Flicker in Media Player 9

[hawkster27]

When I run videos in WMP9 with "full" acceleration, the image flickers like some kind of old-time movie from the 20s. If I reduce the acceleration to "medium", the vids play fine. But of course, I want full acceleration.

It can't be an underpowered system: I've got a 3 GHz Pentium 4, a gig of RAM, and a GeForce4 Ti 4600. I also have a Soundblaster Audigy2, and the software that was installed with that.

 

[bcastner]

Make sure you update your DirectX to 9.0a.

But in any case, and limitations you are experiencing are due to the slowness of the transfer of bits from your storage device, not the video board.

Moving the hardware acceleration slider is appropriate to solve your flickering problems. That is why it is there. By moving the slider you are better matching the bitstream from your hard disk or DVD-Rom to the processing speed of your graphics chip. Think of it like the tracking knob on a VCR player.

 

[DorqueRouge]

Try this:

http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#CREATIVE

It solved a crackling audio during video playback problem for me, and also cleaned up a stuttering/flickering problem with some of my videos. It has to do with IRQ sharing in Windows 2000/XP and the PCI latency setup in BIOS. This involves systems using a VIA mobo chipset/Creative Labs soundcard/nVidia graphics card in combination.