I have a problem that has been driving me mad for several months now. Trying to watch Video podcasts in iTunes has become a very hit and miss affair. At seemingly random intervals the video and audio get very choppy, out of sync and sometimes even stall completely for a few seconds. Not always though. Sometimes I can watch 2-3 podcasts with no trouble. Other times it gets choppy in every video I try and watch.
I initially thought that it must be just HD video but lower res video is doing the same. Setup is: Macbook 2Ghz with 2GB RAM - All software fully up to date. iTunes library stored on internal disk. Things I have tried so far: - Closing all other apps - Creating a new user with no startup items and watching the video in iTunes - Repairing disk permissions - Running fsck in Single user mode - Uninstalling Perian (in case some of the codecs had screwed up something in Quicktime) - Disconnecting all external USB devices Things noted so far: - The problem occurs whether in full screen or windowed - The processor % for iTunes never hits 100% when this issue occurs - normally it's well below 100% - There is always plenty of free RAM available - There is always approx 15% free disk space available on the boot drive I am at a total loss as to what could be causing this. Lots of googling show many people with this issue using iTunes 7 but not many using 8. Could this be down to drive fragmentation? Anyone ever seen this? Or better yet fixed it? many thanks -- Paul Howard web: http://phoward.com | twitter: http://twitter.com/phowardcom tel (UK): +44 (0)1293 738158 | mobile (UK): +44 (0)7903 505153 | tel (US) : +1 251 243 0058 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
