Divx 5.05 Playback is but choppy ?!

[Swoop]

Well im posting here as a relative newbie. I have ripped like 7 movies myself now, just for the fun, but i seem to be having a problem i cant localise.

I suspect it's the codec in some way, and not the rip.. but then again i would hate to have to re-rip my backup movies becaus of a error.

The movies play fine, but every once in a short while it chopps a bit... it's not in the same place every time, and it's like it accumulates while playing and then suddenly lags a bit in playback and then it start over... so i get theese choppy pauses (small but irritating) during the movie.
As i said i suspect my decoding as the perpretrator since the lag doesnt come on the same places in the movie... its like it has to do with system resources which really should not be an issue on a 2 ghz p4 with 1 gb ram and nothing but windows media player running there.. i have also tried other players all with the same result...

Hope somebody has a idea to the problem.

I'm using the Kazaalite Codec pack as my codec source, and DivX 5.05. But it dont thing it's the divx version as one of the movie where encoded using 5.02 and its still choppy. Of course it could be the 5.05 decoder but i doubt it... anyways hope somebody can help me a bit...

Also i had the problem pre-format and still now after i did a totalt format of my drive ..

[manono]

Hi and welcome to the forum-

A couple of things come to mind to explain that. One is if you are using the DivX decoder to decode the .avi, and you have Smooth Playback enabled, then disable it. Or better yet, use ffdshow (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Filters/ffdshow-20021213.exe) to do the decoding.

The other thing that might explain it, particularly if the audio is AC3, is incorrect interleaving values. One way to prove whether or not the audio is the cause of the problem is to save the movie without the audio (do you know how to do that?). If it plays smoothly without the audio, then you'll know the audio is at fault, and the problem can be corrected fairly easily.

There may be other possible causes also. Maybe some other people have some ideas.

[Swoop]

Thx for the suggestions...

i have tried to turn smooth playback off.. better but still get choppy moments...
I'm gonna tro the other thing..ffshow..

UPDATE:
FFDshow didnt help.. in fact made the movie somewhat inviewable.. it distorted the image in a skewed manner across the screen multiple times... and still i could see the studder.

I fear that somehow my own computer is a fault somehow.. dont know how in any way. But i tried to playback another movie i had which was in xvid and it also chopped.. but more than my recent divx conversions... wierd huh ?

At this point i'm down to the system simple not having enough resources... which i dont understand the least.. i have more than enough it should seem.

Anyways gonna play around with it a while.. but feel very very free to come with any suggestions you might have.
Also if anybody would like to try and help me by viewing a small clip i encode and telling me if its choppy in their system as well i would appriciate it.. just lemme know in this thread and i will contact you ;)

Thx in advance

[manono]

Hi-

it distorted the image in a skewed manner across the screen multiple times

Are you using some strange resolution, or something? There are thousands of people using ffdshow without problem, so perhaps you just didn't have it set up right. In any event, I'll be happy to test a part of one of the .avis. Just PM me.

[Swoop]

Well i dont think so.. but after i somwhow got my videos playing properly it's not fucked again.. unfortunately

Dunno why, but since i got them playing without a glitch i'm now convinced it's not the vids themself but the codecs and player somwhow.. though all the different players i have tried give the same result leaving the codecs (or some anomily on the system) to blame...

Gonna mess around with it some more, and see what i come up with... any suggestion welcome again ;)

[killingspree]

Originally posted by Swoop
Well i dont think so.. but after i somwhow got my videos playing properly it's not fucked again.. unfortunately

please watch your language!

also your system specs might be helpful, aswell as details about your encoding process! :)

steVe

[Swoop]

Sorry about the language.. was a bit ticked off when i was writing... my bad. Just hate it when this stuff happens and i have no clue as to what causes it... :(

Okay as i stated i'm 100 percent sure that it's not the encoding process in any way, nor my output files.. we tested on a friends machine yesterday and everything ran smoothly.

Also it DID run good here, and always used to only happende recently this choppyness.

Systemspecs:
2 Ghz p4
1 GB Ram
2x 80 GB HD 1x 30 GB (system disk)
WinXp SP1
Media Player 9
ATI Radeon 9500 pro gfx card

Just for the record i used XMpeg to encode the movies, in DivX (various version, but same result in all) and as stated it has worked fine before.. so i really dont think it's the rips themselves...

Again sorry about the language, my bad. Hope you have some suggestions :D

[Swoop]

Hmm i might have located the problem to being the gfx drivers... then again i cant really get it clear.

I haev tried to uninstall the 3.4 catalyst i was using (og was it 3.5... ) and after a reboot with VGA installed i put in 3.6 drivers instead.

Not i can see the movies without shuddering.... but i fear it's not quite the permanent fix im hoping.. i will report back..

[killingspree]

nice to hear there's finally some progress :)