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strange problem with DivX and Geforce FX 5200
Hello!
I'm having a strange problem with playing Divx-Movies. After starting my computer I can play a divx-movie in my media player without any problems, I even can skip around in it, but after starting a seccond video, e.g. from the playlist or just by drag n drop, about the first seccond of this video plays fine, than it starts to stutter really hard and the CPU usage goes up to 100%. The only thing I found out, is if I switch off the "use overlay" in the performance tab of the Windows Media Player options, the same happens, except the video is getting all green after the seccond playing fine. Switching off video mixing rendering didn't change anything too. This problem is not just happining in the Windows Media Player, but in all other players I tried it too. Is perhaps my graphic card some how failing and I have to send it back or is this still an software issue? Here are my system details: AMD 64 3000+ Windows XP Prof. SP1 DivX 5.2.1 Geforce FX 5200 NVidia driver v.6221 (but tried some other versions [newer and older] too) Thanks for any help!!!!!!!!!!! Maik |
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Your low-end video card is NOT capable of playing two movies simultaneously
(if that's what you were asking.) It's an underpowered card and is straining to play ONE movie at a time. Seriously. -- DaveW "Maik Wiege" wrote in message ... Hello! I'm having a strange problem with playing Divx-Movies. After starting my computer I can play a divx-movie in my media player without any problems, I even can skip around in it, but after starting a seccond video, e.g. from the playlist or just by drag n drop, about the first seccond of this video plays fine, than it starts to stutter really hard and the CPU usage goes up to 100%. The only thing I found out, is if I switch off the "use overlay" in the performance tab of the Windows Media Player options, the same happens, except the video is getting all green after the seccond playing fine. Switching off video mixing rendering didn't change anything too. This problem is not just happining in the Windows Media Player, but in all other players I tried it too. Is perhaps my graphic card some how failing and I have to send it back or is this still an software issue? Here are my system details: AMD 64 3000+ Windows XP Prof. SP1 DivX 5.2.1 Geforce FX 5200 NVidia driver v.6221 (but tried some other versions [newer and older] too) Thanks for any help!!!!!!!!!!! Maik |
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No that was not what I meant. I don't want to play two movies at the same
time, but after another. After for example the first movie finishes and the next video in the playlist will be opened, the problems appear!! As I said: very strange... ;-( Thanks for your reply anyway. Maik "DaveW" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Your low-end video card is NOT capable of playing two movies simultaneously (if that's what you were asking.) It's an underpowered card and is straining to play ONE movie at a time. Seriously. -- DaveW "Maik Wiege" wrote in message ... Hello! I'm having a strange problem with playing Divx-Movies. After starting my computer I can play a divx-movie in my media player without any problems, I even can skip around in it, but after starting a seccond video, e.g. from the playlist or just by drag n drop, about the first seccond of this video plays fine, than it starts to stutter really hard and the CPU usage goes up to 100%. The only thing I found out, is if I switch off the "use overlay" in the performance tab of the Windows Media Player options, the same happens, except the video is getting all green after the seccond playing fine. Switching off video mixing rendering didn't change anything too. This problem is not just happining in the Windows Media Player, but in all other players I tried it too. Is perhaps my graphic card some how failing and I have to send it back or is this still an software issue? Here are my system details: AMD 64 3000+ Windows XP Prof. SP1 DivX 5.2.1 Geforce FX 5200 NVidia driver v.6221 (but tried some other versions [newer and older] too) Thanks for any help!!!!!!!!!!! Maik |
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Maik Wiege wrote:
Hello! I'm having a strange problem with playing Divx-Movies. After starting my computer I can play a divx-movie in my media player without any problems, I even can skip around in it, but after starting a seccond video, e.g. from the playlist or just by drag n drop, about the first seccond of this video plays fine, than it starts to stutter really hard and the CPU usage goes up to 100%. The only thing I found out, is if I switch off the "use overlay" in the performance tab of the Windows Media Player options, the same happens, except the video is getting all green after the seccond playing fine. Switching off video mixing rendering didn't change anything too. This problem is not just happining in the Windows Media Player, but in all other players I tried it too. Is perhaps my graphic card some how failing and I have to send it back or is this still an software issue? Here are my system details: AMD 64 3000+ Windows XP Prof. SP1 DivX 5.2.1 Geforce FX 5200 NVidia driver v.6221 (but tried some other versions [newer and older] too) Thanks for any help!!!!!!!!!!! Maik I had stuttering issues with video playback when my sound drivers were corrupt. I had just installed a new soundcard without removing da existing drivers. An upgrade from a Live 5.1 to an Audigy. Uninstalling sound all sound drivers for both cards rebooting, and then installing da sound drivers fixed it. |
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I was having the exact same problem, while coming across your post. I
found a suggestion somewhere to try BSPlayer at http://www.bsplayer.org It seems to work fine for me. Not the ultimate solution though, b/c I would kind of like to know why it's not working in a lot of the other video viewing application. But at least I can now view the videos. Hope this helps dustin |
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I am so glad I found someone who has experienced THE EXACT same problem
I have. My system: new laptop, Acer Aspire 1360 AMD Sempron 3000+ processor 512MB RAM nVidia GeForce 5200 (mobile version) Windows XP Home SP2 (all critical updates installed) Windows Media Player 10 (all updates installed) DixX codec 5.2.1 To recap:- The problem is playing AVI files encoded with DivX (it may also occur with Xvid but I haven't been able to confirm this). On first booting, I can play a Divx AVI in WMP 10 perfectly. It can be played full screen and seems completely smooth. Looking at the CPU usage in Task Manager, it appears to be using approximately 50% of CPU. The problem occurs when trying to play another subsequent AVI video file. What happens then is as Maik described in his original post; the first 1 - 2 seconds play smoothly then it all grinds to a very slow pace. The sound continues OK, but the picture is updated about 1 frame per second. The Task Manager performance tab shows that now the CPU is right up to 100% "flatlining" along the top of the graph. No wonder the playback is so slow. Looking closer, the processes show that explorer.exe seems to be taking up about 50% of the CPU and wmplayer.exe seems to be taking the other 50% Even trying to play the same file that played OK originally after the computer has started doing this, is met with the same result. The only thing I can add to what has been posted above is I have a couple of files which seem to somehow "trigger" the bad behaviour of WMP. If I choose to play one of these files as the first one after a reboot, it immediatly goes into "slow" mode. If any one has any useful hints or suggestions they would be most welcome! |
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Looking closer, the processes show that explorer.exe seems to be taking
up about 50% of the CPU and wmplayer.exe seems to be taking the other 50% Even trying to play the same file that played OK originally after the computer has started doing this, is met with the same result. The only thing I can add to what has been posted above is I have a couple of files which seem to somehow "trigger" the bad behaviour of WMP. If I choose to play one of these files as the first one after a reboot, it immediatly goes into "slow" mode. If any one has any useful hints or suggestions they would be most welcome! I use WM player 6.4 for all my Xvid films, and DivX player for DivX - mostly because you can directly access the codec properties from these players (to change quality settings etc) However the problem you are getting is, I believe, caused by explorer.exe trying to put a little thumbnail picture of your film in the folder it's located in - seems to be a little incompatibility with this feature and DivX - I have expericenced it myself, usually resulting in an error and explorer having to close & re-start. The solution for me was to right-click on the folder holding the films, select properties, and on the 'customize' tab where it asks use this folder type as a template: select documents - this will stop explorer trying to put stills from the film instead of an icon... HTH Graham |
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Graham,
thanks for your thoughts. I tried your suggestion but unfortunately with no improvement. I thought it sounded a bit unlikely but was worth a shot! I think the problem that you had described was a little different from mine - WMP never actually crashes or gives an error message... it just starts to run very slowly after playing one time OK. As a correction to my previous post - I now do not think that there are any particular files that "trigger" the fault. I think I just got fooled when I was trying various permutations to see if I could isolate the fault. I am now wondering whether it is a specific problem with version 10 of WMP. My laptop shipped with version 9 and I don't seem to recall this problem existing when I first got it. However I upgraded to ver 10 quite soon after I got it so I can't be absolutely sure about that. Alan |
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Well I haven't yet discovered the cause of this problem, but I have
discovered a workaround. Maybe someone else can use this info to diagnose what the underlying problem is. Solution: open WMP 10 and attempt to play DivX file. If this is the second or later attempt at playing such a file, you may encounter the slow playback I descibed previously. Stop the playback, but keep WMP open. Open another media player (I have tried Real Player, and also "Arcade" that comes pre-installed on my Acer laptop) and try and play another DivX file. Stop this playback and while leaving the second media player open (but not playing) go back to WMP. You should now find that playing any other DivX files in WMP works normally. I know this sounds like voodoo rather than science, but it seems that by having a second media player open, it somehow attracts the problem away from WMP. Someone who can actually figure out what is going on will probably have a good laugh at my description, but at least I figured out how to get around it! |
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I am having the exact same problem.
AMD 64 3000+ 1.25GB RAM 1 TB HD Space GeForce FX 5200 Play the first movie - fine Click another movie in same player - plays 2-3 secs then audio continues while video slows down. Work around that used to work for me was to CTL-ALT-DEL to task manager, then minimize task manager and movie would play but again this is voodoo and not a real solution. Any help would be great. Thanks |
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