FS1: Movie skippings?

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I'm a newbie to the Freespace community, and I've recently purchased Freespace Battlepack (FS1+Silent Threat).

Now, it's is to my dismay that the movie playback seems to skip it sounds from time to time after a few seconds or more.

Sounds like a buffering problem, but I also had the same problem when viewing the Freespace 2 trailer.

My specs are:
Pentium III 800Mhz
Geforece 2Ti 64MB
SBLive sound card
running Win98SE as the OS.

Any suggestions?

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True but that PC should be able to keep up with the FS1 movies.

Standard advice is to make sure you have the latest drivers etc.

Not a cure but the FS1 movies in avi form are available from here.

The movies are played in this order.

Intro
Ancients 1
Lab
CommandBrief
Ancients 2
Hallfight
Ancients 3
Ancients 4
Ancients 5
Endgame

At least you can just Alt Tab out and play them in your movie player until you can fix this :)
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Also check the actual CD itself, see if it runs fine on another machine you may have access to. I had a Descent 3 disc once that was very jittery only in movie playback, overtime I replaced the copy and the movie playback was fine.

Chances are though, something is messing with the playback. I guess maybe a background task, too, might cause that...
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