Posted by Bill on 01/05/07 13:48

We thought of that and killed off all the other applications, after a
clean reboot, to see if it had any effect. We were also looking for any
apps that accessed the disk. Didn't have any effect. Also, I thought
that probably it wasn't that kind of issue because the video ran
smoothly and consistently slow-- didn't seem to be choking.

FCP User wrote:
> In article <ns-dnd70FJGJ8ADYnZ2dnUVZ_segnZ2d@golden.net>,
> Bill <trash@chromehorse.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Just in case anyone has a similar problem in the future and finds this
>>thread-- I ran an uncompressed avi file on the laptop. The uncompressed
>>avi file demonstrated the same issue. But after rebooting, the problem
>>disappeared for all video files on the laptop.
>>
>>I have no idea why.
>
>
> Is it possible that your video player software (whatever it was) had
> launched into a small memory partition behind a bunch of other memory
> hogging apps?
>
> And it wasn't getting enough processor time to parse the video stream.
>
> I'd suspect memory allocation, since after the reboot, it worked just
> fine.
>
> But I'm totally guessing here.
>

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