Media Playback Prob

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DraizeTrain

DraizeTrain

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Suddenly all my media players have fucked up and dont seem to be able to play anything continously....its all stop, start, stop, start. Ive opened the task manager and CPU usage of the players is spiking up to 100% which is when the `silences' occur.

Anybody have a clue whats going on and any possible fixes? Bastard thing worked fine last week...
 
maybe something has messed up your codecs, tried reinstalling them? i had that with the divx anti-freeze thing.. i wonder why they called it like that, maybe because if you dont install it then it doesnt freeze :rolleyes:
 
Ok ive installed the Nimo codecs and still the same :S...the fuck up coincides with the installation of 2 work related programs i installed last week (AutoCAD2002 + 3Dplus) altho ive no idea why they would affect media players playback. I'll try defraging but tbh i dont think thats going to work either...cheers for the suggestions tho guys.

Any more ideas for me 2 try cos i havent got a fuckin' clue what 2 do now?
 
I found a helpful little thing from DivX which opens in your system tray whenever you open a media file, then closes when the media file does. It's called DivXG400 and seems to sort out any vid clip to be perfectly playable (I was having problems with videos being played upside down and weird stuff). I wouldn't install the Nimo codec pack if I was you - some of the codecs in it are dodgy half-arsed versions of the real ones. You're better just installing a Divx pack which also plays 3ivx and Xvid clips, and any clips that won't play can be converted to better codecs using Virtual Dub (which also tells you the codec each clip uses and lets you switch it to any other). Dunno if anyone else here uses Virtual Dub but imo it's the single most useful program around for movies. And it's completely free and can do everything lol.
 
I got rid of those "codec packs" a long time ago. They do more harm then they are usefull imo.

Since I rarely do encoding my media playback system consists of :
- ffdshow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow) for playback of the most common codecs (divx3,4,5, xvid, etc.etc.)
- xvid (http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml) for the occasional encoding
- used audio codecs (ogg, mp3, ac3)

all of those downloaded and installed independently and played back through
Media Player Classic (http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml) which is a very small and for me perfectly suited media player. It incorporates a lot of the author's other projects like an avi-splitter which allowes you to watch incomplete files and other usefull stuff like playing back quicktime and real media when the codecs installed have been installed.

In general I'd advise anybody to read this article :
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
which should result in a flawless media playback on every occasion.
 
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