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Mpeg/video Help

OK...i have a problem.....

i FORMATTED my drive today right...dont ask why...long story...but i reinstalled everything fine...except one thing seems to be weird..

When i watch my music/movies videos in Windows media Player 7...the Video seems to pause itself for a SPLIT second every once and awhile.....but the audio doesnt it still stays in sync with the video....this mainly happens with DIVX videos..but also with others...i really dont think this happened before i formatted my drive but it is now...

So basically i will be watching a video and then it will stop for like a SPLIT second then resume playing.....is this a Video Card problem...maybe i installed the wrong driver...or is it a Memory problem or is it a player or codec problem....

has anyone senn this before

it doesn't necessarily have to be a defect with any of the software, it could be that u have hidden programs running in the background that r wasting speed...happens w/ my comp often, so i close the other programs

peace

ok i tryed that and it still happends.....any other ideas

If ur watching DIV X's try using the player that came with the DIV X codec, its called "the playa"

Jon

ok i tryed with the Playa and it seems fines...i guess Windows Media Player jus messes up the video on my computer....thats weird...but aslong as i get to watch them i am cool...thanks for that help

If your keen to use windows media player, try visiting http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ , this site tells you what updates are avaliable for windows (I think media player is covered).

Also as AnotherWay83 said, other programs running could be taking up memory and resources, seeing as the playa works, id assume that media player takes up more memory/wants more resources.

If you know how to run defrag then run it, it may help.

Jon

yea i would prefer to watch the videos in Windows Media Player...but i think u may be right that WMP takes up MORE memory/resources thern the Playa....

you think if i defrag my hard drive it might help??

Yeah, defraging should help, imm assuming u dont have loads of RAM (like 512 meg +) therefore windows will be using virtual memory (using part of the hard disk to fool the system into thinking its RAM). If you drive is fragmented (Parts of the files all over the disk) then defragging will set things right.

I think this because in general videos are large files, and u mentioned that they only stopped for a split second which could mean memory and virtual memory is at the fault, try defraging, theres nouthing bad it can do .....as long as you know wot ur doing

jon

ok thanks...i am going to let it defrag over night and i will let u know how it worked out

tiesto14: use this proggie

go to

--> start --> run --> type in "mplayer2" --> hit enter

Media Player will pop up (the previous one...not the new one)
use that to play the files...see what you get.

Personally, I like this better than the newer one...such a bloated piece of shite!

to SYNthSRI...yea you know what i did before i defargged my drive was uninstall the Windows Media Player 7 and started to use the media player you are talking about...and it works 10 times bettter....thanks

Just tried that, its media player without all the "extra" bits microsoft think we need, like internet seachs about the current artist etc


Jon

w00t

glad I can be of some help...if any

quote:

Originally posted by SYNthSRI tiesto14: use this proggie go to --> start --> run --> type in "mplayer2" --> hit enter Media Player will pop up (the previous one...not the new one) use that to play the files...see what you get. Personally, I like this better than the newer one...such a bloated piece of shite!

yeah i did that, i TOTALLY didnt like the new windows player i still use the old one to watch my vids...less complicated...

>JM<

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