I just thought I would post a summary of the issues (and the solution) I have been having recently. My apologies if this has been covered in any other threads on this forum.
Firstly, the symptoms. AAC (ripped with iTunes) stuttering badly during playback, MP3s were fine. Previously all had been fine. After a bit of research here and elsewhere I tried mplayer instead of mov123, I may have cocked this up somewhat as I had no joy. After a lot more buggering about I discovered that the Quicktime player, which slimserver uses for transcoding, gave the same stuttering results on the PC. A re-install of Quicktime improved nothing, nor did the latest 5 November 7.3 version. Much googling later I discovered references to problems with Quicktime playing video files on SATA drives connected to Nvidia Nforce4 chipsets. Recently I had moved my music library from a PATA drive to a new SATA connected on a Nforce chipset. My motherboard has 4 NVidia SATA connects and 4 Silicon Image SATA channels. I copied a few m4a's to a drive on the Silicon Image controller and tried it via QT, it played fine. I tried via SS+SB, it played fine. I tried some more, fine. Happy days. I tried installing the latest Nvidia drivers but they didn't help. In short, QT on Nforce4 looks like its broken. The work around for me is to store your aac/m4a on a non-Nvidia connected drive. I hope this helps someone else. -- ChrisSLH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChrisSLH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40001 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
