room temperature for PC

[hpharley90]

My PC is located in the cellar.
The cellar is not heated but it never goes below 61 degrees F in winter and that is where it is right now with a 33% relative humidity. I have a space heater next to me when I work.
When I am playing a video today either from internal hard drive or my external the video has what I call trails on all movements Very jerky.
I'm using WMP to watch.
This is my first time seeing this. But I don't know if it's because of the temperature.
So I am afraid to do editing because of this problem.
Does anyone think it could be because of the temp?
Thanks
Rich

[cdeemer]

My computer is in an unheated basement office that gets cold enough that I work in the same jacket I wear outside. Never a problem with anything not working, so I doubt if it's temperature related.

[hpharley90]

It appears it is not the temperature. I played a couple of the HD motion backgrounds I got from muvipix and they work fine.
I also played an AVI background from muvipix and no problem.
I wish I new what was causing the trails and jerkiness.

[hpharley90]

My computer is in an unheated basement office that gets cold enough that I work in the same jacket I wear outside. Never a problem with anything not working, so I doubt if it's temperature related.

Thanks cdeemer.

[Chuck Engels]

Our server room at work has its own air conditioning unit, kept at 60 degrees constantly.
I have mine in my basement at home, probably in the low 60's at times and not a problem.
It would have to get really cold to harm a computer, heat is another story, so is high humidity or low humidity.

[hpharley90]

Thanks Chuck. Well temp is not the problem. I'll try playing some video thru Nero and Power DVD and I'll see if they play fine or not.

[hpharley90]

I got the trails and jerkiness with playback in WMP and Nero Showtime. Power DVD is for DVD only.(I never new that. I think it's first time used.)

My Windows XP Media Center Edition player plays the video perfectly normal.

I never had this problem before. WMP always played everything fine.

My NLE software has no trails or jerkiness in their respective monitors.

Any ideas as to what could be causing the trails in WMP?

[hpharley90]

Well things seemed to iron themselves out.

After my last post I went back and was trying it again and WMP and Nero both worked fine now.


Thanks

[Chuck Engels]

Could have been some background process Richard, maybe a virus scan or something?