video playback on my Dell?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by joegeek, Oct 14, 2018.

  1. joegeek

    joegeek Notebook Geek

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    I have 2 older Dell Studio laptops I stream my ISO, x264 and other videos with. I have tried VLC, Power DVD and 5kPlayer, same results

    It seems to be real bad when loading the bigger (30+ GB) ISO files, my Blu-Ray Iso backups.


    One has an Intel Core Duo T6500 2.1 + integrated chip Express graphics and it has real bad stuttering video playback


    The other plays fine and has an Intel Core Duo T6600 2.2 + Radeon 4500 HD graphics but plays video real nice.


    Would the graphic card be causing my issues?
     
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    joegeek, Oct 14, 2018
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    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    I'm thinking the jittery one is just not powerful enough.
     
    kojack, Oct 14, 2018
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    it can be a combination of things, but I agree with Kojack your laptop / video card may not be powerful enough.

    CPU usage, Video Card, and hard drive all have an effect on playback performance.

    Also - Sometimes windows becomes so bloated files and programs just don't run well. - a fresh install of windows may help.

    You can compensate for things to some extent, by upgrading the memory, and if not already installed a SSD drive. but it comes down to how much money do you want to spend to see if you can make it work.
     
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    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    Funny though. I have an acer 7720 with similar specs to your dell and it plays back hd video fine. It might need a clean install and freshening up.
     
    kojack, Oct 15, 2018
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    joegeek Notebook Geek

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    I know right! My father has a little notebook similar to yours and his playback is fine

    Did a clean install, WIN 7 Ultimate 1 week ago. Made sure that nothing is sucking up CPU

    Was thinking of going into BIOS to try and assign more RAM to the chip but I am stopped by the Pheonix password.
     
    joegeek, Oct 15, 2018
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    Updated the Bios
    DL'd intel graphics media accelerator driver for mobile

    Fixed my issue. Not sure what fixed it but my money is on that Intel accelerator
     
    joegeek, Oct 15, 2018
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    Yes. Thats what did it for sure! Never came to my mind...
     
    kojack, Oct 16, 2018
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