video lagging

[wuya]

When I play video, it lags every 2 seconds. It plays, pauses in the frame for a while, and then skips back to the proper frame. The sound is fine, it's just the video that is skipping. This is affecting almost all the video files I played.

How do I fix this?

[edDV]

Playing what kind on video on what device with what application?

Either decoding is not keeping up or the file has faults.

[SLK001]

I sounds like your system is not up to the task. I say this without any useful knowledge of your system, because, as you know, you haven't bothered to fill in your COMPUTER DETAILS. What OS are you running, DOS?

[wuya]

Windows 2000 Pro, 1.6GHz CPU, 128 DDR RAM, KM400-M2 AVL, Media Player Classic.

Mentioned earlier, it affects almost all videos. Therefore, DIVX, MPG, ASF, WMV, whatever you can think of.

[edDV]

Windows 2000 Pro, 1.6GHz CPU, 128 DDR RAM, KM400-M2 AVL, Media Player Classic.

Mentioned earlier, it affects almost all videos. Therefore, DIVX, MPG, ASF, WMV, whatever you can think of.

1.6GHz CPU should be enough for most.
Problem is your particular configuration. Maybe time for reformat and reinstall.

[waheed]

I would say its software related. My friend has a 1.5GGHz CPU, Win XP Pro, 128 Ram and plays videos fine of his PC.

If you have too many codecs installed, that could also be causing the problem.

[wuya]

WTF? Reformat? I just reformated 2 weeks ago. And I have installed about 7 programmes. And they are small programmes (15MB or less each).

If it is a codec problem. And I should uninstall it all. Which codec bundle should I install then?

I cannot bear the lag. I am only watching a few frames per second.

[edDV]

My last advice to you.
ID your video formats down to the codec and players you are using. You seem to think we are logged on to your machine. We are not.

[wuya]

My last advice to you.
ID your video formats down to the codec and players you are using. You seem to think we are logged on to your machine. We are not.

I already have. Read above again. You just been ignoring my answers.

The player is Media Player Classic. And the formats affected are almost all, if not all. DIVX, MPG, ASF, WMV, everything else. ANYTHING I play lags.

[waheed]

Provide a list of all the codecs you have installed. Even try an alternative player like VLC

[wuya]

Initially, just Divx 6 or whatever is the lastest version and another bundle pack I don't recall the name of. Now nothing. I have uninstalled everything because someone mentioned it might be a codec problem. So I been waiting for someone to suggest me a good codec bundle to download with all the common codecs I might need.

[edDV]

I agree VLC is a good starting point.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

If you can't get that to work, I'm out of ideas other than reformat reinstall.

[wuya]

VLC worked! Thanks everyone. Especially Waheed.