Playback problems, skips & freezes

Only recently, a few songs on my playlist wouldn't play. I have to skip to the next song in order for ipod to play. It has also been slow, unresponsive and occassionally freezes when I press the key to skip to next song. I connected it to my computer via the FW port and for the 1st time I've noticed it immediately start checking the ipods hard disk. The diagnostic checked out okay. And the software update is also current at version 2.3. Does anyone have an idea what's happening and how I can fix the playback problem?

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Frustrating - freezing film playback problems

Ok, first of all I should say that I was one of the many I saw on these forums who was having big problems with the 10.6.8 OS with my Mac, the too numerous to count problems of freezing/crashing/hanging being one of the reasons I recently downgraded to 10.5.8 (archive and Install). So far, it seems to have been running a lot better, but I will be working back up to the 10.6 (maybe not 10.6.8 though) maybe starting today. I may return to the forums to add my voice to the 10.6 problems very soon i predict...
However, one problem (which was also there with 10.6.8 and became another reason to downgrade) is that all my downloaded films/series were suffering from incredibly frustrating freezing problems (most of them are avi. files) - I can't complete a full episode or film of anything. The film will reach a point, and freeze - for many minutes or so long, sometimes I have waited 20+ mins, that I simply exit the application. Initially, I thought this was maybe a VLC problem, but this also happens with films I burned to DVD many months ago (and which I have enjoyed countless times without any problems with playback before). The film will reach a certain point (often the same point) and freeze and not continue. Skipping forwards/backwards does nothing as does moving the slider around. The same happens in Quicktime (maybe even worse). Sometimes the critical freeze is preceded by moments of stuttering playback, but these more often than not go back to normal after a few seconds, a minute or so (still annoying though). The only option I have left is to exit the player. Same thing all the time. I had never experienced this problem before on the Mac (well, before 10.6.8 that is) and now all of a sudden both my burned DVDs and my downloaded film/series are suffering these problems, I'm close to tearing my hair out.
It can't be corrupt files because, as I said, burned DVDs that were working fine and I played without problems so many times before, are suffering this problem too, although they tend not to freeze and never recover, they do freeze for many seconds and sometimes a couple of minutes. When I thought it was a VLC problem, I went through all the options there (deleting the preference files, resetting the cache, getting the latest version, uninstalling and redownloading) and no joy. I have reset the PRAM (two chimes on startup is it?) ran verify disk, repair disk, verify permissions, repair permissions - I downloaded Onyx and did all this again and again till I was going insane. When I thought it was maybe a lack of disk space, I bought an external hard drive and now have 77GB free on my Macintosh HD and still this happens. I had thought that archiving and installing 10.5 would mean that this problem, like the many other problems I was having with 10.6.8, would correct themselves, but this is now a major frustration for me. When I can't enjoy films I have downloaded or films burned to DVD, when I have so many many times in the past, it makes me mad. This is a basic feature of any computer - Mac or PC surely?
What on earth is going on, can anyone help me please? I feel like I'm going mad here.
2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Capacity on Macintosh HD: 232.57 GB
Available on Macintosh HD: 77.61 GB
I am no tech-head as well, so please help!

HI MGD:
Welcome to discussions!
What type of media did you use? Verbatim DVD-R 4x or less seems to work very well.
Len Goff (iDVD Guru)often suggests this:
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Sue

Burned DVD movies skip/freeze on regular DVD player

I've made a few home movies, and burned them on to DVDs. When I play them on a regular DVD player (Sony), the movie skips/freezes from time to time. I've burned the same movie on my other MacBook, and this does not happen.
Could it be that the SuperDrive on this MacBook is broken?

Hi,
I would take a look at the following:
1. Try a different brand blank DVD medium when you burn the disc. Set top players seem to be a lot more sensitive to the brand of disc than computers.
2. Burn the iDVD project to an image file. Share the image file over to another Mac and burn it there. See if you still have problems with playback.
3. If you still had problems with an image file burned on a different computer, then you know it must be something in the data format of the disc. I've experienced problems with some set top DVD playback machines that can not handle sustained high bit rate content. As far as I know, iDVD uses a relatively simple encoding strategy, and does not do much to reduce the information content of the encoded video stream. If you start with a high resolution QuickTime or DVI import, playback machines with limited disc performance might not be able to keep up.
I did some fairly superficial Google searches and looked at iDVD, and I didn't see any means of setting up the bit rate and encoding strategies that iDVD will use. Perhaps, somebody with a little more experience can comment?... A professional DVD encoding software suite will do a multi-pass encoding - once to figure out optimization and then again to render output. That sort of analysis might require an over-night run to make the disc. I have a feeling Apple avoided that in order to make iDVD more consumer friendly. It also avoids stealing market from more professional products like Final Cut.
You might be able to go into iMovie HD to edit the clips. You could send them to QuickTime, and reduce the bit rate there, then import the QuickTime clips into iDVD.
--Bill

IOS Music Player MP3 Gapless Playback Problem

Hi,
I've been having this gapless playback issue on iOS now for the past few years, since at least iOS 6 if I can remember correctly. The number one reason I use an iPhone and iOS devices is for gapless playback in the iOS music player. For the last few years I've been experiencing a bug with the stock iOS music player on my iPhone 4S using iOS 6 and on my iPhone 5 using iOS 6 & 7, and currently on my new iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.2. This only happens on my iPhones and using iOS, this bug is not found when I use my iPod classic or when playing the same albums through iTunes.
I thought it might have been spotted by other iOS users and fixed in iOS 7.1 or at least the current version of iOS 8, but instead it's gotten worse, albums that used to play smoothly between transitions now suddenly pause and jump for a split second when changing from track to track.
What's happening is, I listen to a lot of albums that are continuously DJ mixed and play straight through without any pauses between tracks, and I've been experiencing problems a lot now with random split second pauses between tracks and choppy transitions. These albums in question have been ripped from cd using the latest versions of iTunes.
For example,
I'd be listening to an album and it would play gapless and smooth for most of the album, but maybe one or two transitions on the album would have a split second pause between them, and the rest of the album would play perfectly with no pauses, skips or jumps at all.
This only happens on my iPhone, as I have a 160gb iPod classic and I've listened to all the same albums on it and never has a problem playing the album without any pauses, every album plays 100% smooth and gapless on it.
I mailed Apple about it through their feedback page on their site... https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Hoping that they would take note of this and try and look into it and fix the issue. That was probably about a year ago now, never got fixed or got any confirmation back from them about this problem. Then last August, I'd had enough and contacted Apple support to notify them about this issue. They told me the usual story, "have you tried restoring the phone?", which I obliged and did. The problem was there on a freshly restored iPhone 5.
So they told me that they would put me in touch with someone higher in Apple to take the case further, "great" I thought.
I spoke with a senior care advisor and explained the problem and agreed to send detailed explanations of the issue and test files too so that they could hopefully hear what I was talking about. But after a few weeks of going back and forward, I finally got them to hear the issue with the random pauses, the first week they denied there was a problem and said the files played ok on their test iOS devices, so I myself tried the files on another iOS device and the same problem was there.
The last correspondence I had with the Apple care advisor was back in the end of August / start of September, and she told me that they spotted the issue and was told by the tech's that it would be fixed in a future update, I never got a when this would happen, I was just told to make sure my iOS device was up to date with the latest version of iOS. I couldn't speak to an actual technician, got no follow up support, just a vague "We'll look into it." Case Closed.
I got so sick of this problem that I sold my iPhone and iPad just after this last phone call with the Apple people, and switched over to Android. I'd being reading up on gapless playback music players and found out that there's a good few available for Android devices. I got myself a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, twice as powerful as the iPhone 6 and half the price. I was using that for the last few months, and playing my music through Neutron Music Player app which is a great music player which plays gapless 100%
But I couldn't really take to Android OS, seeing as I've been using Apple products for around 10 years now and iOS since the iPhone 3G. So I decided to contact Apple again and see if they'd fixed the music player issue in iOS yet.
I wrote a long email explaining the problem, how it wasn't really looked at properly, and how I was a long time Apple customer and had to resort to switching over to Android because the basic music player functions on iOS devices have bugs. I took a chance in mailing this to Tim Cook's offices, I knew he wouldn't reply personally, just thought that it might get read by someone in his offices with a bit more say in the matter.
Just before Xmas, I got a call from someone from executive relations from my local Apple offices about this. He seemed nice and was aware of the problem from reading back through my emails and previous case notes from August when I opened this case originally.
We had a talk and he said he would get one of the tech's to call me too about this so that I could explain the bugs to someone more knowledgeable about iOS.
A few days later I received a call from one of the tech's at Apple and was chatting to him, explaining the problem. His response was that he thinks Apple doesn't support gapless playback on current iOS devices. From looking at the gapless playback information page on the Apple support site below, it looks like it hasn't been updated to show any iPhone models after the iPhone 3GS... http://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT201644
I was trying to explain to him how ridiculous this sounded, why would Apple stop supporting basic functions on their music player on iOS devices? It makes no sense at all? You can see that the amount of hardware devices and software that supports gapless playback today... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback#Player_support
He couldn't explain either, he just said that because it's not listed there on the Apple support page.
Then the next day I got the follow up call from the Apple executive relations guy, he was stating that he was speaking to the tech guy that called me and it looks like Apple doesn't support gapless playback anymore, from looking at the documentation on site.
I told him how stupid this was, and how lots of music players have gapless playback as standard today. And if they don't support it now, then why does it play through some parts of the albums on iOS ok and then just randomly pause, or have jumpy / choppy transitions on the rest of the album. If it was the case, no albums would play gaplessly at all, it would be like when the first ever iPod's were released back in the day with no gapless playback and would pause for a split second between every transition.
He couldn't give me an answer and said that maybe down the line they would start supporting it again, and that I should request the feature to be added to future iOS versions via the iPhone feedback page... https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
He just kept on emphasising that it was "NOT A BUG OR ISSUE", trying to cover up the problem because the info on the site wasn't updated to show the current iOS devices. Which in itself is wrong, looking at the page it says "Supported iPod and iPhone models (make sure you have the latest iPod or iPhone software)"
iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS only go up to iOS 6, so that contradicts itself when the latest version is iOS 8.
The info is out of date and needs to be updated. So in August I was told, "we found the issue and will look into it" and a few months later, "it's not an issue", what's a cop out.
I was annoyed and taken back by this response, and really found it hard to believe that this was the case, Apple stopping supporting their music player on iOS devices. Seeing as iTunes plays everything smoothly and no gapless issues. I just went out and bought an iPhone 6 for €900 / $1060, and for that money you'd expect it's basic music player to work. It's total BS to think that a top computer software / hardware company would just decide to abandon basic functions in their devices, especially when we are talking about how much Apple takes pride in their products and how much more they charge for them over their competitors.
So this is my next step to try and get this problem seen and out in the open more. The more people who know about it and are aware of the issue, the better.
Hopefully more people can get the word around and get this noticed by Apple and finally fixed.
I've uploaded some test files below to show the problem. The files are mp3's and aac, and have been ripped from cd using the latest version of iTunes. The mp3's are the ones with the issue, but the aac play with no problem. If you listen to the transition at the end of track 2 (2-02 Colours (JH Re-Edit)) going into the start of track 3 (2-03 Your Body), you will notice the split second pause / jump. But listen to the aac version and compare it to the mp3 version and you will hear that it plays back fine, just as it's supposed to. Try them in iTunes too and both versions playback fine, no jumps or pauses.
You can download them here, all links have the same files, I just uploaded them to different hosts for other people's choosing...
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=86512332626247919914
https://www.mediafire.com/?w5wvi50er96b14s
http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/37047710/file.html
https://www.sendspace.com/file/lubcmc
More files can be provided if needed to show the problem happening on various other albums.
I really hope that people can spot this issue too and help get this fixed, I know this gapless playback feature might not be important to some people, but like I said at the start, it's an essential function for me in a music player and I use it on a daily basis when I listen to music.
Thanks for reading this long rant of mine, appreciate it.
Ger

I believe this issue occurs only between songs that iTunes has converted to a lower bitrate for you during transfer to your iOS device and songs that it has not done this for. Take this Between the Buried and Me album, for instance. I have marked all of the transitions that should have been gapless but probably aren't in red. I know for sure that most of these marked transitions are indeed broken and that the most of the transitions not marked in red work flawlessly... I honestly can't remember whether or not some of these transitions were gapless or not, but the many transitions I do remember working or not working match up exactly with whether or not the songs on either side of the transition were also on other sides of the 256kbps threshold, the threshold at which I enabled iTunes to convert tracks to 256kbps AAC.
I'm going to try re-sync'ing my library with that "feature" disabled and see if it fixes my gapless playback problem. Will post the results once I test it out.

Playback problem - video playback stops; any suggestions?

I have distributed about 20 copies of a DVD I made using iMovie and iDVD v4.x - and about 5 of the discs are reported to freeze during playback. Because not all of the 20 discs have been viewed, it's possible the percentage of discs with playback problems may be even higher. No two discs are freezing at the same spot, or even in the same movie (there are 3 short movies on the disc).
I got no errors during burning, but I did not 'verify' each disc after burning, either. I did play back my 'master' disc on my home DVD player to make sure it was OK before using it to create a disk image - which I used to burn all the other discs.
Some of the discs I burned from the disk image using Toast Titanium 6.1.1, until I discovered Apple's Disk Utility was actually a little faster. No way to tell now if the 'bad' discs are all from the same burn software. Though both Toast and DU gave me an option to burn faster than the rated speed, I used the rated burn speed of 8x, and I did not do anything else on the Mac while burning the discs.
My first thought was bad media. I used both Memorex and Sony DVD-R media (Taiwan) - there is no easy way to for me to find out if all the 'bad' disks are one brand or the other - but hopefully these brands do not have a 20% rate of defective discs.
My second thought was format-player incompatibilities (-R vs +R), but replacement discs, using the same media on my end, solved the problem for most people (one person's replacement disc froze, but at a different spot than the first one).
My final guess - I wonder if the playback problems might have something to do with the stick on labels I used? These are a Memorex brand product called "CD&DVD" labels, but the fine print on the back says: "Warning: Using a Standard or Full-Face label on DVDs may result in the disc becoming unreadable."
Any solutions?
Quicksilver G4, 867 Mhz Mac OS X (10.4) Pioneer DVR-108 (not OEM), firmware 1.20, PatchBurn profile

I just wanted to add my 2 cents. I haven't been on this forum for months. I've been happily making DVDs in batches of 10 -50 to distribute. I've been making them in my emac. Occassionally I'd get ones that wouldn't play in a client's player. The solution was to send a replacement. Usually that worked. Often I'd send a replacement that wouldn't play in one client's player but found that the disk would play in another client's player. The worst case was when the ist three DVDs I sent to one person wouldn't play, but the fourth did. But most of the time, the second one I'd send worked fine (All of these were made in the same batch from the same media (usually Fuji or Verbatim).
Recently I started getting lots more than usual complaints about problem DVDs. I checked out a bunch of them by actually playing them on both my computer, and a stand alone Cyberhome player. They were all made from a particular batch of Fuji media. Now I've previously burned hundreds of playable DVDs made from Fuji media, so I imagine it is just a fluke. (I hope) Some of them would play perfectly all the way to the last 5 minutes of an hour long presentation, and then start stuttering. Some begin stuttering in the middle. Several wouldn't even start up in my cyberhome player. Most of them would end up freezing at some point during the stuttering. The stuttering was never at the same exact place on any of the DVDs.
As an aside, I discovered something that I didn't know was possible. When a DVD froze in my cyberhome player at the menu stage, I'd push the eject button, remove the DVD, and the menu frame was still visible unchanged on the TV until I turned off the player or put another DVD in! I guess there must be some sort of cache in the player that stores the image. Very interesting. I've never seen that with a normally functioning DVD.
I also played each defective DVD in my computer to compare. One or two managed to play all of the way through on the computer, but most exhibited similar misbehavior on my emac. I'd say that, in general though, they all played a bit better on my computer.
Then it occured to me that there was another possible explanation. I was burning these from a disk image file that I had stored on an external HD. Whenever I needed a new batch of DVDs I would copy the disk image file back onto my emac from the external drive, and use disk utility to burn the disks. What if the disk image was corrupted? That might explain the problems.
Another thought that occured to me was the perhaps the process of burning a dozen or more DVDs in a row might cause a heat buildup in the burner and affect the burning in some way.
So I retrieved a good DVD made in an earlier batch of Fuji, made a new disk image of it, and left the image on the computer and didn't transfer it back to the external drive (on TDK media, because that's all I had sitting around), played the copy back on both my computer and Cyberhome player to make sure it worked perfectly. I then generated another dozen copies.
You may wonder how I had enough time to do all this. I'd just put a DVD in the player or my emac and listen to it while doing my ordinary office work. If I heard stuttering(it was my voice on the DVD) I'd instantly notice. I did this all day for a couple of days.
So anyway, I played 5 finished TDK disks all the way through today and they played perfectly. I guess the next test is to use the disk image of the same DVD from my external drive to see if i also get a good burn from it on the same TDK media and burner.
I did have time to do one other test though. I took a couple of DVDs that played well and put paper lables on them using the stomper system. They still played perfectly on both my computer and Cyberhome player. I'd speculate that paper lables are probably okay if they are applied perfectly, perfect centering, no air bubbles, good contact, and the disk stored in clean dry area. I've seen other peoples' CDs or DVDs with paper lables that had become wrinkled from exposure to high humidity and/or heat. I can imagine that they would tend to malfunction.
One client with a certain brand player actually took the "offending" DVD down to a AV store, and bought a replacement player that WOULD play it. I do think that it is interesting and useful to know that one brand player will play a particular particular DVD and another won't.
Since I make batches, I'm considering buying a couple more different brand DVD players, and then doing a bit of quality control - Trying out sample DVDs on all players before I mail out a batch to clients.
I hope that my observations might be useful for others.
emac 1ghz superdrive Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Encoding and playback problem HD files

Hi all,
Currently, I'm using a new HD camcorder and have no problem with importing and playing these files is premiere cs4 pro. However, when I'm using six video track at the same time I experience some playback problems. After rendering, the video's play, but not smooth, they skip frames and playing a few frames back. In other words, it seems that the video playback stutters. The problem still excists when I encode the project to any file (mpeg2-blu ray, avi, etc). When using two video tracks (with two HD video) this problem is not present, even when these video's are in slowmotion. Installing the new update (4.2) did not solve the problem.
Specs of my system:
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8gb RAM
>200gb free disk space
windows 7, 64-bit
Does anyone have some suggestions to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jeffrey

Harm,
Sorry for not responing for a few days, but I runned the benchmark you'll send me. The main results (dee details attached file):
53,6, secs Total Benchmark Time
6,4, secs AVI Encoding Time
14,2, secs MPEG Elapsed Time
33, secs Rendering Time
Since the potential problem is my hard disk, inaddition, I runned HDtune (hopefully it will help pinpionting the problem):
disk1: avarage transfer rate: 94MB/s, acces time 13.8ms, burst rate 185MB/s
disk2: avarage transfer rate: 85MB/s, acces time 14ms, burst rate 157MB/s
disk3: avarage transfer rate: 73MB/s, acces time 13.9ms, burst rate 183MB/s
Analyzing these results, could the current hard disk configuration cause the problem I have, or is my system to slow anyway to edit AVCHD material?
If the hard disk configuration is the problem, could it be solved by applying your suggestion by removing all partitions? Since, I'm not looking forward of removing all partions(re-installing windows (dual boot win7 and vista), shifting a huge amount of data, etc), but if it would help I will do it.
Thanks inadvance,
Jeffrey

Video playback problems in iMovie08

I have been using iMovie08 for a while and have suddenly started having performance problems. When playing back an edited video CPU utilisation is maxing out and the video playback is skipping frames. This same video has not been a problem previously. I have noticed that there are quite a few similar issues being reported following the latest Quicktime update, I'm not sure if this is related but it is a coincidence.
The video plays back ok with music but as soon as a title displays the CPU goes from 70% to 90%+ and the video jumps from frame to frame rather than playing smoothly. Is anyone else having similar problems. I know iMovie08 is a pretty processor and memory intensive app but basically my experience suggests that a G5 iMac with 2.5GB memory isn't big enough to run iMovie08 when nothing else is running.

I can't be the only one with this issue. It affects both my iTunes on my mac mini and my iBook

ITunes playback stutters/skips

I have the latest version of iTunes (7.6.1) and when I playback music from the hard drive or web radio it randomly stutters/skips every so often. The music on my iPod and iPhone plays just fine. Any thoughts on why this might be?

This is a widespread issue, search the boards for "stutter" .... there must several hundred people posting on these forums with the same issue.
I have my 300GB + iTunes library on an external WD My Book Pro (a 2TB version set up as a 1TB RAID mirror) connected via FW800. I solved my stuttering playback problem by transferring my library to another external FW800 drive with two Seagate 200GB drives configured as a RAID stripe.
It would be interesting to get some stats on how many people have their iTunes library on external or network drives and what vendors the drives are manufactured by.
Post your iTunes config details here, even if you dont have the problem.

T -Box Foxtel on demand - playback problems

I have a t box - with a foxtel on t box subscription to essentials and movies - all foxtel Channels including showcase etc stream without problems. However I have had playback problems with some on demand content - in particular Movies - and shows such as game of thrones. They play fine for a few minutes then run slow and without sound. Other on demand shows such as Seinfeld or animated movies playback without a problem. I have set my streaming settings to standard quality. My plan is BigPond® Broadband 200GB Elite - ADSL2+ I just did a speed test and results were
Your line speed is 1.56 Mbps (1558 kbps).
Your download speed is 195 KB/s (0.19 MB/s).
I suspect the resolution of movies may be a problem however why does the same content stream fine in real time but not via an on demand service? E.g game of thrones. Any suggestions why on demand content may not be steaming even when video settings are standard quality?
Note the t box I am using us relatively old and I have a new one yet to be setup, Are there any additional streaming settings available in the newer units that may address these issues? Suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Hi Reson8
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On demand streaming : Does not factor in your speed or bandwidth, so when this drops, so does the the picture/sound, and or you get frequent picture freeze.
Feel free to send in your details via private message, so we can take a look at your connection.
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Hi,
I've been experiencing less than stellar video playback for a while. My system is P4 1.6A 256MB RAM with msi FX 5700 128 MB running on WIN98 SE . The thing is that before upgrading my drivers to 50.XX series , I never had video playback problems, totally smooth, then after the 50.XX series, certain video clips froze for a second when opened, then when I installed the 5306 drivers, my system used to freeze for a second before video playback and video seeking stuttered and froze a lot. Since upgrading to 56.55 and then 56.64 version , the freezeups and stutters are gone but now the quality of the video playback is really crappy and also there is this horizontal border around the video and it looks kinda 'squinched?!?' . This erratic video behaviour has been going on through out my upgrade from a FX5200 to FX5700 card and with both MSI and nvidia drivers. Presently I'm using nvidia non-branded drivers 56.64. Also, why do these newer drivers keep dummy-proofing there options pages, you cannot even experiment enough with the settings anymore and I'm afraid Riva tuner or powerstrip might not work with the newer releases.
I haven't experienced any problems with video games, just video playback, either windowed or full-screen. I would really appreciate any help with this problem, its getting to be like an itch at the back you just can't scratch.
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Song playback problem

On my 8gb nano I've been having a playback problem. A song will start playing and then stop. The nano will then skip to the next song. If I try to go backward to the begining of the song that wouldn't play, the nano skips over it and goes to the song that played before the song that wouldn't play. What can I do to troubleshoot or fix this problem?

Hi Wille_ecj!
You might need to reimport that song(s) into your iTunes library - or, you could try to play it in iTunes. And, if you are prompted to find the source of the file on your computer, try locating it.
If you can't locate it, just delete it from your iTunes library, then reimport it back in.
If this is a song that was purchased from the iTunes Store, however, then try and see if the techniques in this article help with that issue:
iPod doesn't play purchased content from the iTunes Store
-Kylene

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For the last few months my 3G 30gb iPod would just all of a sudden skip all of the songs on the playlist and then turn off. To fix it, i'd have to reset it, which didn't really help. Since then i've tried restoring it with the latest firmware. It's only seemed to get worse. Yesterday it was freezing or hanging for awhile. and i know many of you are having similar issues...
i'm hoping this won't jynx my luck but i wanted to share this with everyone anyway. i restored my ipod back to the 7-15-2004 version of the firmware (the oldest i had). ever since it seems to be a little quicker and i have experienced no skipping/freezing problems yet. i'm crossing my fingers.
if this works, maybe i'll drop it a couple times so it works like it used to.
HTH
Ethan

Something like that happened to me!
Read the following link and see how I fixed it.
JC Borges, "iPod updater 2005-09-06 & iTunes 5.0", 11:40am Sep 14, 2005 CDT
BR
JC Borges

Problem with freeze on Document forms

Hi all,
i've a problem with freeze on document's forms (like invoice) when i make changes on matrix.
For example i've an addon that calculate discounts for items and update the information in the matrix. But when I update the info in the Matrix I see the cursor run across the matrix.
This create two problems. The first one is the orrible aspect that the operation assume, the second is that sometimes some cells turn to black and remain ofthis color.
Can someone help me?
Here I post a piece of my code:
    Dim oForm As SAPbouiCOM.Form = SBOApplication.Forms.Item(FormUID)
    Dim oMatrix As SAPbouiCOM.Matrix = oForm.Items.Item("38").Specific
    Dim oRefLine As Integer = 0
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    Try
      While Cnt <= oMatrix.RowCount
        If oMatrix.Columns.Item("U_RefLineId").Cells.Item(Cnt).Specific.Value <> "" Then
          Dim apDouble As Double = oMatrix.Columns.Item("15").Cells.Item(Cnt).Specific.Value.ToString.Replace(".", ",")
          If apDouble <> 100 Then
            SetMatrixValue(oMatrix, "U_RefLineId", Cnt, "")
            SetMatrixValue(oMatrix, "11", Cnt, oMatrix.Columns.Item("U_OrigQtyMN").Cells.Item(Cnt).Specific.Value)
            SetMatrixValue(oMatrix, "U_OrigQtyMN", Cnt, 0)
            Cnt = Cnt + 1
          Else
            oMatrix.Columns.Item("15").Cells.Item(Cnt).Click()
            SBOApplication.ActivateMenuItem("1293")
          End If
        Else
          SetMatrixValue(oMatrix, "15", Cnt, 0)
          Cnt = Cnt + 1
        End If
      End While
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      SBOApplication.StatusBar.SetText("Error: " & ex.Message, SAPbouiCOM.BoMessageTime.bmt_Short, SAPbouiCOM.BoStatusBarMessageType.smt_Error)
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Hi Daniele,
I use a little different approach because the Freeze on a Form is like parenthesis on formula. You must be sure that the Freeze(true) are balanced by a Freeze(false).
So my pattern is:
Try
    oForm.Freeze(True)
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Catch Ex as Exception
    ' Menage the errors here
Finally
    oForm.Freeze(False)
End Try
The Finally statement is executed in both case when an Exception is raised or when the code is right executed.
But I think this is not the problem in your code.
If you still having problem, probably we need to examine your sub-routine "SetMatrixValue".
It is also important to know your SAP Business One version because in the past there was a version with a problem in the refresh of matrix.
I use SAP Business One 2007A SP01 PL06 HF1 and I do not have problem with the freezing.
Hope it helps.
Carmine

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Can anyone identify my screen problem that freezes? Alternately I get this image all over screen (see pic) or just a few horizontal dotted lines.
I have to force reboot.
Any thoughts appreciated.
iMac27, 3.5Ghz i7, 32 Gb ram, 3T drive.
Mavericks 10.9.5
I use the Adobe CC suite the most.
Thank you.
ETRE report prior to this image
Problem description:
iMac keeps freezing and returning to login
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated 4 November 2014 2:45:09 pm AEDT
Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac14,2
1 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
32 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM1
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M - VRAM: 4096 MB
iMac 2560 x 1440
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 0:15:11
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted> : 134 MB
Macintosh HD imac27 (disk5) / [Startup]: 3.11 TB (2.84 TB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online
Core Storage: disk3s2 3.00 TB Online
SAMSUNG HN-M101MBB disk1 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
disk1s2 (disk1s2) <not mounted> : 999.86 GB
Boot OSX (disk1s3) <not mounted> : 134 MB
SAMSUNG HN-M101MBB disk2 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
disk2s2 (disk2s2) <not mounted> : 999.86 GB
Boot OSX (disk2s3) <not mounted> : 134 MB
APPLE HDD ST3000DM001 disk3 : (3 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk3s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk3s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD imac27 (disk5) / [Startup]: 3.11 TB (2.84 TB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online
Core Storage: disk3s2 3.00 TB Online
USB Information: ℹ️
VIA Labs, Inc.          USB3.0 Hub
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos PTS
VIA Labs, Inc.          USB2.0 Hub
Fitbit Inc. Fitbit Base Station
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
LaCie Little Big Disk
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.wacomtablet (6.3.9 - SDK 10.9) Support
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[failed] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
[running] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.fitbit.galileod.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.koingosw.MacCleanse4Helper.Reminder.plist Support
[loaded] com.koingosw.MacCleanse4Helper.TrashWatcher.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
Creative Cloud Application (/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
EPPEX Plugin: Version: 4.1.0.0 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.6 - SDK 10.9 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 71 Check version
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Dashlane: Version: Dashlane 1.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
Dashlane
Pin It Button
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Java Support
WacomTablet Support
Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      7% Safari
      5% WindowServer
      4% WacomTabletDriver
      1% WacomTouchDriver
      0% powerd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
241 MB WindowServer
213 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
206 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
206 MB Safari
172 MB mds_stores
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
27.84 GB Free RAM
4.04 GB Active RAM
708 MB Inactive RAM
1.76 GB Wired RAM
518 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

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