System hangs whenever any video is played back.

[Guest]

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.

 

[kenchi]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

well I just finished formatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything,
defragged it, and ran chkdsk on it and.....still cant play videos.....

 

[kenchi]

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 ?

 

[Guest]

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

 

[banha]

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:

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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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