mp3's garbled+slowing down?
 

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been covered before but I couldn't find it anywhere.

Bascially in winamp when using the visualisations (especially then full screen ones) the audio slows down! it sounds garbled and poor quality - almost incomprehensible, the same effect is also apparent when using the some of the visuals in windows media player?

I've tried several combinations of drivers for the sound card and graphics card but to no avail,

Any ideas?

Regards :)

system:-
Athlon 1333 266FSB
K7S5A without LAN and Onboard sound AC97 (BIOS 011109)
256MB SDRAM PC133
40GB WD 7200rpm
Creative TNT2 M64 32MB PCI
32x CDRom
16x4x4x Philips CD-RW
WinTV Go PCI TV Card
56k PCI SupraExpress Modem
WindowsXP

There's your problem.
Get a proper soundcard and all your troubles will go away :)

A list of decent cards can be found in these threads/links:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=57617
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....948#post426948
http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/compare/index.htm

Further info/issues re: ac97
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=46306
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=60907

http://www.viahardware.com/download/index.shtm (AC97 driver update for Via/Southbridge chipset - listed @ bottom of page: Other Drivers)


You could also try this official update patch:
Winamp 2.78 Update

Updates both out_wave & out_ds plugins to peter's new versions, also updates in_mod.dll, in_midi.dll & in_wave.dll to new pre v2.79 / 2.80 versions.
Also includes optional Experimental DS Output, extra Gapless WaveOut, in_vorbis.dll . . .

Further details: (READ THIS FIRST)
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=68811