I searched but I didn't see it. But I am guessing my problem is very, very common. I got myself an AVI file from an unknown source, so maybe the cause is right there. Playback is good in all respects except for an obvious hesitancy, or tendency to lag, every several seconds. People walking, cars driving, even the Universal studios logo moving—all like a subdued foxtrot: go, go, go, hesitate. I would think it was a RAM problem, but I doubt it's mine. I have a gig of RAM and a Radeon 9600XT 256 MB video card. So would the original AVI have the lag integrated in it? I don't pretend to know what I'm doing, but I was using WMP 9 and an old Cyberlink 4. I decided to load on all the heavy-duty stuff, so I put on Nero and the newest ATI Catalyst driver (which caused me to also put on .NET Framework 3). Some very big stuff there, heavy on the hype. The strangest thing I did was to attempt to use Nero Vision to convert the AVI to a DVD. Okay, sheer ignorance. Worse, being used to data copy and ISOs, I did a x12 conversion, which went right into an operation of some 3 1/2 hours for my movie. I ended up with a series of VOB files, courtesy of Nero. I guess I had just pressed the buttons too enthusiastically. When in doubt, press a button. When clueless, press two. Anyway, these files do give me my show on a CD, but, now playing it with Nero, everything the latest and the most bloated possible—it's go, go, go, hesitate. Exactly the same as it was in the first place. There is no easy fluid motion like water. My apologies if you've heard this hundreds of times. I sort of hope you have. I eagerly await your verdict—and as soon as I get it, off comes all the bloat (unless you tell me not to). I'm still lost, but my guess is the original AVI contained the lagging effect, and the best copy in the world will still just duplicate it. Or in fact could it be in my own system? Thanks lots.
I read your post and it sounds simply like a matter of crap in crap out. The problem does seem to be in your original avi. Now this may not be the case if you can answer 1 or 2 questions... Does this same file do it on other computers? Burn it off and try it on another computer to test that. Do other AVI files (all others) do this on your computer? If this is the only file that does it or if it does it on other computers then it's a bad file. If other AVI files on your computer do it or it works on someone elses computer then it's probably a codec problem. If it's a bad file you may be able to repair the avi table or re-encode the file to a different format and fix it, but you'll probably not be able to. If it's another issue (i.e. your computer or a codec issue) then you should be able to find out the problem and fix it. Let me know, and I'll see what else I can do to help.
