When using WinDVD creator, usually I get choppy audio, and severe echoes.
It comes and goes while editing.
The DVDs are fine, and so is WinDVD PLAYER.
It makes it tough to determine where I want to cut, since there are multiple
echoes.
I'm using a Presario with AMD XP 3000+ 2.10GHz, 512 RAM, and XP Home SP1.
Audio is on the main board, and video is from ATI 9200 SE 128MB AGP.
Choppy audio is to be expected, is just a matter of whether
the system has enough processing power (fast enough busses,
etc, etc) to encode or decode in realtime which also depends
on the video size, compression, what "editing" is being done
to it, and other misc factors. It is not a sign of a
problem but rather, inherant in video editing.
So some particular performance level is necessary to get
your particular tasks running fast enough that audio doesn't
stutter. There are too many variables involved to simply
suggest "buy a faster system", as it is quite possible you
could buy a brand new top of the line system and still it
wouldn't be fast enough, but closer to fast enough... or it
might be enough, again subject to too many variables.
There may be other settings in the software you can tweak to
improve performance, but I don't use WinDVD creator so I
can't be of any help there. If your incoming or outgoing
streams are compressed, it can also help to pre-decompress
them, do all your editing work uncompressed then after the
editing passes, the last pass is ONLY to compress into the
end format (codec(s)). Unless you have at least 2
relatively fast hard drives they might be a bottleneck to
this, or a lower (lossless) codec might be used in the
editing stages before the final MPEG2 conversion (for DVD?).
I would wonder if the echos are a sign you have both the
source and destination audio streams playing. Thus the
source plays audibly, and milliseconds (or even longer)
later the destination plays. IF that is what's happening
then there should be a setting to disable one or the other
from being audible. "Should" be a setting means it is a
useful and important setting to avoid what you are
encountering, but whether they were in a rush to make the
software and didn't bother with this bug, I cannot say.
If WinDVD creator allows setting the memory utilization you
might try increasing it, and buffers. Ideally a system
running WinXP doing video editing would have more than 512MB
memory if/when the software allows setting up larger
buffers/caches, or for some people running a lot in the
background, even if it doesn't allow that.
