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i have a great LCD screen over a gig processor and 640 physical memory.
i can watch 720 videos but they are really choppy.
do i need a better video card? memory? processor? i dont really understand what i can do to get the best video quality i can out of my system.

2007-03-01 08:14:26 · 2 answers · asked by Aaron 1 in Computers & Internet Other - Computers

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Sliver -

As you've begun to guess, there are lots and lots of factors that can effect playback quality.

Screen - historically, even great looking LCD screens just couldn't keep up to the refresh rate of a CTR (tube) monitor. Many gamers sitll refuse to use LCDs because they swear (especially after long gaming sessions in the dark) that they can see the flicker and smearing as the monitor attempts to keep up. Do you play games at all? Do they look fine?

DVD player - the player itself might be having trouble keeping up. You'd hope that wouldn't be the case, since that's the main reason you get a DVD player in a computer, eh?

Processor - 1 gig is probably pretty good, though not great.

640 memory - I assume you mean 640MB, right?

Also, what else is running on your computer? Over time, lots of little programs start gumming up your system installing stuff that runs at startup that you don't need.

I really like a set of free programs from Mike Lin ( http://www.mlin.net/ ). One is a program that starts up when your computer starts up and it monitors and alerts you if any program tries to add a program to your startup. The second is a great control panel that lets you quickly see just what all is starting up when your computer starts up and lets you turn things on or off by checking or unchecking boxes.

Video Card - surely also a consideration, but again, if you bought a computer that had a DVD player on it, you could probably assume that it would come with a video card sufficient for watching videos.

My guesses as to your culprits would be things in memory that don't need to be slowing down your system and maybe your monitor.

Hopefully this was somewhat helpful, I know how infuriating trying to solve some performance issue on a computer can be with so many variables.

James

2007-03-02 16:53:06 · answer #1 · answered by tvjames 3 · 1 0

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