In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Jorge Novillo continue a series on Media eXperience Analyzer (MXA). We examine a video glitch scenario, and show how to use MXA to determine what caused the problem. Media eXperience Analyzer (formerly WindowsXRay) is a tool used to visualize ETW traces, with a particular emphasis on media scenarios such as audio/video capture and playback. Timeline:[00:00] Introductions and overview[01:10] For an introduction to MXA, and explanation of how to capture a trace, refer to Defrag Tools Episode #149.[01:20] Loading the trace into MXA[02:28] Step 1: Look at the Video Glitches and Video Glitches Severity datasets to see where the glitches happened and how bad they were.[05:00] Step 2: Zoom in on a glitch and look at the DX VSync ISR/DPC Cadence dataset[05:52] Handy MXA tip: Press the ` key (grave accent) to automatically rescale the Y-axis of the graph.[08:34] Trace shows the graphics driver skipped a VSync - next step is to follow up with the graphics driver vendor[10:25] Email us at [email protected]