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  • StingX
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    • Mar 2009
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    Can anybody help me?

    I am not sure if my AVI codec is broken or what, but for atleast the last few days, everytime I try to watch an AVI file in any of my media players, it lags hard. It freezes for half a second or so every second. It's totally unwatchable. Considering that basically every video file on my computer is AVI, that's a problem eh? I wasn't having this problem a month ago, or even a few weeks ago and I have no idea what could have happened to change anything.

    First off, can anybody confirm that this is a broken codec? Or can anybody give me the true diagnosis? And if it is the codec, can anybody give me a good place to find a new AVI codec? I seem to have forgotten where my old one came from T.T

    Thanks
  • boredjedi
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    • Jun 2007
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    #2
    Re: Can anybody help me?

    Well I don't know your system specs but first I would do a chkdsk on the drive then right after do a defrag on it. If it's still laggy then it could be a conflicting codec causing the problem.
    http://eighteenlightyearsago.ytmnd.com/

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    • PolarFox
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      • Sep 2009
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      #3
      Re: Can anybody help me?

      I'm always use k-lite codec pack - good and full :)

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      • StingX
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        • Mar 2009
        • 5496

        #4
        Re: Can anybody help me?

        Originally posted by PolarFox
        I'm always use k-lite codec pack - good and full :)
        What I'm using currently and have been using for like 2 years. Even reinstalled and it still is ****ing up.

        Originally posted by boredjedi
        Well I don't know your system specs but first I would do a chkdsk on the drive then right after do a defrag on it. If it's still laggy then it could be a conflicting codec causing the problem.
        Did a checkdisk, but nothing seemed to come up. Defragging right now. We'll see what happens.

        Update: Defragging done - nothing has changed. Running a virus scan, although I highly doubt that will do shit.

        Update 2: One thing I didn't mention, is that I was playing these off of my external. They have always played there without issue. I copied a file on to my internal and it played like normal. WTF? Why could this be?

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        • Buzz
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          • Jan 2009
          • 4149

          #5
          Re: Can anybody help me?

          which player do you use?...I would recommend the VLC-player and when it sucks also then try to de-and reinstall your windows media player...removing the driver of your videocard completely is another option...search google for the lastest one and install it...when you are still in trouble after this then nothing left to you as to convert all your AVI files in WMV or something...
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          • Rowan
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            • Nov 2009
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            #6
            Re: Can anybody help me?

            Originally posted by Stingy
            Update 2: One thing I didn't mention, is that I was playing these off of my external. They have always played there without issue. I copied a file on to my internal and it played like normal. WTF? Why could this be?
            Oh, this has happened to me before! Recently it seems to be okay, but a couple of months after I got my external harddrive I couldn't play any music off it without it freezing and crap, which is bad because my entire music collection is on it. I don't know why it doesn't do that any more (not that I'm complaining) but I spoke to someone about it and they said that it's not a rare problem because you're not meant to run things of an external, it's just meant to be for storage. I don't really know what you can do about it or why that is even the case, though...

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            • StingX
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              • Mar 2009
              • 5496

              #7
              Re: Can anybody help me?

              Originally posted by Rowan
              I couldn't play any music off it without it freezing and crap
              I dunno....I can play music fine, and even watch SOME video on it. It only seems to be video with certain settings that it doesn't like...which makes no sense lol. I would totally put some of this shit on my internal if it was bigger than 127GB

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              • Rowan
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                • Nov 2009
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                #8
                Re: Can anybody help me?

                Originally posted by Stingy
                Originally posted by Rowan
                I couldn't play any music off it without it freezing and crap
                I dunno....I can play music fine, and even watch SOME video on it. It only seems to be video with certain settings that it doesn't like...which makes no sense lol. I would totally put some of this shit on my internal if it was bigger than 127GB
                Well, I'm not saying it has to be everything, because that was the same with me - some things worked and some didn't, I was just comparing experiences. I still don't know how to fix it though so I'm a bit useless. XD

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                • LazyPooky
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                  • Oct 2007
                  • 6950

                  #9
                  Re: Can anybody help me?

                  Originally posted by boredjedi
                  get a real OS
                  Magnús: - I have fans of all ages and I don't think it's weird when older people like LazyTown. LazyTown appeals to people for many different reasons: dancing, acrobatics, etc.

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                  • PolarFox
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                    • Sep 2009
                    • 805

                    #10
                    Re: Can anybody help me?

                    Check the disk on errors.

                    And go to Control panel >>
                    Administration > something called like "event viewer" > in tab System (or Applications) see the errors (red x) , if you have a read/write errors from current disk - it's bad...
                    At least you need check the disk , by standard MS disk-o-checker

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                    • StingX
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                      • Mar 2009
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                      #11
                      Re: Can anybody help me?

                      Originally posted by PolarFox
                      And go to Control panel >>
                      Administration > something called like "event viewer" > in tab System (or Applications) see the errors (red x) , if you have a read/write errors from current disk - it's bad...
                      At least you need check the disk , by standard MS disk-o-checker
                      The event viewer doesn't seem to come up with anything, and I don't think dskchk can check externals. Unless I'm doing it wrong. I am however defragging the external right now.

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                      • StingX
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                        • Mar 2009
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                        #12
                        Re: Can anybody help me?

                        I think my problems may be solved. If the defragging doesn't work (and I doubt it will), I spoke to my father who is a comouter geek and he suggested that my external wasn't getting enough power. This seems very likely because about a month ago I bought a new keyboard which filled up the last remaining port. So after this defragging, I'm gonna try unplugging something USB and running the video. If it works, then I'll head my ass down to Office Depot to pick up a USB hub and win!

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                        • ooozmin
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                          • May 2007
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                          #13
                          Re: Can anybody help me?

                          Your external runs off USB power only??? Yeah that might be it. Also I doubt it's a codec issue with the avi format, that would just be.....weird.
                          Get Lazy's #1 fugitive!

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                          • StingX
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                            • Mar 2009
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                            #14
                            Re: Can anybody help me?

                            Originally posted by ooozmin
                            Your external runs off USB power only??? Yeah that might be it. Also I doubt it's a codec issue with the avi format, that would just be.....weird.
                            Nah, it has an AC plug in too. Either way, problem solved now ;)

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                            • boredjedi
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                              #15
                              Re: Can anybody help me?

                              Speaking about problems. My power supply died caturday night. Been without my computer till last night. Got a 450 watt dell scrap from a friend of my nephew. It seems the rest of my system is okay didn't get hurt by the dying thing. Still under warranty a year left which is good. Think their programmers messed up because it wasn't suppose to do this until a week after the warranty was up :) The company OCZ is good though. None of that crappy repair looping they send you a complete new product but the warranty remains the same as the old one. Their rma process is slow though. Taken me two days to get the rma number for it which they sent last night.

                              Probably won't get the replacement for like two weeks if I'm lucky. Going to pick up a good backup one though next week so for now it's the 450 watts.
                              http://eighteenlightyearsago.ytmnd.com/

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