Divx Play slow

[commiewop]

i have a few divx movies, and until recently i was able to play of mine in wmp6, but the ones i got recently make me use wmp7 which i despise, so i was wondering what i needed to install to correct this, i read that it might be a problem with ac3 but i tried doing something with that and it didn't change anything...if that still is the case what should i install then?

thanks

[hoola_loop]

i may suggest using either bsplayer or *zoomplayer* for divx. it allows you to tweak all kind of settings as well as apect ratio, playlists, and all sorts. an imho files look better than with wmp

[commiewop]

tried Bsplayer, it kept crashing, and zoomplayer has the same slow video play...ummmyeah any other ideas?

[secretagent]

try ultraplayer

[commiewop]

and i might as well kill two bird with one stone here, i thought maybe i didn't install something from the nimo pack, well i must have selected something wrong cause now when i try to play those same movies all i get is a green screen...any help with that one?, and from what i can tell(when the screen wasn't green) it still seemed to play slow with ultraplayer....someone anyone....help...now with either question

thanks.....

[hoola_loop]

a green screen. humm do you have more than one version of divx installed. like 3.11 4.12 and 5.02? way back when i had 3.11 installed and installed 5.02 i got garbled/green screen because 3.11 and 5.02 were conflicting in some way. try to uninstall and reinstall a clean divx version . no warez. if that dont help then i really dont know sorry.

also if playing slow is the main thing try to bump the quality level bar down a notch or 2 in the decoder. this may help. if your files used to play fine and now they dont i woudl have to lean towards some sort of software conflict though.

[commiewop]

i think that may have fixed things with the green screen, i just did a basic nimo install and that was corrected...

now for the slow play, it isn't that movies that used to play don't anymore, it's newer movies don't play well...my old ones play fine, it's things encoded in xvid that have trouble...

[hoola_loop]

do you have the ffdshow filter installed? if the movies were encoded at large resolutions with enhancements such as b-frames-qpixels-psych enhancments. those things can really cause a movie to lag even on a high end system. if i encode a movie at 640 x 480 with b frames-psychs-qpixels it will run sluggish on my p4 1.6ghz unless i set quality in decoder down to lowest level and keep smooth playback and all shut off.

like i said if you are decoding xvid install ffdshow.
peace!

[commiewop]

i have ffdshow installed, i don't think it has anything to do with resolution or anything, cause what gets me is the fact it'll play in wmp7 fine, not problems with speed or anything, but if i use zoomplayer, or wmp6 or whatever, it'll play slow...so the question would be what internal decoder or whatever is wmp7 running to play xvid fine?

[hoola_loop]

it is probably using ffdshow. open zoomplayer and register ffdshow to the player and you should get good playback.

if that dont help download gspot... it will tell you all about the file you have and what you need to play it.
peace!

[hxc3634]

Commiewop,
You didn't say what cpu and ram you got. Divx requires heavy cpu loading. One of my pc has Pen III 500 and it play Divx slugish depending on divx movies. I recommend Swan player. It get small resource so good for old computers.

[commiewop]

p4 1.7ghz 712 sdram..

[Acefireball2003]

I downloaded Divx Player 2.0 Alpha off Kazaa and it plays all my Divx movies perfectly.

[commiewop]

ok so i used gpot to check the file and it's telling me i'm missing some iso/mpeg codec, when i run a google search it finds things that show skematics, or an audio box of some kind....