System hangs whenever any video is played back.

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I recently had a fatal system crash and had to reinstall windows xp. After
installation was complete i found out i didnt lose any of my media files.
However any video files i try to play causes the system to hang and freeze no
matter the media player. The cpu usage peaks at 100% and stays peaked until
i manually end the process. The drivers are up to date and everything else
is working correctly, I've run out of options. Please help.
 
Hi
Did you do a clean installation or repair of windows ?
Possible the required Video codec is not available to play the video
files.
Does your harddrive lights blink heavy when it tries to play the video
files ?
Possible your disk is fragmented badly. try doing a CHKDSK and run
system defragger on your drives in the safemode. Media applications
need data to be supplied to them in a steady flow and if associated
files are fragmented , such problems may arise.
 
I ran a clean installation, but all I didnt lose any of media files. I keep
all my media files in one folder and I guess the installation didnt delete
that particualr folder.
 
You probably did not format the drive prior to re-installing Windows. If you
did not you are going to run into other problems due to duplicate system
files.
 
well I just finished formatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything,
defragged it, and ran chkdsk on it and.....still cant play videos.....
 
HMMM what do you mean by cannot play video. Are you playing from CD's ?
What happens when you try to play ? Is it with Media player, WinDVD
RealOne or any such players.
How about providing your system details also ?
 
Im talking about any kind of video files, streaming video from the net and
vids from my hard drive. When i try playing it the media player stops
responding and the cpu runs up 100% and stays no matter what media player i
try to use. Also, im running an AMD 64 2800+ with a nvidia 6600 GT 128MB AGP
card, running on windows XP home edition without sevice pack 2 installed
 
I have EXACTLY the same problem.
I had a NVIDIA MX440 graphics card and everything was working fine.
Now I bought a NVIDIA AGP6200A (from Albatron), installed the latest
NVIDIA drivers (02-SEPT-2005) and Media Player slows down the computer
with any kind of video. Quicktime works fine with MOVs.
If I change the graphics card back to the MX440, everything goes fine
again.

Jaymz escreveu:
 
so that should narrow it down to some kind of system setting on the
card...but i've looked through them all and i cant find anything that would
cause that problem
 
Ok i've pretty much narrowed down the source of the problem to directshow. I
figured out that i can play AVI video files because AVI files doesnt use the
MCI driver directshow to play those types of files, but directshow is used to
all MPEG files.
 
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