Frame dropping due to IFC? (1 Viewer)

avee

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    Hi, I seem to be getting regular frame drops when IFC is active. The first 5-10 minutes will be ok, but then I get numerous stutters. This happens both on stored videos and DVDs. I have checked my screen refresh rates, driver interrupts, codecs, you name it, but the only thing I can pin it on is IFC. IFC on: problem appears, IFC off: no problems.

    I am using the latest official releases of MP and IFC. MP runs on win XP SP3.

    Is there anything in the IFC configuration I should be looking at?
     

    avee

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    Tried disabling just the black bar scan, but it doesn't work. The only thing that helps is to disable the GUI plugin of IFC.
     

    Marvman

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    I can't confirm that (tested with Nvidia, AMD and Intel gfx cards) and thats an unresolved problem that some people have.

    But you said when you disable the window plugin IFC GUI, thats make no sense, cause the GUI is just the window configuration within MP.

    The stuttering should stop when you do the following:

    Set auto start to disabled, then IFC is disabled until you press F4 (default Key) and choose snapshot.
     

    Johnny M.

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    thanks for the advice. I also had a lot of stuttering/dropped frames on my SDTV (liveTV/Recordings), when I set it to use PDVD (SAF) with DXVA.
    I searched everything, changing codecs, putting extra memory in, changing the GPU settings, etc.
    As I had no problems with my Videos I never suspected IFC to be the problem. Finally when disabling auto start in IFC my problems where solved.

    jan
     

    Johnny M.

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    I believe my Graphics card was initially set to 128mb, and I changed it to 256mb.
    Maybe the reason why my videos never experienced any stuttering is that I only use divx. So in my case TV recordings are lager files to process then videos.

    jan
     

    Marvman

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    I tested with 128 and even with 256 and it should work though, nevermind, good that your setup is working fine now.
     

    Jay_UK

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    Hi there,

    I'm afraid to say I have the same issue...

    Running an Nvidia ION2 (I believe it has 512MB of video RAM??)

    Every 3.5 seconds (or whatever I set the interval to) I get dropped frames while it analyses the frame(s).

    By disabling the black bar scanner it solves the issue.

    I believe you produced a version that required less resources to do the check?

    Thanks,

    J.
     

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