Bizarre freezing during xvid playback (1 Viewer)

[Laz]

I have this strange problem occuring when I play back xvid
files. It freezes for half a second and then for another half
second it fasts forward like it's trying to catch up the freezing
period...

I am using windows media player 10 and the machine is
a P4 3.2.

GSpot returns:
(S) -> AVI Splitter -> DivX Decoder filter -> (R)
(S) -> AVI Splitter -> MPEG Layer-3 Decoder -> AC3Filter->(R)

I amusing the divx decoder from divx.com

All xvid material is located on a file server (different machine).
The ethernet connection although is loaded it is not up to
its limits...

Has anyone come accross this problem before ?

Thanks,
Laz.

 

[Hildebrandt]

hmmm... I have something similar... Playing xvid movie, i occasionally see a slowdown of video - the audio continues unaffected....

Running athlon 64 3500+, 2gb ram, x1600 256 mb on clean install xp sp2 - svn from 12/6...

 

[Efros]

Yep seen that but not often enough to piss me off!

 

[alliantdevil]

Suggestions Please

I too have this issue. Tho the hardware I run MP on is not too impressive (P4 1.5Ghz, 1gb DDR333) i do not use the recording TV function. I maily use MP for playback of pre-recorded video in a format that makes it wasy for my girlfriend and parents to watch with ease.

If anyone has any suggestions please fill me in

 

[Callifo]

For the OP have you tried different codecs? Try Xvid and as a last resort FFDShow (Gasp).

alliantdevil: MP depends fairly highly on the video card as well, what are you using?

 

[alliantdevil]

Vid card is an ATi 9700 pro 128mb. I usually have both the GPU and Ramdac overclocked, I tried setting them back to default and still a no go. The freezing seems to be random, I can sometimes watch a full 2 hour video and no problem, other times after only 5 minutes it will freeze but the audio continues playing then the video goes into a "fast forward" (looks like a 3 stooges bit ) to catch up with the audio.