Playback probs on my pc

[geekhead83]

my pc config is :
p3 450 mhz
192mb ram
8mb sis 6326 agp

So, divx movies (avi and divx) should play fine on my pc, but they dont

except bsplayer, (that too in desktop mode) no other player can play my avi files smoothly. wmp9 gives a very choppy ( pauses after every 3 secs or so) playback.

i have tried all players, divx player, zoom player etc.

i 've installed 3ivx codec with xvid and ac3 sound codecs. i dont think there is any prob with the codecs.

Now, the only prob i have is that while playing in bsplayer, i cant get it to increase the brightness which is very essential.


wmp9 increases the brightness but the playback is not smooth.

If i press the shortcut key for increasing brightness in bsplayer, the movie skips forward(as if ive pressed the forward button) but there is no increase in the brightness.



Please suggest a remedy.

[alcskid]

My remedy suggestion was just replace your SIS with nVidia or just more powerfull VGA card. Cause SIS VGA had a very BAD Perfomance (I had experience with it) ! And since I move to nVidia Riva TNT2 with 32MB, the problem SOLVED ! I can playback smoothly on every player ! My PC power was just AMD K6-2 500Mhz. But I had replaced my VGA !

[SKD_Tech]

Yeah a 8MB card isn't quite enough to play DivX very well.

[setarip]

1) Install good ol' reliable Windows Media Player v.6.4 (Desktop>>Start>>Run then type MPLAYER2.EXE)

2) Turn off all unnecessary programs running in the background

3) Lower your DESKTOP resolution (to, perhaps 800x600 or even 640x480)

4) Lower your DESKTOP color depth

[geekhead83]

hmm....

i tried lowering the resolution and playing in mplayer2.exe but still the playback is still jerky....


If i had a problem wth playback with all players then fine...

but bsplayer plays the files fine and real smooth in desktop mode....the only thing is that the brightness cannot be controlled inspite of the controlss being there...

how do i increase the brightness and contrst for the movies as the controls in bsplayer do not respond!!!

[geekhead83]

PLz reply guys!!

PLz someody suggest a rememdy....my vacations r coming 2 an end i wanna watch those movies......so plz reply!!

[LeJimster]

Re: PLz reply guys!!

Originally posted by geekhead83
PLz someody suggest a rememdy....my vacations r coming 2 an end i wanna watch those movies......so plz reply!!

I'm having similar problems trying to get Divx/Xvid stuff to play on my old AMD k6-2/500 processor. Upto now.. the best work around i've found is to uninstall both Divx & Xvid codecs, andto install something called ffdshow. The latest alphas seem to be pretty good, but im still trying to work out the best settings for my computer.. as its not 100% smooth yet.. Still its alot better than it was .

Heres the only settings that seem to make a difference for me..

If anybody else has some good settings to speed things up.. please say.

[SKD_Tech]

If it wasn't such a big deal I would try going back to Windows 98. That is a little of your problem right there. XP requires more resources than 98 does.

[LeJimster]

Well I dont know what OS geekhead is running, but I have often thought it would probably run better on 98, but is it worth all the crashes and general mess 98 creates? No i dont think so. When I had this system for myself 3 years ago.. It was horridly unstable. a year or so ago, i gave it to my mom and put XP on.. It's been perfectly behaved and stable all that time, I dont think I'd sacrifice that for a weeny bit of performance.

Another little performance booster is to set mplayer2.exe to "above normal", that helped get rid of some lipsync problems I was having.

I think I'm right in thinking that the PIII 450 is much more powerful than my AMD k6-2/500 anyway... So you *should* with my options be getting nice smooth playback.

[Enchanter]

Re: PLz reply guys!!

Originally posted by geekhead83
PLz someody suggest a rememdy....my vacations r coming 2 an end i wanna watch those movies......so plz reply!!

Replace your SiS 6326 VGA adapter with at least a PCI VGA card. I have seen a system using this adapter once and, to say the least, its 2D performance in the general desktop was piss-poor. I cannot imagine how bad it is for video playback.

[geekhead83]

well i run win98se.......and i am trying to work those ffdshow settings as well..

when i run a movie in bsplayer ....the properties options does not show ffdshow config settings until i manually set the settings in ffdshow config to "raw mode" as well..... but this slows down the video horribly.
also the properties has an option 3ivx config....when i click this bsplayer hangs...


what on earth is wrong?? god, it so frustrating...

I have the foll movies and cant watch even 1 of them coz of the contrast(brightnes) probs in bsplayer and playback probs in all other players..

LOTR1
LOTr2
Catchmeif.....
GangsofNY
hicago
etc etc....in all 15movies...

[Enchanter]

Re: geekhead83

Change your VGA adapter to a more decent one and we will talk . . .

[QwErTyKb]

Try increasing the process priority of the movie player. Find out the name of the executable of the movie player. Press ALT+CTRL+DEL, hit the Task Manager button, go to the Processes tab, look for the movie player in the list, right click on it, go to Set Priority, and then set it to Realtime.

See if that makes any difference.

[geekhead83]

well...

fine abt the playback,,,,,just one lst thing/??

How do i increse the brightness of the movies in bsplayer???

Plz guys uve been so coperative, just continue to be so....
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[SKD_Tech]

I am not sure if you can increase the brightness in BSPlayer but if you can adjust the brightness on your monitor.

If you are playing it in fullscreen you won't notice the difference to the desktop until you close out BSPlayer.