Framerate issue with videos

[JE78]

This is a weird problem and it just started happening. When i'm watching videos the framerate gets really slow, like a high end game running on a low end computer. It will run like this for a few seconds then go back to normal, then back to choppy again. I've tried WMP10, Divx Player, Video Lan, Power DVD all with the same result. Here are my specs:

AMD 3200+
1GB OCZ 3200 RAM
ATI x800XL PCI-E
Sound Blaster Live!

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

open task manager while your watching a video. see if any what process is taking up cpu usage. what type of video codecs does it happen with??

 

[JE78]

the CPU usage is anywhere from 13%-22%, Explorer.exe is taking up 51k of memory. It seems to be doing it with the Divx Codec. But I also have some movies that uses the Divx Codec that it runs fine. This has really got me stumped.

 

[Dkcode]

Do a search for a program called ffdshow

This seems to solve alot of problems like this.

 

[JE78]

That seemed to do the trick with the video. But now I don't have any audio?

 

[gsellis]

What kind of video are you displaying? What is the source (CDs playing high rate videos can do this)?

Based on your machine specs, I would suspect slow media.

 

[JE78]

Thanks for the help guys. I got the video working and the audio working. I just had to enable the Uncompressed option under the codecs.