Quick Time stuttering

[Simon Lord]

Make sure you don't have services such as MSN running in the 
background.  Quicktime will stutter uncontrollably with MSN 
running.

Haven't had any other problems with other apps yet.


On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 01:29 PM, Mark Lacy wrote:

> List Members,
>
> I am trying to deal with some problems of poor Quick Time 
> performance in my stack (MetaCard 2.4.1). I am struggling with 
> this for a client's project.
>
> They have Dells with 256 MB of Ram on a WIN 2000 system and 
> after playing 4-6 video clips  the video starts become VERY 
> choppy though the audio track keeps playing fine. The video 
> clips are playing in a single Player Object on one card in my 
> stack. Each time the user hits the "next" button on my card the 
> player assigns a new file to the filename property of the 
> Player and changes some text.
>
> Below are some of the things I found in the archive and have 
> had my client try but they haven't made much difference:
>
> a) downloading the latest video drivers for their systems
>
> b) disabling video acceleration
>
> c) setting QuickTime to run in "safe mode" only
>
> d) disabling virus protection software
>
> Any suggestions to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mark
>
>
> Mark Lacy
> LetterPress Software, Inc.
> 1770 North Research Park Way
> Suite 160
> North Logan, Utah 84341
> (435) 755-5996
>
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