just a quick question..

[beno]

I'm on an old Dell CPi pII 266mhz 128mb ram laptop running Win2k and I wanted to bring it on a trip with me so I can check out a movie while I'm away. I installed the Xvid codec from the ffdshow-20030103.exe and I also installed the mp3 and ac3 codecs. When I tried to watch a movie of mine, the sound and video are ok except for the fact that the sound is about 2 seconds late.. on my PC upstairs the movie is in sync. Now my desktop upstairs is much faster and has more ram and a better vid card.. so I'm guessing there's not much I can do about it and that the problem is the laptop.. but I was just curious if anybody could tell me something more promising.

Thanks for any ideas,
Andy

**update: I uninstalled all ffdshow codecs and audio codecs then installed tsunami_filter_pack_3_3_9, no luck.

[SKD_Tech]

First of all I would try another file and see if the problem is still there.

DivX/Xvid files play best when using a :

800 MHZ
128 Ram
64MB Video Card
A hard drive that reads files pretty quickly

[beno]

yeah the problem is still there.. oh well, no big deal.. thanks SKD

[setarip]

1) Lower your laptop's DESKTOP resolution (perhaps to 640x480)

2) Lower your laptop's DESKTOP colordepth (perhaps to 256 colors)

3) Shutdown any unnecessary programs running in the background

[beno]

I'll try this when I get home from work today and let you know how it goes, thanks setarip