Slow Videos

Lady Anime · Post by **Lady Anime** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:21 pm

When I try to watch certain videos,the actual video footage goes really slow and sluggish,but the music goes at a normal pace.

If this information might help:

I have a Hewlett Packard(Windows 98)
Umm... I only have 393 mb of space out of the 4.00 GB on the computer(That might be the problem,but most videos are just fine...so I'm not sure).
I use DivX(not sure which version)

I'm trying to figure out what the problem is. I think it might be the fact my computer is really old,but most of the videos I try to watch run perfectly. So far, 3 videos have done the whole slow footage thing.

Thanks in advance to anyone who might help...

And because this is my first post,^_^ nice to meet you all!

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:09 am

Ok the problem is your computer. With specs like that, the poor thing doesnt have much hope of drawing 25 images every second, esspecialy with the complex algorythms of mpeg4 video. The only solution is to save up and buy a new computer. Computers these days are pverpowered for what most people use them for, so a cheap comp at around $1000 should do the job nicel, and woent be to bad to edit on iether.

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:25 am

I would easily agree that your computer is too slow to play any WMV or MPEG-4 based video. Playing MPEG-1 should be just fine though. But hearing that reminds me of my days of editing on a computer as slow or slower than yours. Good times I must say!

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:46 am

bum wrote:Computers these days are pverpowered for what most people use them for, so a cheap comp at around $1000 should do the job nicel, and woent be to bad to edit on iether.

Is that in US or Australian?
I'm sure you could get a perfectly competent computer for media-center-type use for about $500 here... maybe less. Systems that cheap are all over the computer catalogues that come in the mail and stuff.

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:29 am

$1000 would be more than enough with AU and US dollar. You could build yourself a very nice system with that, 3ghz procesor, 160GB hdd, 512ddr, dvd burner, and everything els. The monitor would probably cost more than the rest of the components, but $250AU for a 17inch flat screen ctr aint a bad price. Personaly I would never buy a oem system and would kill a freind if they ever did, but if your not that computer savy then they're a decent choice.

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:53 am

If you can't afford a new computer it may be worth a trial to clean up the harddrive. Delete the contents of the temp directory, delete all temporary files (which start with ~ or end .tmp, .bak, .sik), empty the cache of the internet exploder or whatever browser you use and run the defrag utility.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:42 am

You may also want to try Crystal Player which is the best player for videos that your pc cant handle. It has some options you can configure which will allow it to buffer the video as it plays, allowing you to view parts that are normally too tough for your pc to handle in real-time.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:55 pm

Scintilla wrote:I'm sure you could get a perfectly competent computer for media-center-type use for about $500 here... maybe less.

Hmm? What's that?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:51 pm

AMVfreak wrote:
Scintilla wrote:I'm sure you could get a perfectly competent computer for media-center-type use for about $500 here... maybe less.
Hmm? What's that?

Gah! Evil! Evil!

www.newegg.com

That's better.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:00 pm

Kalium wrote:
AMVfreak wrote:
Scintilla wrote:I'm sure you could get a perfectly competent computer for media-center-type use for about $500 here... maybe less.
Hmm? What's that?
Gah! Evil! Evil!

Oh, come on! For the past few years (maybe longer), eMachines has been selling perfectly reasonable systems. They're kinda like Hyundai that way.

I myself am still running an eMachines T2080 from 2002. Came with an Athlon XP 2000+ (Palomino), DVD-ROM drive, CD-RW drive, floppy, 80 MB Maxtor HD, and 512 MB of Samsung PC2100 RAM.
Only upgrades I've had to make to it since are adding a SoundBlaster Audigy (for recording), two new hard drives, and a SATA controller card.