NTFS and playing divx

[DJHOUSE77]

I used to have no problems watching all types of divx movies
Then I got the BRILLIANT (sarcasm) idea to switch from FAT32 to NTFS
I re-formated my comp and re-installed all my progs and drivers and codecs and stuff....
For some reason, whenever I play any type of movie in WMP 6.4 or any other player for that matter, the video lags behind the audio
it's as if windows can't render fast enough

WHAT IS WRONG? what should I do?

BTW
P3 500 Mhz
32mb Riva Tnt2 m64
192 mb Ram
Windows XP Corp ed. SP1

[jarvis1781]

heh heh,

DJHOUSE77 if I read that right you have XP Corporate edition with Service pack 1?

did you have the usual CD key for that version and if so did you know that SP1 cripples your system with the "usual CD key" version of XP Corp edition

[twodogs]

DJHOUSE77

I've got a 450mhz NT4 Laptop which hates DivX (slow video).
I believe it is CPU speed which that causes the problem for me - I note you have 500mhz.
I have read in other forums that DivX requires CPU with grunt.

Try a different DivX player - ie. a player (supposedly) intentionally designed for DivX

Otherwise, convert to MPEG. That's what I do.

(I know this doesn't explain NTFS vs FAT32, by my 2c worth anyway)

[sterno]

NTFS has more overhead than FAT32, which is really a pretty simplistic filesystem. For normal use NTFS is usually a little faster in spite of this because it's more "intelligent" than FAT, but if you're playing the movie on a system that's kind of marginal for DivX anyway I suppose that it could be just enough to cause a problem.

[ChrisX]

I have a slow 380 Mhz Win98 computer having the same problem, the CPU as too slow. You have to download a more basic DivX player, "The Playa".

The NTFS file system isn't suitable on a slow CPU computer. I don't think your computer can handle the demands of WinXP Corp. Why is your computer using WinXP Corp and to convert it to NTFS on slow computer?

Anyway, you can get "The Playa" from www.divx.com, if this doesn't work revert you file system back to FAT32.

If you can afford it, get a better and faster computer.

[hoola_loop]

i would have to agree with these folks your pc is on the borderline where playing divx can bog it down. try going into the decoder properties and under post processing put the quality level all the way to min turn off any film effect. click on quality settings and uncheck everything. give bsplayer or zoomplayer a try. on a 500mhz if your trying to play anything over a res of 352 x 240 you may have probs. but i can get divx files at 512 x 384 to play on my fathers p3 450mhz fairly well with the settings stated above and zoomplayer and the screen res set to something like 640 x 480 32bit 85hrtz. good luck but i would suggest if your gonna use divx alot to upgrade to atleast a 1ghz. if i were you i would stay with ntfs and not revert back to fat anything. just my opinion. peace

oh yeah it also has to do alot with what settings was used when the film or whatever was encoded. if gmc and qpixels were used you may have major probs playing the file aswell these setting along with high post processing bog down even high end machines at higher res'.