On playing second video, it plays in slow motion

[smartietube]

Wonder if anyone can sort my problem.

When I play a video, xvid,divx etc, my machine plays it fine. But when I try to play a second file, it starts of ok but then the video goes into slow motion while the audio is ok. This happens whether I play from cd/dvd or from the hard drive.

If I reboot, all is ok again until I try to play that second file.

All players do this including WMP,Divx and Creative player which I use as default because of remote control , with exception of VLC player which will happily play files all day.

System specs are AMD2500XP Barton, 512k RAM, MSI KT400 m/b, Windows XP Pro.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[tigerman8u]

vlc uses it's own codecs. Do you have the newest version of divx/xvid installed ?

[smartietube]

Thanks for your reply tigerman8u,

Yes I do have the latest version 1.03.00 I believe. I have even tried re-installing it to no avail.

It is something that is specific to this machine in some way as it always does it, even after a reformat. Just wonder if it could be anything to do with mainboard drivers or something but it does point to a codec issue somehow or it would still cause a problem with VLC if it was otherwise.

Who knows, it just bugs me having to reboot all the time.

Anybody any ideas?

[anonymez]

try downloading & installing the latest (alpha) version of "ffdshow" and play in windows media player..

[smartietube]

Thanks for your reply anonymez,

Can't but thank you enough, this solution works for me. I have fought with this problem for more than a year now to no avail.

The problem still exists with the creative media player but I can live with that ok, no hardship.

Many thanks to you again.

[anonymez]

glad to be of help