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| cheeky_chappie |
| Posted: Jan 26 2003, 05:25 PM |
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Hi,
I've a system running Win 98 SE, 600MHz Athlon, 27GB Fujitsu hard drive, 128MB RAM, nVidia TNT2 32MB graphics. As far as media players went, all I had was Windows Media Player version 7 and GDiVX player. I had lots of video clips, ranging in size from a few MB up to 700 MB, mpeg and avi format.
Without a word of a lie I never had any problems playing any of the clips. I always used GDiVX player as Media Player didn't play the sound with some of the clips. Mpegs and avi's played no problem. I used to hear people saying about problems playing avi's and would count myself lucky I never had any bother.
I've recently bought a new hard drive. Installed it, formatted FAT32 as the previous drive was, installed OS, then installed Windows Media Player and GDiVX. I went to play an avi file .... guess what .... doesn't play properly at all .... jumps and jolts along. Sound is okay. Mpegs play no problem, so it's obviously a problem with avi's.
Since then, I've tried every codec combo you could think of, and different players. Even downloaded an avi checker program that tells you what codec the clip is and if you have them installed. Even when this says I have the correct codec and the clip will play okay guess what? It doesn't!
If anyone has any advice as to what is going wrong please let me know. I know you can convert avi to mpeg but a 500 MB avi would take forever! What puzzles me is how I never had any problems before, now no matter what I try the avi's play in slow motion or worse. I even tried the Nimo codec pack which is supposed to solve most problems.
I even put the old hard drive back in. Unfortunately it had been formatted so I had to install everything back on to it, but avi's don't play smoothly on it either.
Help!
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| drizztcanrender |
| Posted: Jan 27 2003, 02:30 PM |
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Well if i seem to remember correctly some people had problems with some mp3 codc package.I can remember which one exactly.But from what it seems your problems lie with some codec mix up.Try uninstalling them and installing again.Also a lot of the avis out there still use divx3.11.So get that too,although i think divx5.03 supports it.Also get xvid.And quit using media player 7,it sucks.Try media player 6.4,it's a lot better.Just type mplayer.exe in start -> run. |
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| lhermine |
| Posted: Feb 1 2003, 09:05 PM |
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Is DMA enabled on that HD IDE port (W98 turns it off by default, probably on your new install)
Enabling DMA for the drive reduces your CPU load bigtime
Device Mgr->HDD->Properties->check box saying DMA
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| Ainshi |
| Posted: Feb 1 2003, 11:19 PM |
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I can't imagine why this would change, but this is something i've encountered today while trying to re-encode a video made with GordianKnot (needed to shrink it down). The file I was trying to shrink was encoded with a VBR mp3 audio track. When using vdub to re-encode (process video, stream copy audio) it performed successfully, but it played with more or less the exact same symptoms you describe. The video was jumpy for about 1/4 of the movie (skipping lots of frames) while the audio played fine but went through the entire track at the exact time the video errors ended (and the video flowed smoothly). The thing is, the movie was the exact same length as it should be.
Point being, after a lot of trial and error (and the key being upgrading vdub so I get it's startup VBR error) I found that vdub will NOT encode VBR mp3 tracks. The original encode was with Nandub. Vdub must have not been able to read the audio track flags correctly and encoded it funny such that Media Player was unable to play it properly. The thing is, vdub itself could play the file just fine. Anyways, while at this point i'm not sure this is anything you can fix, but at least it's a possible cause. |
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