Coreplayer 1.2.5: Help me out with settings

[ajbopp]

Coreplayer used to work pretty well for me on my Vogue, but lately the video has become so choppy that it's unwatchable. It doesn't seem to matter much what video or resolution I'm watching. I have no idea what changed and I'm looking for some tips on what to look at. Currently I use RawFrameBuffer and pretty much everything else is, I think, the default.

The interesting thing (to me at least) is that the video is very smooth as long as I select Benchmark from the Tools menu. No dropped frames at all.

Anyone have a clue what I should try adjusting?

[nir36]

If it changed all of a sudden maybe it's a device issue. are you running any new services or apps?

[ajbopp]

I wish it were that simple. If anything I'm running fewer. I have fewer things going on now with my device than probably since I first bought it 14 months ago.

[nir36]

So what you're saying is (just so i can understand) that you had the Vogue and everything went well with CorePlayer. And now, after 14 months of use, with few programs running, it's slower for no apparent reason?

Did you perform a hard reset/flash a rom since you first got it?

[ajbopp]

Not exactly. I'm saying that something obviously changed, but I'm not sure what or when. I do remember that it behaved something like this when I first installed it 14 months ago, but I changed some settings and it worked better. But I've forgotten what those settings were, so I guess I'm asking for people's views on optimization.

As for hard resets, yes, I've had several, but always been able to restore from backup not more than two weeks old.

[nir36]

when you restored from the backup.. did you also restore the same CorePlayer installation? i'm trying to figure out if it's a HW problem or with CorePlayer

[ajbopp]

I believed I restored the coreplayer files and settings just about every time I've needed to do a restore. Coreplayer is on a storage card, and I've found that every so often WinMo corrupts the file system on the card, so I back up all of the Program Files folder there, as well as everthing in flash. Personally I think it's a software problem, or Coreplayer wouldn't be playing the moving fine in Benchmark mode.

[Jed Dignazio]

Why wouldnt you just delete and reinstall coreplayer? Reseting all settings?

[ajbopp]

Why wouldnt you just delete and reinstall coreplayer? Reseting all settings?

Because I'm old and my memory is gone. Altzheimer's is creeping up on me. I do not remember what settings I changed or how to get good performance all those months ago, therefore reinstalling is not likely to have any positive effect. I already know that the default settings (for which there is a button to press in any case) will give me unfortunate performance.

[sharonbacon]

Hi
Can you help with this think it's to with file associations .... am downloading wmv files (for portable devices) direct to my memory card from the BBC Iplayer (wmv) they play fine in WMP but when I try to play the same file in Coreplayer it won't play (pink screen with a circular thing in the middle).

Is this something to with the Media Usage rights for the files or a setting I should remember to tweak during the download or in Coreplayer itself?

[FloatingFatMan]

Why not just download the latest version 1.3 from their site? Might perform better...