Regular Rep: 5 Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,269 | jhvillegas2 wrote:
Why isn’t anyone answering this topic?
I apologize for the delay. There’s a lot of posts to go through, and some get buried (and sometimes forgotten altogether).
jhvillegas2 wrote:
The playback gets stuck and pixelates really bad.
That tends to indicate corruption within the video stream. If it only happens to one specific file, then that’s probably the cause. The only workaround would be to get another (uncorrupted) source, or (this is more of a trick, and doesn’t always work) skip over the corrupt portion.
jhvillegas2 wrote:
The playback also skips.
Corruption can do that too, but if it happens to all files using a specific codec, it could mean your CPU is underpowered. See #4 on this post To check the codec of the file(s) use gspot or avicodec.
jhvillegas2 wrote:
I suspect that I do not have the right decoder...I could be wrong. I have the XP Codec Pack installed. Still doesn’t correct it.
If you didn’t have the correct decoder you wouldn’t see any image at all. You’d just have a time bar like you would when playing an audio file.
There’s a caveat to all this (isn’t there one always?)
In my testing I’ve found sometimes codecs from different companies will sometimes attempt to decode other codecs; this is especially true when they’re from the same family (for example DivX/Xvid/3ivx are examples of MPEG-4 family codecs).
For example DivX 5/6 will try to decode Xvid, 3ivx, and DivX 3 contents. Most of the time it works, but sometimes it doesn’t do it correctly (I know older versions of DivX 5 had lots of bugs when decoding DivX 3 for example). Anyway since you have a codec pack it’s hard to know which decoder (or version) you’re using to decode a specific fourcc. (This is one of the reasons why I advocate against the use of codec packs). Anyway you can always check fourcc’s using gspot, or try installing/uninstalling various codecs to mix and match and check.
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