Choppy playback

[Puzzled]

I need some help figuring out why the divx (any versions) movies I play have choppy video. It doesnt freeze, but its kinda skipping along every second or so . I played them with Windows media player 6.4 and The Playa with the same results. Any help would be appreciated.....Thanks.

[Enchanter]

What is your CPU speed and the resolution of the videos with which you are having difficulty?

[Puzzled]

I have an Athlon 1700 (runs at about 1.5ghz) and the size of the video doesnt really matter. A small size video is just as choppy as a big one. ... Thanks for your interest Enchanter.

[TerryC]

Re: Choppy playback

*BUMP*

hi all,

i got exactly the same problem with my divx 3.11 encoded movies. the quality of audio & video are good but the play back seems to be choppy every few seconds or so and it doesn't matter whether i used lower bitrate/higher keyframes...etc or not

my machine is athlon xp 1800+, xp pro and 512mb ddr ram. can anyone help?

thanks.

terry

[khp]

The problem could be audio related.

just to check, try demuxing the audio.
Using virtualdub set video to direct stream copy and audio to no audio, and save that as a new file.

Try playing this file.

[hacker_on_fire]

is the audio ac3, cos if it is u need to register the ac3 codecs

[Puzzled]

Khp,

I just tried that demuxing thing with no success.

Hacker,

The audio was encoded with mpeg layer 3.

THanks for trying to help.

Any other ideas are most welcomed.

[setarip]

To Puzzled

Are these videos that you've created? If so, what methodology did you use from rip through conversion?

Are these videos that you've downloaded? If so, were they all downloaded from the same source?

Which version of Windows are you running?

Do you need/Have you installed DirectX?

Do you have hardware acceleration turned on?

[Puzzled]

Hi setarip,

Theyre videos I've downloaded. From a single user? The odds are theyre not.
You know how it is when you download a 700 meg video .
I'm running win98SE and I have directX 8 installed and working fine.
No problems were found by the diagnostic tool.
As for the hardware acceleration, I have no clue as to how to check on that but I right-clicked my desktop, went to properties, settings, advanced, and under the performance tab it says that the hardware acceleration is on full. I hope thats what you wanted to know.

Thanks for helping out.

[TerryC]

hi,

my problem fixed now. thats all because i was using the divx audio instead of the proper mpeg layer-3 one in audio compression. and guess what, the radium mp3 codec wasnt even installed properly.

playback seems to be fine now. just to let the others know as well.

terry

[IvgenyIAS]

i got the same problem

the funny thing is that the problem occurs when i play the movie from my hard drive but when i play it from the cd rom, it plays smoothly.

[setarip]

To both Puzzled and IvgenyIAS

1) If you haven't done so recently, defragmenting your hard drive might resolve the problem

2) if your hard drive supports it, turn on DMA


To Puzzled:

"You know how it is when you download a 700 meg video"

Actually, I don't. I create all of my videos from my DVDs...

[IvgenyIAS]

Re: To both Puzzled and IvgenyIAS

Originally posted by setarip
1) If you haven't done so recently, defragmenting your hard drive might resolve the problem

2) if your hard drive supports it, turn on DMA

Thanks, that worked.

[setarip]

To IvgenyIAS

My pleasure ;>}

[dvdhackmaster]

Lotsa people have the same problem with wmp when playing Divx file . It might be a bug of it .
You can use Divx Player or PowerDVD .