Freezes during playback

[JarrettH]

Hello

I've had this happen on several occasions now. The frame will freeze during playback but the audio continues. As far as I can see it happens at least 90 minutes into the movie. Using DivX 6.1 and Media Player Classic (VMR9 Renderless, render in 2D, Bicubic 0.60).

Thanks :0

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Does this happen if, for example, you start playing the video at the 85 minute point? If not, it may be that your system is overheating...

[CWR03]

Are you playing these files back from your hard drive or from a burned DVD-ROM? It's typical to get video pauses if there's a problem with the disk.

[JarrettH]

They're being played from the hard drive. I know I don't have heating issues because I did a lot of modifications myself. It doesn't happen if I skip back a minute from the same part. Come to think of it it has happened with XviD too. I watched a couple star trek movies that were in XviD. I'm using DivX to post-process because it is far superior looking.

[setarip_old]

I know I don't have heating issues because I did a lot of modifications myself.
Not questioning your skills in any way, but every system has the potential to overheat, if only from the accumulation of grime and/or dust...

[jggimi]

Moving to PC HW/SW forum.

[tareek]

may be, your Operating System (Windows XP) is having hard time in distributing the computing resources for different software and hardware .

found similar problem in many PCs, Laptops, etc . most of them were using many vendor utility soft (Dell, Toshiba, Compaq, IBM, etc) .

as soon as, got rid of many un-necessary soft, files played without any jerking, freezing, etc .

for example, these vendor gives you "your_mobo_sound_card_driver.exe" driver installer for your sound card , they just install/run the whole soft/exe for the driver . which installs driver (system file) and other vendor specific audio utility (application) software like volume control, media player, etc .

if you run task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) , then you'll see the list of bunch of these garbage utility in the Process list .

but, if they (or you) were to decompress (WinRAR, 7-Zip) this installer exe in a folder first, and then use "Update Driver" from "Driver" tab page to update the driver, then, only the necessary driver (system) file would get installed in your OpSys, instead of both driver (system) and utility (application) software . where, those utilities are not that necessary .

you can get rid of some of these utility , by using regedit.exe , goto " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Run " key . before changing/deleting garbage stuff from the right pane side , you should backup this part of the registry settings, by right-clicking on the "Run" and select "Export", then choose a name & folder for this backup reg file . if you accidentally delete any important utility, then you can edit/view this file and re-add the necessary part by manyally . now start delete un-wanted utility from the right side pane on Registry Editor, carefully . this process should get rid of some un-wanted programs . you may use Process Explorer to find more info on different software (see this post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=753590#post753590)) .

also clean up, "Start (Menu) -> (All) Programs -> Startup" . create a menu folder "Startup Disabled" and move un-necessary soft there, from "Startup" .

in some cases, had to uninstall/re-install/newly-install different codecs to fix the problem .

also run full diskcheck scan on your hard drives, to identify, fix bad sectors . lossy source might cause freezup . re-create/re-download .

in the case of video freezup, but audio is ok ... re-create/re-download, check file integrity, check drive .

have fun