It seems that Nomad's last post on this topic was a little 'previous'. Installing an ethernet over mains link made a significant improvement. However on some of the high resolution videos, sound continues to drop out. Interestingly, for a particular video, the point at which it drops out is repeatable. This is obviously a hardware performance issue, not a software compatability one.
Surely video format conversion is the sort of processor intensive task where hyperthreading would improve performance? So Nomad thought. He had a suspicion that his PC did not have hyperthreading turned on. So he rooted around in the BIOS, selected hyperthreading on and rebooted the machine 27 times as you do. Did this make any difference? Errrr ... no. But surely it must have made some difference? Ummm....no. No difference whatsoever. Nada. The sound dropped out at exactly the same point as before (to the second).
Possible lines of attack from here:
- Hyperthreading is all a con, just turn it off
- Hyperthreading will work better with Windows 7, give yet more money to Mr Gates
- Processor loading is not really the problem, try a faster disk drive.
At the moment that last option looks like the best one. A fresh round of funding for the project is under review.
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