media player not working right

[Sarah]

I got a new computer and i've had nothing but problems
with playing video and with media player. It came with
XP and i have the newest player (9). It took me forever
to get my videos to work. I had them on my other
computer that was running win 98. They were fine, they
worked fine, I used media player 7. I finally have these
working and the quality is awful. The video and sound
are together but the video is jerky. I have all the
possible updates for my windows stuff i could get. I
have all the newest codecs for divx, xvid and a couple
others. The only way i can get it to stop being jerky is
by using the new player, 9, and having it at the lowest
video acceleration. I had the old player 2 working fine
with top acceleration but now it won't work either, even
with lowest. Please help this problem has been going on
for over a month. And the videos are fine... i checked
them on my old comp... and when the old media player was
working fine on this one i checked them here as well.

i have xp running, celeron 1.7, 224 ram, 40 gb.

 

[Sarah]

I tried to get the i.di utility but i coudln't get it
to work. I don't really think that it's a problem of not
enough stuff on my computer.... my videos played fine on
the last which was a pentium 2, 450 processor, 96 ram,
8Gb. If they worked fine then and media player worked
fine then, i don't think that's the big problem. I mean
i know that stuff would help but really isn't it fairly
redundant to get more memeory after 256?

Do you have any other ideas? I mean my computer is fast
and the video worked on the old media player 3 weeks
ago. Thanks for the help