Skipping with SZ (AU) Laptops

Seems that the WMP 11 problems on the Dell is also on the Australian SZ laptops, every file skips (stutters, is garbled) at least once, for 3 to 5 seconds at at a time. The CPU spikes to 60% at these times, VERY Irritating.

I've also looked at the sony australia website, they are a joke! no driver support for vaios, went to the US driver website, says only for us/can SZ laptops.

what can i do!?!?!

I believe the sound card in my SZ43GN/B is a "DSD compatible high quality sound chip: "Sound Reality"(Intel® High Definition Audio compatible)"

Anyone got any ideas? I like WMP, but i suppose i can move on since the problem is highly irratating.

 

I've got an AU SZ38GP and my WMP11 doesn't do that actually. But I have to say the 38 uses a T7200 processor and is still on XP.

Have you tried a WMP11 re-install or a recovery?

Cheers

 

my SZ-28GP is fine with WM11
I'm on XP with the T2500 processor and 2GB ram

This is abit off topic, but can you tell me how many built in firewalls is there on the SZ-38?

As far as i can tell, there is the Norton trial and the windows one.
Is there any other firewall. ie for wireless and stuff?

 

ok, i forgot to mention i'm also on vista, so i suppose the problem is a vista driver problem. -(same with the dells, vista, wmp11, skipping).

 

I have a Sony FE, No skipping here on WMP11

 

I have an SZ120P/B running Windows Vista Business (T2400 and 2GB Ram) and I have not had a problem with any media files yet. During playback CPU usage spiked to a high of 53%, but was typically around 35-40%. MP3's work fine, with both WMP11 and iTunes. The only thing I haven't done yet is playback a DVD because I am too cheap to buy PowerDVD or WinDVD... Anyone know of any Vista compatible DVD Decoders that work good, without installing Malware?


Don

 

I think that's it, however, I uninstalled Norton almost straight away.

Quite possibly a Vista issue. I don't think I have heard of this for the SZs and XP

 

Hi, i know i'm digging up my old thread, please forgive me, however, i have found a fix for the skipping problem for future reference.

To fix it do the following in Windows Vista

Goto Control Panel
Select Hardware and Sound
Select Sound
Double Click Speakers/Headphones
Select the effects tab
Place a check mark in the "disable system effects"
Click apply

and close down all windows and try it in windows media player 11.

 

Don't have to apologise to dick up old thread, it's good to find a solution so others can use as well

 

thanks for the fix. this worked for me.