Very strange AVI playback problem

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  1. gringer

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    Hey all,

    I really hope someone can help me with this one. I recently downloaded some episodes of Lost and Battlestar Galactica. They are AVIs. When I play them, in [bold]any[/bold] media player (well all the ones I've tried) I have the same problem.

    At first everything seems fine. After about, 10 seconds, it all goes pear shaped. Usually (depending on the player) there will be a freeze, then a sizable jump past that point (skipping many many frames). Now the weirdness happens. The frame from which the player first froze then bleeds into the frame it has skipped to. I can liken it to texture mapping a image onto a series of moving 3d objects. After about 5-10 seconds the normal frame display returns. This problem re-occurs more frequently after the initial time seemingly exponentially.

    I just can't seem to figure it out. I have used Gspot and it tells me everything is fine (Xvid codec). Just to be sure I download the latest Xvid codec I can find, no use. I unistall the K-lite codec pack. No avail.

    Other things I've read suggest that the files could be corrupt, but I'm not so sure about that. It seems much more like a playback problem.

    Can anyone shed some light on this?
     
  2. philraz

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    it sounds corrupt
    but the only but the only things i could suggest are
    program called avi fixed
    or use virtual dub to reencode it to an uncompresed avi or a divx if you dont have drive space for an uncompressed avi
     
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    I have exactly the same problem as gringer, i have tried atleast 10 avi's some of which have worked previously.

    The only difference is that I have recently re-installed on to a new hard drive, I must have missed something somewhere when re-installing.

    System: AMD 64 3500+, Asus A8V Deluxe, 2gb Crucial Balistix, ATI X800XL (Catalyst 6.2) Creative Audigy 4.
     
  4. gringer

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    Vindi,

    Your system is similar to mine. I'm running an AMD 64 3.2, ASUS K8n-e deluxe board, Audigy 2 zs, ASUS Geforce 6800 v9999gt 256mb, 1 gig corsaire high speed ram.

    I'm not sure but perhaps its the audigy software? Anyone know of creative drivers affecting playback?

    Also, it's a long shot, but I recently moved to Taiwan and the power here is a bit sketchy. The lights pulse often. I was wondering if power supply could be affecting this as well?

    Cheers.
     
  5. Vindi

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    its worth a try, i'm updating my drivers to see if it helps.

    *update*
    Updated to latest sound Drivers & chipset drivers, still no luck AVI's are still having playback issues.

    Other things I have tried:

    k-Lite Codec pack
    Gordian Knot codec pack
    Video LAN Player
     
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  6. Vindi

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    Just had something strange happen, Played an avi from my desktop and it stuttered.... Moved it to my RAID array and it played perfectly :/

    The system drive is a new 250GB Maxtor, now i'm confused.
     
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    I have a similar problem but when I play my lost file, it shows sound but not picture
     
  8. Vindi

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    that could be a codec problem, try installing a codec pack like k-lite or gordian knot.
     
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    k-lite cost money to download...
     
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