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| Cumwhipper Senior Member  4050 Posts 3/04 |  Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 9:52AMHere's where some of our resident tech gurus can probably help. I have Windows XP, with a Pentium 4 3.00GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. My DVD drive is a TDK DVDRW0404N (Read/Write) - a pretty old 4x speed drive, but it gets the job done. I've been using a Roxio DVDMAX Player v4.0 for watching DVDs, because it has a great frame-by-frame feature that allows you to freeze frame and step-by-step using a single keyboard key. Unfortunately, the Roxio player has a bug that has degraded performance on later chapters on a disk. The images start to get choppy/shaky, as if the player is very rapidly stopping and starting again every second or two. I've tried using other media players (like Windows Media Player), and the choppy/shaky playback doesn't happen, so I'm pretty sure it's the Roxio player that has a bug causing the effect. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to solve this? Maybe I just need to upgrade the Roxio player? (I've googled for this bug on Roxio players and couldn't find anything). Even better, does anyone have any recommendations for alternative players that have similar frame-by-frame playback features using single keyboard shortcuts? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 11:04AM [Link] |
| Cumwhipper Senior Member 4050 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 11:22AM [Link] |
| Robert Member My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage. 503 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 11:47AM CD Freaks.com Based in Holland, it has nearly 400,000 subscribers world-wide and a number of very expert forum moderators. [Link] |
| Jeeves Member We are all winners...except the losers. 22 Posts 5/06 | Posted - Mar 15 2008 : 7:19PM Maneuvering back and forth through a video clip is easy. There is no need to use a mouse to move any sliders. GOM has loads of keyboard shortcuts. To do frame-by-frame, just press the F key. Edited by - Jeeves on 3/15/2008 7:30:03 PM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Mar 15 2008 : 9:17PM I use PowerDVD, and, yes, it has frame-by-frame and screencap capabilities. [Link] |
| Cumwhipper Senior Member 4050 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Mar 15 2008 : 10:56PM Thanks for all the tips/advice! [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Mar 16 2008 : 8:25AM RAM is relatively cheap. You can do it in steps. You have at least two RAM slots, possibly only two. We don't know if your 512 MB is a single module, or two 256 MB modules (many manufacturer's used the two smaller memory modules to get 512 MB). In any event, add memory 1 GB at a time. If you're lucky, you already have your 512 MB on a single module: (+ 1 GB = 1.5 GB) If you have two 256 MB modules, and have to remove one first to make a slot available, you still do alright: (512 MB - 256 MB + 1 GB = 1.25 GB) Adding 1 GB may be all you ever need! I'm also guessing that your machine is using shared memory for your video memory. I wouldn't be surprised if it is currently only setting aside 64 MB for your video. You can quickly determine this by going to "Start >> Control Panel >> System" and seeing how much memory it says you have. If it says 448 MB, then you know your current configuration is currently only setting aside 64 MB for your video. After increasing your memory, you can (more than likely) increase the memory set aside for your video to 128 MB. This is done in your set-up screen (Bios, etc.) that you can access when booting-up before Windows starts up. We'll cross this when you get to this point. [Link] |
| Cornell Lingus Senior Member Carryin', contrarian, libertarian 2982 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 16 2008 : 4:56PM [Link] |
| PL Senior Member God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Mar 16 2008 : 8:28PM But if that's past I agree with BigBob, 2 GB and the player I use is WinDVD 7. Older yes but I like it more than the newer ones. It does do frame by frame, it's how I do my screen caps  .World Class Adult Reviews [Link] |
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