I have slow video & sound (running about 1/3 speed) on playback, and also when I record video onto my PC. I tried Sherlock.exe and it tells me all my codecs and drivers are fine. Does anyone have any insight into this? Funny thing is, if I capture a vid onto my PC and have it save in MPEG it plays fine. BUT, if I capture it in avi form it drags? I've done sfc /scannow and also none of my drivers seem to be conflicting in device manager. My HD was reformatted and re-loaded about 2 months ago. Thanks I also have a laptop and another spare PC and the playback is fine on them. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

This may help. VideoInspector http://www.free-codecs.com/download/VideoInspector.htm http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4249.html VideoInspector is a tools designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files. With VideoInspector you'll know why your video files has no sound or refuses to play correctly. VideoInspector will help you installing the required Codecs (coder/decoder software) for an optimal performance. VideoInspector can also inspect your system to find which codecs are available, and it can also process multiple video files and export its result in HTML or plain text files (Donationware).

Hi Johnw, thanks for the suggestion, I tried Video Inspector and it doesn't seem to work with wmv files, so I couldn't check the ones that are slow. Some MPG's work and others drag...weird! Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

This is most likely not the problem, but I thought I would throw it out there anyway, as I had the same problem. Your hard drive may be stuck in PIO mode. You want it in DMA mode or UDMA mode. This should fix it. Check if your computer is compatable and download the following: Intel Application Accelerator: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=663 RAID version: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=2101 jablonskia@gmail.com

Hi Andrewj357, Thanks for the great ideas. The intel thing looks like what I need, but my MOB is not intel? My video is nVidia. Sorry, I'm a bit stumped on this. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

What I'm confused on is....the files all play fine on my other 2 pc's. Would it be a windows component that's causing the problem? I really need this PC to work, as that's where I edit all my vids on. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

Andrewj357 idea about PIO mode is a good one. The Windoze XP IDE Transfer Mode Failback “Feature” & Fix http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduck/itserviceduck/udma_fix/ UDMA à PIO | DUCK’S BLOG ======================================= Problems enabling DMA on IDE drives http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/windowsxp/articles/249/1/Problems-enabling-DMA-on-IDE-drives ====================================== IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472 ==================================== DMA Mode for ATA/ATAPI Devices in Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx Enabling DMA in XP http://www.blackmaxpc.com/Guides/DMA.htm http://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...9/2002/05/1/885 http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.asp http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7625 http://www.optorite.com/manual/English/manual/dma.htm Problems enabling DMA in XP http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6645 http://www.compguysinc.com/techweb/hardware/dma66.shtml