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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!

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