Bad DVD and DivX video quality on Sony Vaio Notebook.

[nthl4e]

Hello guys,

I own a Sony Vaio GRX560 (Notebook), video quality is absolute awful and jerky, whether it's DVD or DivX. I tried to install all kind of codecs (3.11, 4.12, 5.03 Pro, Nimo Build 8, Tsunami, XVid ...) and I even installed one by one but it didn't work. The picture is very blocky and blurry, it drives me nut.
I am using Windows XP SP1, DirectX 9, latest ATI driver (Radeon 7500) from Sony Support site.

Does anybody have the same problem with codec thing like this, please share your exp.

Thanks.

p/s: Do you think that this comes from DirectX 9 or Windows XP, since upgraded to XP I got headaches with video and audio problems.

[The Edge]

I can really answer your question as I don't have a Vaio.
What I will say is I have WinXP Pro (SP1) with DX9 and an ATI Radeon......no problems.

I would suggest FFDshow

You could also try FFDshow.
FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It's great IMHO. FFDSHOW consumes way less CPU power than original DivX codecs, even with maximum post-processing. At the same time the post-processing seems to give excellent quality results and allows more configuring than the original DivX 3/4/5 codec. It can even automaticly reduce post-processing if your CPU is getting overloaded. Give it a try

Edge