During any video sequences such as ingame movies, DivX quality full length movies, and even small clips I am having a strange and very annoying problem. Every few seconds (between 10 and 20) the video freezes and the sound goes out, only to correct itself some seconds later. I am thinking it is a video codec problem and hope some of you could enlighten me as to how to aid this situation.
I just reformatting my computer, not long ago, and install the full KLite codec pack. I haven't noticed this problem until recently but that could be because I haven't really watched too many movies since then. If I can solve this mystery, everything will be back to normal on this POS.
Side note: I really noticed it as I was installing and uninstalling new video cards. Could be unrelated, but that may be valuable information. For those of you who were wondering, I did solve that problem with the ATI 9800SE card -- I took it back to the store and bought a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. While having some unrelated driver trouble (until I updated the drivers anyway), this card is excellent.
I am going to try and uninstall all of the video codecs from that pack and reinstall some (not the whole thing this time). In the mean time, I will check back here to see if anyone has any important info to share. Thanks all for any help that can be provided !!
System specs:
Windows 2000 pro
GeForce FX video card
Latest Windows critical updates
Let me know if you need anymore information, I always leave something out.
“Workingmen of Europe feel sure as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes.” - Karl Marx
Well.... I am starting to wonder if this is just limited to video, because it appears not. During games themselves, and other things, there is a momentary blip of no motion and then it continues on.
This started started happening at about the same time I moved out of my house. Could my computer be acting this way because something not noticable right away be jarred loose ? Could it be because my computer was in the cold for a small amount of time while being moved from place to place ?
Hardware whizes and computer geeks alike, unite to help me figure out what I fucked up !
“Workingmen of Europe feel sure as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes.” - Karl Marx
I believe from what you have told me that the problem is not software related but hardware related that somewhere along the move the video card in this case was hit jarred or physically dued a blowed causing some sort of damage the card or maybe even to the agp slot itself (even worse). I would check the card out and if not the card check out the slot use trial and error plug in another card if it works you'tre vid card is the problem, if niether of the cards are functioning properly then there is a problem with the slot on the board. Hope this helps ya.
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like honestly, who does that?!?!
well before you automatically assume its a hardware problem, you might want to try some software fixes:
scan for viruses (im sure youve concidered this already, but just incase you hadn't)
ffdshow (wouldnt explain the video game though)
latest version of GFX card drivers and directX
intel's application accelerator (if you have an intel chip)
latest drivers for all the rest of your hardware, like chipset, etc
make sure your GFX card didnt somehow get underclocked
could there be too many processes running?
application thread priority?
i cant think of anything else...
hope you figure it out.
No actually I was completely off, and my friend (who just so happens to be very good with computers) made me realize that when he showed me the REAL problem.
SOMETHING was making my cpu usage spike to an extreme amount every few seconds. It was coming from services.exe but that still didn't give me any real idea of why. I spent the next 5 hours trying to figure out what was making it do that to no avail. I then did some research with my OTHER friend (google.com) and came up with the answer.
For some reason my hosts file, which had a very large amount of entries, was behind the problem. Since I have a pop up blocker now (besides the fact that I usually don't go to sites that throw alot of shit at you) I deleted the entries and POOF! The spiking was gone.
I will supply the appropriate link to the solution when I get home.
Oh and this is what my problem looked like if you are curious -> http://moonman.p2pchat.net/wtf1.gif
“Workingmen of Europe feel sure as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes.” - Karl Marx
“Workingmen of Europe feel sure as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes.” - Karl Marx
Try another codec pack...the best around is the ACE Meg CoDecS Pack Professional Edition contains all know CoDecS, lot of useful utilitieS and the QuickTime & RealMedia AddOn Package.
get it @ http://ace.subpage.net/
.............. did you read anything past the first post ?
“Workingmen of Europe feel sure as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes.” - Karl Marx
why moonman! that would be too much to ask! how dare you!
Ok' i have read the whole post as i was having a very similar problem but without a usage spike, so i decided to upgrade to the latest k-lite codec pack then using the media player i usually use (WMP9) i opened the xvid files again, still having the jitter problems. At that point i was getting ready to give up and say that the file didnt encode properly when i made it. then i realized that the codec pack added bs player to my pc (praise the Lord) because when i opened the movie in BS player it froze for a moment to begin the file but after that it was as smooth as one could want.
(i thought i would add this to the thread so if people search before they ask it may be able to stop them from posting on something already fixed)
Alright I'm having a similar problem but not that specific one apparently. Here's what happens, I just restored my laptop to factory defaults, downloaded a few shows off the net and tried watching them. I got through about 6-7 of them just fine, however on the next episodes at random intervals my video would freeze, audio still playing. I could cancel out of WMP and then skip that interval that it crashed and it would play, however it would stop again like 2-3 minutes later. When I went back to play the previous episodes to see if it was just a corrupted file, I experienced the same problems. I've reinstalled codecs, used different Media Players and the problem is recurring. Can anyone help?
Did you try updating your video drivers and direct x?
Anyone upset or offended by my post please follow the link and let your opinions be known.
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=55492
What OS?
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Windows XP, it's on a 3 year old Lenovo T60. Yes I ran updates on system and all my device drivers/video drivers. I have update Direct X as well. Also I made a mistake on my problem, both audio and video freeze however it shows that the video is still playing, in other words the timer is still going on below the progress bar.
I thought I knew a bit about pooters, this has just ended about 3 months of head scratching. Same problem was causing random crashes with CPU spike and I could not work out what was doing itOriginally Posted by MoonMan
Cheers MoonMan :icon_thum
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