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icarusancalion ([personal profile] icarus) wrote2005-12-17 06:27 am
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Wheee, SGA! Now, if only it weren't moving in slow motion.

[livejournal.com profile] thegrrrl2002, I got the codecs! (I also have the story, oh man do I have the story, paintguns and everything).

It's a million times better, thank you. [livejournal.com profile] wildernessguru asked me last night: "So how's it going?"

"Progress has been made. I have a picture. The pictures are moving. And I have sound."

I was able to get DivX to work, and it plays so much more smoothly than Windows Media Player with better sound quality.

The Century Hotel clip plays like a dream, but for some reason on the SGA episodes, the video runs at 15 seconds per second while the audio plays at a normal rate... until it starts skipping and repeating. Sometimes it almost works, other times the video is far behind the audio in slo-mo.

Slo-mo Rodney is better than No-mo Rodney, but I have a feeling this should be something simple.

I'm not sure if there's a setting I should adjust for an .avi recording of HDTV, or if the codecs for WMP and DivX are interfering with each other-?

Flist, oh techies, any ideas? I'm running Win98 with the older version of DivX since the current one won't run on my system. (My processing speed is too slow to run WinXP, alas.)
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[identity profile] daneffew.livejournal.com 2005-12-17 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Try this media player.

go to

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and download the player. This player will play anything.

[identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com 2005-12-17 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, got it!

Hmm. It plays the audio beautifully, but I'm not getting anything on the video.

Could the codecs for different players be interfering with each other?

Icarus

[identity profile] thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com 2005-12-17 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm...that's pretty strange! It still sounds like a codec problem of some sort. I've heard that codec conflicts can cause that to happen. And are you playing directly from the CD, or did you copy the avi to your hard drive? And did you try either of the WMPs?

I think I'v maxed out my media player knowledge. Hopefully someone will have better suggestions!

[identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com 2005-12-17 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I read somewhere that you shouldn't have different codecs at the same time. Hmm...

I've tried it both ways. I copied Atlantis 1.03 to my hard drive and played it from there. No difference (except it was quieter than my humming CD-ROM drive). I tried selecting DMA on my CD-ROM drive (don't ask, it just ran across it reading the documentation for the VLC media player).

I'm worried that my system may be too slow to run these files. I have a laptop with only an "AMD K-6 3D processor, ~360 MHrz" which means little to me except that it's slow and I can't install WinXP. But my tech-guy says I should be able to play them, no sweat, it's just a matter of the right codecs.

I'm also wondering if there's a way (Icarus gears up little shreds of knowledge gleaned in last night's SGA foray) to adjust the buffering and the bit-rate at which these files are decoded.

Hmm. Which is what the codecs are supposed to do, I imagine.

I'm inching closer to a solution. It's almost there, it's just a matter of getting this last problem resolved.

Icarus
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