xvid playback problems

[mercuryrsng]

Hello all!!!

I am having a problem.

I am trying to play a xvid avi file on my laptop. It was working fine but I reformatted, and now the video is running slower than the audio.

I have installed the xvid and the divx codecs, as well as the ac3 and the ffdshow filters. The specs of the laptop are Win ME, AMD K-6 III Processor, and 256 mb ram. I have currently the max video ram set, at 8mb. I know it seems low, but the video was working fine for the exact same xvid video I am trying to play before my format. Any Ideas?

[mercuryrsng]

I think I may have figured it out. On a hunch, I installed divx 3.11, which is the old codec. I believe that worked. Does anyone know why that works and it is not included in the new divx on www.divx.com ?

[redwudz]

What program are you using to play the video? I use VLC media player which doesn't need external codecs, and Zoom player when I have the right codecs installed. XVID and DIVX seem to have problems when the codecs get messed up.

Seems to me the XVID and DIVX codecs and FFD Show may be redundant. Anyway, try VLC Media Player and see if that improves the problem.

[junkmalle]

divx 3.11 was stolen from microsoft. That's why Divx.com doesn't offer it anymore.

[mercuryrsng]

Thanks for the divx info, but since I installed the vlc player, the playback is actually much slower. I ran G-Spot and everything is installed properly. Now what do I do?

[mercuryrsng]

Update : It seems that it is only xvid that I am having a problem with. Divx 3.11 encoded files seem to play fine....

[junkmalle]

Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot. Make sure Hardware Acceleration is at max. If you see Enable Write Combining make sure it's checked.

[mercuryrsng]

Hardware acceleration is set at max, and there is no enable write combining

[junkmalle]

Try removing Divx and ffdshow?

[mercuryrsng]

No I did not try removing anything. Which divx should I remove. the 5.2 or the 3.11?

and I think I removed ffdshow earlier

[junkmalle]

You need to isolate the problem. Remove as much as you can and see if the situation improves. If it does, then add the other things you need one at a time and see if any of them causes the problem.

When you say the video is running slower than the audio do you mean that the video lags behind the audio? Does the lag get greater the longer the video plays? Or is the lag constant, say always 1 second behind?

[mercuryrsng]

I did that. Actually I started installing the codecs one by one, and that is when the problem started, once I got in the xvid codec. The audio is always about 1 second behind, and every 10 seconds or so, the audio and the video catch up with each other, and then it looses it again. It seems like the video is actually moving in slow motion.

[junkmalle]

Does the problem happen with all XVID files or just one in particular?

You might try a fourcc changer to change the fourcc code to DIVX (DX50) instead of XVID.

Otherwise it sounds like you've tried everything I can think of.

[mercuryrsng]

Yes it is basically all xvids.....I will prob give up on this one, even tho I know it is not the answer....why do they make it so damn difficult?