Choppy video playback

I have a dell inspiron 5100 with the radeon 7500 vid card. and all my divx movie's are choppy and the audio doesn't play in sync with the movie either? whats up with that I figured this laptop would be able to handle playing divx movies. I just bought this from a friend of mine.

 

If you run task manager during video playback (Ctr+Alt+Del), what's the reported CPU usage?

It could well be that the bitrate exceeds the video card and CPU's ability to decode in realtime. I have this problem playing certain files on my laptop that doesn't happen on my desktop system.

 

Yeah, for whatever reason it sounds like the machine is struggling to keep up with the decoding. Can you try doing a portion at lower settings to see how that works?

 

Well, I set back the settings on the vid card as far back as they can go, and still it is choppy. I tried reinstalling the drivers and that didn't work. I uninstalled my anti-virus in case that was making issues and still no go. I went into msconfig and unchecked everything for startup items and restarted and went and tried playing two different divx movies and both were choppy. I just don't get it i have a desktop with alot less than this laptop has and it plays everything just fine. I want this to work because it has a video out so I can connect it to my tv. It really sucks too cuz my connection download is at around 6 megs. So I can download movies in about an hour!

 

I do believe that piracy is not and never was an open discussion topic! You should buy the movie, not download it!!!!!

Reported post to a mod......

 

That's probably causing your problem. Illegal downloads are known to be horrible and have poor video quality.

[edit] budiswis3r pm me and explained the situation. He has a paid service to download movies. Unlocking thread...

SG

 

Bud,

What version of the DivX codec are you using? I have seen video playback problems with older/wrong codecs (XViD to play DivX files). Try clearing out the codecs in your system and just load up v6.0 from www.DivX.com as this codec will also play XViD encoded files. If that doesn't help, try disabling Film Effect & all extra processing in the DivX features.

-Vb-

 

I apologize to you budiswis3r for reporting you b/c i thought u were involved in piracy .
I would first try using a program called Gspot ( http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm) to find out what codec the file uses, and the download and install the codec for your file. an alternative is to download the K-lite Codec Pack, which will install any codec you will ever need. ( http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm)

have fun!

 

Actually, I've tried these Codec Packs and I have found that they messup my system and load a whole bunch of junk in it. Stuff that used to work before the install no longer work afterwards.

I would recommend only installing the needed codecs and nothing more. These packs install aprox a dozen or more codecs which is totally not needed. GSpot is a good utility to tell you what codec it is, but generally, if it's an AVI these days, it's usually a DivX or XViD compressed file. The DivX 6.0 codec will decode both DivX & XViD files without any problems. I believe the lasted XViD codec may also do all the DivX files as well, but I usually stick with 1 if I could (DivX is my choice as it's been out longer).

-Vb-