Posted: 2/6/2009 1:26 AM
Post subject: AVI Sound or video sync drift
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Jerther
Joined: 2/6/2009
Posts: 2
Hi! I know, this must have been covered.. But can'T find anything about my case. Particulary on google, i've found pages and pages of results about people having the same problem as I, but they are trying to encode their movies or convert them, where I just want to play already built AVI files. My target computer is a Athlon 2400+, Windows XP Media Center 2005 with Service pack 3 and Roll up Update 2. Sound card is a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (SB0220) with creative drivers I try to use media center all the time so that I don'T have to use my keyboard or mouse, and everything stays clean and simple. But The problem is in MPlayer Classic also. When I play certain AVI files (I haven tried many) The file plays just fine at the beginning, but as the movi goes, the video seems to increasingly lag over sound to a point where sound cand be ahead by 1 whole second. I'm having this issue with all TAS AVIs i've downloaded here but to name only one: NES Metroid 100%. It is a DivX with MP3 sound. I've tried ffdshow (a 2002 version, can'T remember) and the latest ffdshow, then the latest DivX, migrate sound blaster drivers to the KX Project drivers, install service pack 3 (was service pack 2), update quartz.dll (even if it's only for english and japanese windows, i've managed to extract the file and replace it in system32 and regsvr32 it) and a couple of minutes ago, I tried what I thought would certainly work: play the movie with VLC. And of course, that did work. I could watch the entire Metroid movie without a single sync problem. Although I would say it seems like the video skips a bit to catch up on audio but that's not very perceptible since the NES itself lags in this game ;) ) Now, if there were a Codec version of VLC, I would have installed it right away so that it kicks in in Media center or MPlayer Classic. I've been having sync problems on AVIs for more than a decade and most of the time I just give up. But this time, it's a living room computer (Media Center) and it's important for me that the movies I watch are cleanly played. Of course I could just add VLC to the MCE Additionnal Programs but that's dirty ;) And I've already checked, there's no way to substitute the player of Media Center. It's built in. I'm trying the movie on my main desktop computer (Athlon XP 2500+ XP Pro) and the movie plays fine! What the hell... Well, this computer is one of a kind. I haven't reinstalled windows on this machine since 2002... 7 years, and it has seen many hardware changes, so I can'T remember all that I did so that avi files play without going out of sync. Any suggestion? Because I'm out of ideas... And kind of tired too ps: While you read, I might try to figure out what are the codecs I use on that machine.
Posted: 2/6/2009 1:48 AM
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Jerther
Joined: 2/6/2009
Posts: 2
I figured out that my desktop computer has DivX version 5.0.2 installed. So I tried it on my MCE: http://www.oldversion.com/download_DivX_5.0.2.html And voilà... it's a LOT better but not just yet. The video still increasingly lags over sound, but now, from time to time (maybe once every 2 minutes or when there's too much lag), there is a video frame skip so the video catches up on sound. This frame skip doesn't happen on my desktop computer. Darn codecs.. it's a living hell... Any thoughts?