Xvid / DivX video delay

[djargad]

Hello and happy new year

I have a problem and i am not sure if i am to blame my hardware.

I tried to play a xvid and a divx movie on the following setup

Pentium 3 800Mhz
384MB ram
MB EliteGroup P6BAP-A+ (Rev 2.2)
GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB
Soundblaster Live
Win XP Pro

when a divx or xvid movie plays, although the sound is normal there is a delay in video. (video plays in loow fps - 15-20 fps).

I use MPlayer classic 6.4.8.5 and ffdshow (2002).
Could this be a problem because of my software or my drivers? (i use the latest drivers) or should i send this PC to the museum :P

PS. Other video format files (in lower bitrates) play just fine. Plus I think that the pc could play divx and xvid sometime

PS.2.I have made every tweak in windows xp so as to free up resources but i saw no difference

Thanks in advance :)

[Skelsgard]

Did u meant delay or jerky? Cause they´re not the same. Delay means a track (audio,video, subs, etc..) is playing late compared with another track to wich it should be synched. Jerky means that the video or audio play with cuts, like a frame forzen then an abrupt jump to another frame where movement hasn´t been done fluently, or audio getting cut every now and then.
If your video is playing later than the audio, it´s delayed, if it´s playing all cutted, it´s jerky.
If the rendering is jerky, then i´m sorry to say that even with 384 RAM and a graphic accelerator your machine might be coming a little short on power to render DivX and XviD at certain bitrates while working OK on lower ones (specially if you´re running Win XP, might play just fine on Win 98).
Try to set ffdshow to Postprocessing --> Presets (Full) --> Automatic Quality Control: Enabled (it i´ll prevent your PC from choking when the processing needs exceed the capabilities of your machine, by lowering the postprocessing amount).
If the video is delayed then u should check the structure of the video, container, rendering filters configs, etc. and player options.

[buzzqw]

try updating software : mpc goes to 6.4.87 and a more recent ffdshow build

disable any post processing

next
try with mplayer / videolanclient
try with a low resource player like crystalplayer


hope that helps

BHH