When I play back videos (avi) the picture goes very slow and then very fast to catch up. How can I stop this?
493431
what program are you using to play them and how old is your computer? the avi file may also be bad and thats why it does that.
801437
try changing the resolution or encoding to AVI tthen converting it later on.\n\nencoding to MPEG or DivX takes a lot of CPU and it gets messed up if you do it on the fly.
584070
Sounds like you have too many things running at the one time on your PC. Try using Media P. on it's own.
842879
could be a few things including, but not limited to, it's possible that your cpu is overheating, video playback requires a lot of processor power and it's possible it's pushing yours over the edge, when was the last time you took some canned air to your heat sync?\nyour video card driver is somehow corrupt or some other issue with the video card, go to the manufacturer's website and download a newer driver (right click My Computer > properties > hardware > device manager > display adapters.  that should show you who makes the video card (if you don't already know), then just go to their website and download the latest driver.\nit's possible windows media player is somehow corrupt (hah imagine that, microsoft software not working?! ;] ), i personally like media player classic as an alternative to WMP if i use windows\nMPC for XP: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?modtime=1142869788&big_mirror=0\nMPC for 9x/ME: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc98me6490.zip?modtime=1142869817&big_mirror=0\n\nhopefully one of these will help ;)
942162
Video conversion is highly CPU dependent. So if your CPU isn't fast enough, that may be the problem. It could also be a slow hard drive.
729504
The video you are buffering from does not have enough bandwidth.  Not much you can do about that.  Take some Aleve for the headache.
775237
there are several speeds at which the video is processed.same with songs as they can be played at 192 kbit per seconds or 120 kbits per second.video files will be processed much faster however you can convert them to play at the playback spped you wish.i suggest you download divx converter this will automatically change the playback speed of the file to the speed you wish.
105367
I've also had problems until I installed a DIVX player that read almost every type of file.  You may want to look into that if the first answer didn't help.
491830
Either the codec you are using to play back the file is wrong / out of date, or the video clip was encoded improperly so that the audio does not play back correctly.\n\nChances are it's on your end and can be corrected with a good install of the XVid or Divx codecs:\n\nhttp://www.divx.com
1042081
OHH THE HUMANITY! What emergency? Try reinstalling your video software. I cannot believe you reformatted for avi files! Go to download.com and get a different player, there are many things you can do rather than reformat, sounds like you have been taking advice from hardware_guy!
1083693
You can do this by updrading ur RAM, PROCESSOR, etc...\n\nBy here is a good and cool software which speeds up ur system:\n\ndownload it from here:\n\nhttp://www.webiz.designoman.net/speedxp/speeder.zip\n\nIts really Cool But be sure not to use it while playing Movies or videos..\n\nIf this helped u vote me as best answer...\n\nThanks,\n\nbye..
1134209
Your first idea is the best one, I suggest finding out why it crashes as this may happen to other software if it is a memory or CPU problem or a graphics card. I use movie player for movie editing and it works fine, a bit slow some times but it does the job.
673262
One thing i would look at is the number of processes running. Too many may be running consuming a massive chunk of your ram meaning less for the video & application.\n\nHijack this wont help with this problem. What you will need to do is spend a half hour or so looking at the "Processes" list when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Use a search engine and look up all processes consuming any unreasonable amount of ram.\n\nThis may sound liek it will take a while, and it will. BUt once you do so you will leave with possibly better video playback and a grasp on processes & which ones you need.\n\nThe first thing tho, you may want to dig into your media playback softwares performance options and test things out that way. And for videos on your drive, make sure your defragmented.\n\nGood luck...
257039
change the format to avi or someother format which will take less space. or zip it, but na it rele dosent work good for videos
832435
that means your video has a bad encode, and your program can't read it.\n\nYOu'd have to reencode/recapture your source video.
375020
try some other video player like real player or media player classic or winamp
563241
Two things you could do:\n\n1) Get a better Codec Pack, or some video enhancement software. Check out K.Lite Codec Packs...\n\nor\n\n2) Sit further away from the monitor while watching video.\n\n:)