DivX and IE6

by **earthlink** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:04 am

I am running Win2000. Whenever I have a DivX movie playing and I try to open up IE6, when I scroll up or down the page in IE, the divx movie will skip and the sound kind of sounds like it is slightly skipping as well. Any ideas as to why it is doing that? I used to have WinXP on a different machine and it never used to do that. I do have the latest version of Divx but I use Windows Media Player 9 to play the movies.

by **tazdevl** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:38 pm

Probably too much for your computer or its a poorly encoded file.

by **earthlink** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:14 pm

But I have an AMD 2500, 512 RAM, 64 MB Video Card Geforce4 MX440 8XAGP. It's way better than my other comp that could run them easily without doing that.

by **tazdevl** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:53 pm

Don't know. Could be a compatibility issue with Win2K. Have you installed SP4? Do you have the latest drivers for your graphics card?

Could also be your graphics card.

Might be temp related as well.

by **minix** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:39 pm

What's your sound card?

I have a lot of similar problems with SoundBlaster16 in WinXP, and I know that SB128 and Live have those problems in certain computers.

Try disabling the sound card in the device manager (just disabling not uninstalling).

by **tazdevl** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:34 pm

How is he supposed to listen to the movie?

by **minix** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:40 pm

tazdevl wrote:How is he supposed to listen to the movie?

He can't.
But if everything goes well after that, then he might be suffering the same problems as me.
It's a matter of discarding options.

by **Inertia** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:06 pm

earthlink,

I would suspect some undesired interaction between Win2000, IE 6, and WMP 9.

I would suggest trying the freeware BSPlayer instead of the Windows Media Player. BSPlayer has great flexibility as a DivX (and general) file player and uses resources efficiently with low overhead. I have used it for a couple of years, and prefer it to other file players.

by **minix** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:29 pm

I was wrong.
My DivX videos also slow down when I browse web pages. It's the same with sound enabled or disabled (sound disabled is what I used to check that my SB16 killed the performance of the games in XP/2K, but it doesn't apply here I think).
You would notice poor sound quality when CPU is stressed too, if you had the same problems as me.

by **earthlink** on Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:59 pm

well I've got the SB Live 5.1 . I dont know if it's the sound card cause the video skips too, not just the sound.

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