Quicktime + Real Media and RAID

[Blacklash]

Anyone have massive pausing with Real Media and Quicktime using RAID 0? I am on VISTA as well. They worked great when I had my drives set up the old way with the paging file on the secondary drive. Smooth as butter. With RAID 0 they pause every 3 to 4 seconds for 5 to 6 seconds. Widows Media Player files are fine in RAID 0 for me.

[Q]

Weird. Are you using this Raid as the location for your Windows installation or just as extra storage? (It sounds like Windows installation but I just want to be sure).

[Blacklash]

Yes as windows installation. I wanted to try Vista and RAID 0. I currently just use the two raptors. It did well besides that odd behavior I outlined. It had almost zero impact in real gaming though. It made loading levels and maps hella fast and actually moving about afterwards was the same. I was hoping it would help Vanguard's city areas like Hathor Zhi and if it did I couldn't tell. I went back to my old way of doing things; OS and programs on my main drive and paging file isolated to my secondary drive. Real media and Quicktime run fluid now.

I may try again down the line if I buy another drive. I will use the new larger drive for the OS and storage and twin raptors in RAID 0 for the paging file.

[nekrosoft13]

this probably has nothing to do with raid, i would uninstall all codec packs, and try one at a time, so see which is actually causing the problem

[itink]

I have the same issue and it has everything to do with raid. If you look in the Vista event viewer you will find event id 9 errors with a source of iastor, which is the intel raid driver. This is the source of the quicktime slowdown. If you leave quicktime running long enough it will fail both drives of a raid 1 array and Vista will crash. You will not be able to reboot unless you enter the raid bios at startup and recover the array. I have seen some other posts about this behavour being produced by the slingbox media player. I suspect we will see a raid driver update from intel soon. Well at least I hope so.

[SLippe]

Realplayer is pure sh!t.

[crainger]

How are things in Old Vizima?

[einstein_314]

I would say it's not a RAID problem...more likely a codec problem. Have you tried using other programs to play your files? like VLC media player, or media player classic.

I have a RAID 0 array here on the onboard Intel RAID controller. No problems like you say. Oh and i'm running Vista x64.

I would uninstall all your media programs/codec packs and start adding them one at a time.

DOH! Just noticed this thread was from a while ago....