shawn wrote:
Michel wrote:


Greetings!

When I watch a movie from my DVD player or from a downloaded film
playing off the HD, there is a "flicker", a "stutter" (???..) every
second, as if a frame was missing. I had this problem about a year ago
and managed to find a cure, which I have now totally forgotten. How did
I do it then????
Does this ring a bell with any of you?
K7S5A motherboard, GeForce2 MX400 (driver 5.2.1.6), Athlon XP2100,
512Megs Ram, Win2K sp4, monitor refresh 60hz
I make a point of updating the whole system regularly.

Thanks for any insight! :-)



Did you happen to install the RC1 version of Xvid recently? If so then
there are a couple of things you can do. Turn off overlay mode in your
player (if using it), upgrade to Release Candidate 2 of Xvid, and turn
off generic MPEg-4 playback in the DiVX configuration screen.

I had not installed Xvid, but now I have the RC2 as you recommended.
No effect.
I'm not entirely sure what Xvid does. I play DVDs with my Sony player
using PowerDVD 4.
AVIs/MPGs (downloaded) are played with WMP 9 (or 7.1).
I even tried playing them through Winamp 2.95 as well, to no effect: the
image still "jumps" one frame every second (it looks that way, I can't
describe it any better!) regardless of source or player!
After posting the original message, I went out and bought a nVidia
GeForce FX 5200 (before reading many of the negative comments here,
unfortunately!!). It installed fine, driver is 5.2.1.6
I have tried downloading 5.3.0.3, but can't connect right now.
The problem remains unchanged!!!!! :-(

Thanks for helping, Shawn! Any new suggestions? :-)