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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1298965" data-attributes="member: 141969">I have looked at your log files, but as usual they are pretty unintelligible <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />. However...For some reason I am under the impression that you are in Australia, where the electric mains frequency is 50Hz. As a result, your graphics adapter should be set to a refresh rate of 50Hz (or a multiple or submultiple thereof), and not 60Hz (or a multiple or submultiple thereof).The log files "evr.log" and "evr.bak" show that your display seems to be running at 30Hz (search for the string Hz). Although Windows Media Player plays the files without stutter, it is possible that Media Player knows that the frame rate of the file is 25 frames/sec progressive, or 50 fields/sec interlaced, and so changes the refresh rate of the display to play the file, and then re-instates the original refresh rate at the end of play. Getting truly smooth playback is really difficult. In the UK both 25 frames/sec progressive, and 50 fields/sec interlaced are used, and I have even seen (on my Sony TV) the type of scan changing within a single advertisement (when the advertisement uses video from different sources). You might think that selecting progressive scan (25p) in your graphics adapter is the better choice, but I have found that interlaced scan (50i) gives slightly better results, but jerky horizontal scolling of tickertape newsfeeds, and jerky vertical scrolling of programme credits, is still evident. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />Finally, I get the impression from your post that you sleep your system with MP still open. I never do that, as it is infamous for not working properly. I exit MP before hibernating my system, and then restart MP from the desktop using the START button on the remote control.Finally finally, the above may all be a complete load of... balderdash. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

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