buffer pb when playing Divx clips

[lelol]

Hi there

I'm experiencing a boring problem. Every 30 seconds or so, both sound and video are kinda auto repeating a very short sequence (like a scratched CD) during 1 second before proceeding. Anyone has an idea?

Win XP
Abit KR7 (Via chipset drivers 4.37v)
AMD 1700+
512 DDR Ram
nVidia Riva TNT 16M b (worked perfectly on Win2k)

Thanks for your help

[Emp3r0r]

Are you running your movie from a CD? You may need to slow your CD Rom down to fix this problem, or copy it to hard drive.

[lelol]

I have also tried this, but, no change. On top of this, it appears that it is a random problem...
In no cases has any other application been running either..
An other of M$ big mysteries???

[Doom9]

repeating or speeding up? what divx version? what audio codec? what audio encoding mode (vbr or cbr)?

[lelol]

I played clips with either WMP, playa, BS Player.
I tried several clips encoded with several diff softs, divx codecs from 3.11 to 4.12 always one pass only for 4x codecs, audio franhauffer or AC3 (I did not pay attention to the bitrates) anyways, no matter which, they all seem to act the same way : when one works, all do, when one doesn't, neither do the others.
I really suspect HW issue. I did not seem to be able to reproduce it voluntarily, it does not seem to be affected by applications I would run just prior to playing the videos, maybe some background task I would not have noticed ??

[Dr_Colossus]

Try Zoomplayer http://pisho.net/dvdgenie/zoomplayer250b2.zip it has an option to disable VMR under Options/Settings/Toggles its new to XP and is said to have incompatibilities with some media. I haven't had any problems with this turned on but maybe in combination with your hardware it may cause some trouble. And as always update your TNT drivers the Detonator XP's make a big difference in OS "smoothness".

[lelol]

Originally posted by Dr_Colossus
Try Zoomplayer http://pisho.net/dvdgenie/zoomplayer250b2.zip it has an option to disable VMR under Options/Settings/Toggles its new to XP and is said to have incompatibilities with some media.

All right, I'll try that when I'm home tonight =)

Thanks

[Bugs Bunny]

Wow, you're running a Riva on an Athlon 1700? Doesn't that kinda defeats the purpose of the faster CPU?

I've a TNT2 on my old Cel300A box, and I've found that the newer Det drivers are problematic with the card. I've stuck with rev 5 or 7.xx or something like that. But then, I'm not running XP on it.

If you said that it runs OK on 2K but not on XP, then sounds like a vid driver situation to me.