Playback stutter

[Claire Drew]

So over the last couple of months I have started to get a stutter when playing back films.

I use VLC to play all my film media and this happens across multiple format and files from different drives (Sig pc).

This happens at least once in a 45min video and some times twice, the stutter lasts about a second or 2.

I have a oldish card but cooler is nice and clean and have decent air flow through the case.

I put the card back to stock but still happens so moved it back to overclocked settings.

Just for info the card has no issues with games at all WOT plays fine for 2 hours and no stutter.

Please could you give me some idea of the fault I may be getting?

Thanks

 

[ExRayTed]

Any programs running in the background that may be affecting playback?

 

[Claire Drew]

No, PC is used mainly as a media center, used for odd game as above and browsing.

Only apps running are anti Virus and team viewer but has been like that since day one

 

[Midlife Crisis]

I had a similar thing happen with VLC, it turned out the hard drive I was playing the files off was on it way out.

 

[Claire Drew]

Checked the drive by doing a long test

Read/Error Check = Pass
Surface Test = Pass

Could it still be the drive?

 

[Midlife Crisis]

Have you a spare drive? plug it in and play a file off it ,see what happens. have you played a file off your SSD?

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Sounds like either the drive is having a few hickups ( HD sentinel is decent for checking the life of the drive via S.M.A.R.T stats )

If this comes up with nothing then i would say try using a different media player for the same content and see if it remains.

 

[Claire Drew]

I will run some more tests based on your advice tonight and see what results I get.

Thanks Chaps

 

[Midlife Crisis]

Problems like this are a real pain in the XXX

 

[yashiro]

Use something other than VLC to test.

 

[joedeath332]

Use something other than VLC to test.

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