slow playback of videoclips on any program

galaxy

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hiya

i hav got these clip and some others that i wanted to watch but when i play the video clips, the video seems to be slower that the audio...
i mean, the audio jitters jus a little but the video is jus too slow..

im not sure why this is the case but it is quite annoying not to be able to see the clip smoothly as shud be...

so can anyone tell me if this is a codec problem or wat...???

thanx alot

regards,
galaxy

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it could be your video settings or you could need some ram maybe

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(pasted from my post in thread 7744)
Two common causes:
1. The person who encoded the video did a poor job. It’s not common, but it happens.
2. The computer you’re using is underpowered. Modern codecs (like divx, windows media video 9, h.264) take a lot of processing power to render video, and if your processor is old, frames will be dropped, audio and video will fall out of sync, the scene may seem to freeze. Video freezes more often, since video codecs take a lot more processing power than audio codecs. One easy way to check if you’re using Windows 2000 or XP is to look under your task manager. Right click your taskbar, then choose task manager. Look under performance. Is cpu usage at 100% while the video plays? if so chances are it’s choking on decoding the video. There’s not much that can be done except get a newer processor. You can also try to allocate as much cpu power to video playback by turning off and closing all unnecessary tasks (instant messengers, file sharing, anything in the taskbar, and (for advanced users only) services). Also disable post-processing and film effect if the file uses the divx codec. Finally another way to check if the processor is underpowered is using virtualdub. if the file plays in virtualdub in slow motion then your pc is underpowered. virtualdub is also a good way to view the movie without freezing/dropped frames (if you don’t mind slow-motion video and inaudible audio)

Brok

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I also have this problem. Videos that I was able to play before are slow and move frame by frame. I freed up a lot of hard drive space, and defragged my disk but nothing works. The CPU usage when playing is at 100%. Is there anything I can do considering that my computer was able to play these videos a day before, but not anymore? Thanks

neemo

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get a new pc!

Mikeinspain

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Hi
I’m getting the same problem (movies playing really slowly in all programs) but cpu and ram are showing in task manager at around 30%.
This has only happened since I played a DVD on PowerDVD (it went 'blocky') and then finished watching the movie on Media Player.
Tried defrag/cleanup and still nothing