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[gan1503]

Hi All !
Anybody know anything about computers? My laptop has strange behaviour when I try to play music & dvd's through it !
When I play a cd or music from on the hard drive it slows down then goes back to normal. Does the same thing on every track,same with dvd's they play ok then slow down.
I thought the problem may be windows media so downloaded realplayer but it still does it :-?
Have transferred music files via bluetooth & burned music cd's both of which play normally.
Cheer's in advance>

[Laz]

More info needed gan1503

What sort of laptop.
What operating system (XP or Vista)
When you say slow down do you mean the music stutters or actually sl...o...w..s d...o...w....n  (Which would be well weird)

Could take a bit of sorting this as you have a mix bag of media giving unexpected results

1)Music via Hard Drive does not work.
2)DVD played from DVD drive does not work.
3)CD played from DVD drive does work.
4)Music via BT does work.

At the moment the list of things it could be is large. Need to narrow it down.

Are you using a single programme to play all of the above (Media Player or the god awful realplayer for example)
Are the DVD's slowing down at constant intervals (like at the start of every chapter)

If it were me I would download and instal the free codec pack from here -
http://www.cccp-project.net/

This has the excellent Media Player Classic that just does what it is supposed to without any fancy graphics and visualisations that sometimes hog the cpu of low end systems.

This would also rule out Codecs as an issue.

[gan1503]

Hi Laz
The laptop is a Hi-Grade running on vista basic with an intel celeron m cpu 1.73ghz.
When music plays it starts off normal then slows down like playing a 45 record at 33 then goes back to normal.
Dvds slow down at various times not just start of chapters.

[Plomien]

could be a codec issue,
i use k-lite and have no issues.

[Laz]

Hi Laz
The laptop is a Hi-Grade running on vista basic with an intel celeron m cpu 1.73ghz.
When music plays it starts off normal then slows down like playing a 45 record at 33 then goes back to normal.
Dvds slow down at various times not just start of chapters.

Not heard of that one before, however I would try different codec.

either the k-lite pack (google k-lite) as suggested by Plomien or the Combined ones in the link above, they are much of a muchness and both have MPC (Media Player Classic) Then try playing music on MPC.

[TheBoy]

My initial reaction is a duff codec - often happens after installing those stupid gay 'codec packs' which are, without exception, crap.

The media interface in Windows is still based around the VFW interface introduced in Windows 3.1, and the codec chains rely on all codecs in the chain working 100%.

Not an easy fix, uninstalling a corrupted one won't help I'm afraid.

Could try uninstalling all codecs in the vain hope it will help, but I suspect rebuild time

[Laz]

My initial reaction is a duff codec - often happens after installing those stupid gay 'codec packs' which are, without exception, crap.

The media interface in Windows is still based around the VFW interface introduced in Windows 3.1, and the codec chains rely on all codecs in the chain working 100%.

Not an easy fix, uninstalling a corrupted one won't help I'm afraid.

Could try uninstalling all codecs in the vain hope it will help, but I suspect rebuild time

Awesome smack down. For 99% of people the codec packs quoted above are an easy, free, heavily supported by the community way of getting video and audio files work.
 And if the lad has to re-install windows to fix surely its worth 2 minutes of his time to install and try.
 
 Anyway, spoke to the IT support lads at work none has heard of audio files slowing down in this way.

 I don't suppose at the start of every track you run away from your speakers at 200 mph?
  

[TheBoy]

My initial reaction is a duff codec - often happens after installing those stupid gay 'codec packs' which are, without exception, crap.

The media interface in Windows is still based around the VFW interface introduced in Windows 3.1, and the codec chains rely on all codecs in the chain working 100%.

Not an easy fix, uninstalling a corrupted one won't help I'm afraid.

Could try uninstalling all codecs in the vain hope it will help, but I suspect rebuild time

Awesome smack down. For 99% of people the codec packs quoted above are an easy, free, heavily supported by the community way of getting video and audio files work.
 And if the lad has to re-install windows to fix surely its worth 2 minutes of his time to install and try.
 
 Anyway, spoke to the IT support lads at work none has heard of audio files slowing down in this way.

 I don't suppose at the start of every track you run away from your speakers at 200 mph?
  

Nah, codec packs introduce massive instability in the codec chain - minimal codecs works best.

For example, I run a Media Center PC under telly, it has to play a whole host of media types.  Generally, ffdshow codec alone (on top of the mpg2 and wma/v included in vista) is enough.

The whole VFW interface is so old and rubbish, any unexpected behaviour in any installed (or potentially installed as far as system concerned) will bugger up the whole lot.

[gan1503]

Hi
Well I tried what's been suggested & still the same so am at a loss lol !!
On the plus side tho music files I send to my phone by bluetooth work fine so I can live with it for now.
Just means when there's fluff all on the telly I'll have to sit with my mobile playing mp3's