Audio off on friends comp. but not on mine?

[Deus]

I recently borrowed my friends laptop because I was going on a trip and I wanted to watch some movies ( in DivX). He has The Playa and the 4.1 codec but when I watched them there was audio and video but they were very off. like a min off. They are fine on my home computer so I know its not the video. What do I need to add to his computer to get them to work?

[Batman]

What are the hardware configuration of the laptop? If it is an old machine, it may have difficulty playing back divx. In which case, either or a combination of these steps may help:

1) turn off background applications
2) reduce color to 16 bit
3) reduce desktop area to 640x480
4) a less CPU intensive player such as GDIVX or Yahooplayer.

[The jackal]

thanks batman, I had a similiar problem where the sound was out from the video. Tried everything, then the GDIVX player you suggested works and cured the problem. Thanks again

[Batman]

Glad I could help