Audio / Video skipping ( reward to who ever helps fix )

[jupzchris]

I will paypal the person who can ever help me fix my problem some cash.


Here is my machine

a 1 ghz gateway with 256 megs of ram


I recently had to go back in the registry and this is when all of it started


Anytime i play video's or mp3's in windows media player or winamp3 they skip and and are all choppy. I can play mp3's fine in winamp2 though.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled wmp9 and i have downloaded dirextx9 and still nothing.


I am running windows 98 se


Come on lets help me out i got the money to pay to whoever gives me a fix.

[Enchanter]

Try reinstalling the players, codecs and your video-/sound-card drivers.

Have you tried System Restore and brought the PC back to its previously working state? A reinstall would do wonders too and clean up any other garbage you have accumulated in the system.


"I will paypal the person who can ever help me fix my problem some cash."

You're joking, aren't you?


Regards.

[GeneralLeoFF]

You may have generated some kinda major DirectShow conflict. One option to try sence it's windows 98se is to just re install windows over top of the exesting install. that should fix alot of the problems.

Another possable fix would be to un regester all DirectShow componets and then only regester the defult codecs that installed with the OS. You would have to re install media player and probly a bunch of updates on windows update again to.

Winamp would still play MP3 without skipping probly becose it dosnt use DirectShow and has it's own internal MP3 codecs.

[jupzchris]

Originally posted by Enchanter
Try reinstalling the players, codecs and your video-/sound-card drivers.

Have you tried System Restore and brought the PC back to its previously working state? A reinstall would do wonders too and clean up any other garbage you have accumulated in the system.


"I will paypal the person who can ever help me fix my problem some cash."

You're joking, aren't you?


Regards.

No I am not joking about paypal'in the person who helps me money.

[jupzchris]

For the answers i have gotten so far


What is ' direct show ' ? And how Would I remove it ?

I installed over my OS yesterday due to not wanting to format and losing all my data and backing things up is out of the question at the moment.


And what do you mean uninstall so and so blah blah blah and installing codecs? What codecs ? And my sound card / video card drivers are all installed and working properly and all my video games run fine and my sound works perfect

it is just when i try to play my movie's and mp3's ( other than the mp3's i play in winamp2 )

[GeneralLeoFF]

DirectShow is the standard way Windows handles media playback. From movies to music... Windows Media Player is a DirectShow based player and Winamp 3 video mode also depends on DirectShow to play movies.

It is a collection of codecs that are required to play back diffrent types of media. MP3 requires an MP3 codec and DivX video requires a DivX codec. All players that use the DirectShow system share all of there codecs with each other.

Sence your saying Winamp2 plays MP3's fine (it;s not using directshow) and sound on video games and other things all work fine it sounds as though you somehow cripled DirectShow.

[jupzchris]

but how do i fix it i dun care what i did i just wanna watch my movies

[jupzchris]

im going to sleep for 5 hours

gotta get up at 8:30 am

please help leave your paypal address here just incase whatever you post may fix my problem

thanks ahead of time ! ! ! ! trust me this will be worth your time =)

[GeneralLeoFF]

I dont know man. Reinstalling windows should have cleaned up the regestry.

Heres is what I ment by un regestering everything DirectShow and starting from scratch.

--everything below is copyright www.inmatrix.com. I give credit where it's due and they may not like me posting this here --

The Last Resort:
If your system is completely screwed up and you're thinking of reinstalling the operating system from scratch to fix your media playback problems, here is a last resort action you can take prior to doing this. Notice, this action may damage media playback on your system, but if you follow it carefully, you should be ok. Just make sure to read all the instructions carefully and don't skip any steps.

Here are the series of actions you will need to take in order to reset your media playback settings to their default values (As they should be after a fresh OS install).



You will first need to obtain Zoom Player v3.10 or newer.
Run Zoom Player and open the "Options / Filter Control / Management" tab and click on the "Registered Filter Manager" button.
Select all the filters in the list (highlight the first filter, hold shift and press the End button on the keyboard).
Press on the "Unregister Filters" Button.
Close Zoom Player.
You will now need to re-register the filters that come with the system on a fresh install. To do this, run this batch file.
To restore DVD Playback capabilities without reinstalling the DVD Player, you may also need to register the DVD Filters that came with your player. You should be able to do that using Zoom Player's Customized DVD Playback interface by selecting the decoders you use and pressing the "Register" button.
Now go back to the start of this article and configure media playback accordingly.

the file to download: http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/files/regreset.bat

--end copyrighted text --

This is a somewhat risky thing to do but it wont screw up your system for anything but DirectShow (witch seems already screwed). Just follow it step by step.

[sfheath]

Judging from what I've read so far, might I suggest you try this:
Find your Windows CD!
Go to Control Panel/Add/Remove Software.
Click the Windows Setup tab, scroll down to Multimedia and highlight it. Click Details.
scroll to video compression and audio compression, unticking them. Click OK twice. You should be prompted for a reboot. Do it.
Repeat the above, enabling the two compressions, maybe another reboot.
Come back and tell us how you did?

[jupzchris]

I tried what you said Sfheath. That didnt help :-/

GeneralLeoFF

I can try waht you said but i will more than likely break my ocmputer doing that.


Any more tips ?


Here is something else that happend. SOme mp3's i downloaded last night that i tried playing in winamp3 that woudnt play right there now dont play right in winamp2 they skip like crazy

but all of my others work fine still..



HELP ME

[jupzchris]

Another update :

I reinstalled over my OS again ( did not format )

and still the same problem.

[bosscain]

prob is your machine and your OS,upgrade your OS to XP and added ram would greatly improve your outcome.also check to see if you have unnessessary programs running in the background.if you do theses programs drain your resources.stopping them will greatly help performance

[jupzchris]

I've down all that and I dont see a need to upgrade my pc to xp when xp just gives people more trouble

and 256 megs of ram is plently for a work machine =)

[Enchanter]

"I dont see a need to upgrade my pc to xp when xp just gives people more trouble"

Explain.

I don't remember XP giving much problems in light of the fact that Win98 is even shakier and more prone to problems.


Cheers.