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FooB2
Caldari Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.11.06 21:45:00 -
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so im having this rather strange problem with my PC. now im good at these things and i sort all my problems out, and many other peoples too, but this one im actually just too lazy to figure out, and i dont know too much about the subject anyway. so here goes.
a simple description really... i try to start up a video. an .avi or an .mpg whatever, and if i start it in WMP or VLC, the program runs at a snails pace, and the PC along with it. to the point it takes a right-click menu about 60 seconds to start appearing, and about 6 seconds to get through the actual fade animation. if i try to play the video in Winamp, i can hear the sound track fine, and the video screen resizes to the correct size, but i get black and the PC slows down a bit, but not much. enough to easily be able to close winamp and end it. now heres the kicker. like i said, i simply am too lazy to figure it out, and i formatted completely just to get rid of it, and it didnt fix it. ive just came back onto windows now and its acting the exact same way. all i have installed since is the latest nVidia drivers, DX 9.0c and the latest XviD codec (although, it acts the same way ebfore the xvid codec is installed). i thought it was a nvidia driver problem, but ive tried a bunch of different ones and zip.
any ideas?
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Dark Shikari
Caldari Imperium Technologies Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2006.11.06 21:57:00 -
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Just install the CCCP.
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FooB2
Caldari Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.11.06 22:13:00 -
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didnt work. and neither did tryiong about twelve different driver versions. music works fine however. just video screws me up royally.
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William Blight
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Posted - 2006.11.06 22:21:00 -
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Try installing the ffdshow codecs. They've always worked for me.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari Imperium Technologies Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2006.11.06 22:26:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 06/11/2006 22:38:08
Originally by: William Blight
Try installing the ffdshow codecs. They've always worked for me.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53761
The CCCP above includes the latest version of FFDshow. The release you've linked to on Sourceforge is over 4 years out of date... and even the alpha version is from 2004.
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Frank Horrigan
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Posted - 2006.11.06 22:26:00 -
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reformatings fun..
I have to reformat mine tonight.. *sigh*
Wish me luck.
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William Blight
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Posted - 2006.11.06 22:32:00 -
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sry about that, trusted google too much on that one
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Gun Kata
F.R.E.E. Explorer EVE Animal Control
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Posted - 2006.11.07 14:00:00 -
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Edited by: Gun Kata on 07/11/2006 14:01:04 Does your cpu run at 100% as well when the video is run?
edit: what video card?
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FooB2
Caldari Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.11.07 14:17:00 -
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nVidia GeForce 6600 AGP.
and it probably does do 100% cpu usage but im not gonna test it because i dont particularly fancy restarting again. and its not like i can wait half an hour for the task manager to appear and tell me.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari Imperium Technologies Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2006.11.07 14:31:00 -
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Originally by: FooB2 nVidia GeForce 6600 AGP.
and it probably does do 100% cpu usage but im not gonna test it because i dont particularly fancy restarting again. and its not like i can wait half an hour for the task manager to appear and tell me.
Solution: Run the program at Idle priority...
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FooB2
Caldari Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.11.07 19:00:00 -
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FooB2
Caldari Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.11.07 23:18:00 -
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Edited by: FooB2 on 07/11/2006 23:22:43 right. heres the deal.
ive just done a trial and error format, and ive determined where the problem lies (probably) but there still the issue on how to fix it.
1) i formatted. ran a video. no picture or sound. but no screwups 2) installed sound drivers, sound track but no video. no screwups. 3) installed nvidia drivers. as above. 4) installed DirectX 9.0c via dx webupdate. no screwups. 5) installed CCCP pack. the same screwup occured. CPU usage constantly 100%, had to reboot. 6) uninstalled CCCP, rebooted, sound track but no video. no screwups 7) posted here.
now, this is the first time i was using CCCP, before i was just installing the base XviD codec from the XviD site. Therefore i believe the problem exists in something to do with not only a codec, but the XviD codec.
any suggestions on what to do now?
*EDIT* installed the base XviD codec, no CCCP. everything went screwy again. uninstalled it. back to the no video thing. so its definatley a problem with the XviD codec.
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KingsGambit
Caldari Knights
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Posted - 2006.11.08 11:32:00 -
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Edited by: KingsGambit on 08/11/2006 11:39:32 It sounds similar to a problem I've had in the past when a video just misbehaves like that. Assuming you can play other video files just fine, the problem lies with the video file you can't play, not with the machine, Windows or your codecs. A potential solution is to re-encode the video, and a simple way to do that is:
- Use G-Spot to tell you the codec & bitrate of the video. Download and install VirtualDub - Using VDub, open the offending avi file and try either: - Export the video with a new name using the same codec, bitrate (which you got from G-Spot above) & the video itself as an audio source. OR - Export the sound to a .wav file somewhere on your hard disk. Now export the video to a new file with the same codec & bitrate, but use the previously exported wav file for your sound source (You can re-encode the audio to something more space-efficient like 128kbps MP3 or OGG).
The most common reasons for this is that there's some kind of corruption to the file. In the first export scenario above, it should fix any problems with the "header" information in the avi file Windows uses to know how to play a video back. The second is if the problem is with the audio/video. Problem with this one is that while you might fix the video playback, the audio could be out of synch in the new file, so you may need to tweak it a bit, adjust the offset in VDub and save it again. It doesn't take that long and should fix the video. -------------
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FooB2
Caldari Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.11.08 12:00:00 -
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not the case. it is every and any video i try to play, when ANY codec is installed, even if the video doesnt use it. wmpenc9 was installed and the xvid movies screw it up, even without xvid installed. |
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