Video Problem

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I am having problems with playing video files. The picture and sound skips,
the video pauses (the sound usually carries on going), or the video jerks.
It's like watching a scratched DVD. It does it with all video formats.
Whatever program I use, it still does it. I have quite a fast computer with
512 RAM, 80GB HardDrive and 1.8GHz processor and Windows XP Pro SP2. I
recently upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 98SE. Videos played fine before.
It's unacceptable in my favourite (well used to be) video editing software,
Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus. This program also worked perfectly on Windows 98.
 
Youre hardware resources are fine for normal operation,however video as
with gaming draw large amounts of memory and other resources from the
board.512mb of ram is about min.,a 1.8 processor is at the very bottom as
far as intel goes,actually i think it is the slowest p4 mfg.Increasing ram
would
help,you dont mention display adapter,but 128mb of video ram on the card is
about min,increasing those and/or updating the processor will help alot.
 
I've got an ATI Radeon 9200 128mb graphics card, an AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.8GHz
processor and big games like GTA San Andreas and Half Life 2 run really
smoothly. Could the video playback problem be to do with codecs?
 
Brandon said:
I've got an ATI Radeon 9200 128mb graphics card, an AMD Sempron 2600
1.8GHz
processor and big games like GTA San Andreas and Half Life 2 ru
really
smoothly. Could the video playback problem be to do with codecs?
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Hi there, you are right, it could be a codec issue.

I have had the same problem on my machine, bear in mind i have a 256m
X600 graphics, 1gb ram and a 3.2ghz p4. But, I have successfull
played video on machines much less complemented than my current model


Firstly, download another video playback program, divx, quick time etc
see if that helps, (but you want media player to work properly i hea
you say!! )

This worked for me, download FFDSHOW - type it into google or use thi
link

ffdshow.sourceforge.net

Install this, (this is a codec package) and it should work fine !
 
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