Let’s get the system covered:
W2K Pro with sp3 installed
512MB RAM
GeForce3 Ti200 128MB DDR
Now the problem:
All my mpgs are choppy when viewed full screen using any player.
None of my .div or .avi movies work in DivX player. I get an error saying
(!) Failed to open E:/movies/The Never Ending Story [divx].avi
Yes they are / and not \ in this error message. I’ve tried uninstalling the codec and player and reinstalling but nothing is working. Anyone got some insights?
oh yeah, my cpu is AMD 1.2 GHz Duron
Choppiness usually means the machine has too many backround tasks. Kill everything in your system tray that you can and try again.
This stinks out loud. Nothing is in the systry. SETI is gone, Norton is gone, AIM is gone, even the volume is gone (but i’m not sure how I did that). Windows task manager says CPU usage is 1-3% at the most. Under Advanced tab for System Properties (R-click on My computer) Perfomance options is set for applications. I even tried it on Background services–no difference.
Stupid machines. . .
Also check out task manager (CTRl-ALT-DEL) to see what might be running that perhaps didn’t show up in the system tray.
All the other processes can’t be ended b/c I get “access denied” messages. I wonder if DirectX has something to do with it? I ran dxdiag and under Display tab it says:
DirectDraw Acceleration Not Available
Direct3d Acceleration Enable *i tried testing this and it says i don’t have enough memory, wtf?
AGP Texture Acceleration Not Available
This is really screwy. Do you have problems running any other memory-intensive applications, like games or graphics programs? Is the hard disk being accessed a lot (indicating heavy swap file use)?
If it was me, I’d probably reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.
I never have any problems running anything. MPEGs run fine, they just don’t do well in full screen. I’ve reinstalled DX, NVidia drivers, divx, winamp3, bsplayer and still the same problem with all of them!
I’ve never managed to get DivX movies to work consistently (including sound) with any program except this one.
Muldoon, I don’t use Windows 2000, and this is just a wild-assed guess, but is there a setting that corresponds to the Hardware Acceleration slider in the control panel --> display --> advanced settings of W98?
divxpro bundle is what you need muldoon. It works great, only problem is when you forward a file with imporperly interleaved audio and video the audio skips ahead. However, Global Divx player automaticaly corrects this, so i recomend installing the codec from dixpro and then Global Divx. Just search for any of these and your engine will come up with a link for download.
It sounds like you have some seriously busted system binaries or incipient disk corruption the system is having to handle on on the fly . There is nothing you can really do but re-install fresh. Double check the integrity of the hard drive. Your video should rock even with several background tasks. The only other thing that could really screw you up is if you have Kazaa or some other resource hog loaded in the background or your video did not install right and is running in crippled mode.
This is definately a driver or windows system component failure. I’ve had this problem occur on old windows installs, the only fix was a format and reinstall. Sorry man.
Reinstalled w2k and formatted beforehand. Everything works. But now Norton 2002 won’t load to save my life! Oh well, i’ll just get 2003 in a cuople months.
You may need an updated codex. I was having major problems with one of my RM movies today(just sound, no picture), until I realized that when I re-installed programs to factory condition that I forgot to reinstall codex 4. Once I did it worked fine again. I’m sure if you did a google search you could find a site offering downloads for codexes.