Freezing

[knght990]

My computer freezes during all video playback. It happen 5 seconds to 3 minutes after the video starts in all applications. I did a clean install of windows XP Pro, did all the updates and all the latest system drivers.
How do i trouble shoot this? There is no error log but im forced to reset.

TL

 

[C1]

Presumably this also happens when playing a multimedia file from the HDD. If so, then check the video settings available in the BIOS. Many BIOSes allow different types of parameter settings for the video. I would selectively try different ones. You may have to try them in combinations so it might take a while.

Also look in the advanced properties setting of your video graphics. You may want to try turning as much stuff off (eg, 3D acceleration, etc.) or to minimum performance in attempt to ascertain if one of these processing areas is responsible for the glitch.

You should be able to use the built-in WINXP System Event Viewer capability to capture event sequences as part of trouble shooting.

 

[knght990]

Occurs with all video playback.

In video games, streaming, locally stored, mp4, avi, divx

Nothing in Event Viewer that looks abnormal to me.

I've gone so far as to switch video cards and remove all acceleration and pull out my audio accelerator. I've done all the BIOS and driver updates.

I was wondering if its a codec issue OpenGL/3d ffdshow something or other because i know little about these things. Basicly it doesn't seem to be hardware.

I do have hybrid SLI but it is disabled in the BIOS.

Anymore suggestions?

I was wondering if i can adjust the buffering size of video in windows?

TL

 

[knght990]

After lots of looking on the internet, i really think this is a codec issue, would anyone have any sites or books to recommend that could teach about codecs? Specifically ffdshow.

 

[Gooberlx2]

If it's happening in video games and streaming (presumably including flash)...then I doubt it's (just) a codec issue. You might consider monitoring processes and CPU/Memory usages.

Regardless, I use the k-lite codec pack. CCCP is also good. Both are built around ffdshow.