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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on May 10, 2003, 03:35:17 am

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 10, 2003, 03:35:17 am

I've noticed my computer has a tendency to play large movies (50+ MB with DivX) jerkily; the movie will play smoothly for a few seconds, then skip, then play smoothly some more. Anyone have any ideas on how to get them to play more smoothly? Or is it more likely it's just the movies themselves?

Computer stats:
Video players: DivX "The playa", Windows Media Player 6.4, Irfanview
Dual Pentium III 733 mhz processors
256 MB RAM
Windows 2000
TNT2 M64 video card

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: J.F.K. on May 10, 2003, 03:41:20 am

Depending on the resolution of the video, shove down the res of your desktop so that your player doesn't need to resize upwards. Or, try using WMP to play the files... in my experience, the Playa can be quite jerky with files that WMP can handle with ease.

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: Razor on May 10, 2003, 03:48:35 am

Decrease the quality of a video in your DIVX Player 5.0 if you're using it. It should help. I have that lag too sometimes but I usually fix it that way and I don't really loose any quality. :)

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: Stealth on May 13, 2003, 04:38:29 pm

i'd say it's definately got to do with your video card memory or RAM.  then again, when it comes to this i don't have much experience.

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: ZylonBane on May 13, 2003, 04:42:15 pm

The usual suspects--

Background process hogging cycles and/or RAM
Fragmented hard drive
Broken video drivers
Disabled video acceleration
Disabled audio acceleration
Gremlins

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: Razor on May 13, 2003, 04:46:13 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ZylonBane
The usual suspects--

Gremlins

:doubt:

Eeeh..the topic. I don't know dude. Decrease your rezloution, shut down as many progs as possible, run in 16bit graphics or something. And don't run full screen.

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: Sandwich on May 14, 2003, 12:59:57 pm

In Windows Media Player, zoom to 50% and see if it still is jerky. If so, your video card isn''t able to keep up with the screen refreshings.

Title: Speeding up video playback
Post by: an0n on May 14, 2003, 01:09:33 pm

It might just be the ****-quality moviez you're downloading.

Sometimes the retards sacrifice flow and watchability for higher-quality images.

I've got a Farscape ep that has the best quality you could imagine on the frames. Only trouble is, there's a 1/4 second gap between frames and it'll run for 5 frames and then pause for 2.

Some people just don't know how to make DivX movies.