Music skipping.

Alice_Seno · Post by **Alice_Seno** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:02 pm

Well the music plays fine but the actual video is frozen. shows one shot, then skips a whole bunch then moves onto one more shot, etc.

I saved it how you said and thats how it turned out.

Alice_Seno · Post by **Alice_Seno** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:05 pm

I just want to add that, I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo upset at WMM right now lol

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:14 am

If you got to the point where you have a HuffYUV AVI, then that's to be expected. Don't bother trying to <i>play back</i> HuffY files -- they're troublesome even for the fastest desktops.

Instead, convert the video to something distributable -- an <a href="/guides/avtech/mpeg1.html">MPEG</a> or a DivX/<a href="/guides/avtech/xvid.html">XviD</a> AVI.

(But before you do that, you might want to have a look at the sections on <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... l">serving the file via AVISynth</a>, <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ">removing interlacing</a> (if there is any left), and <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... >improving visual quality and compressibility</a>. Oh yeah, and don't forget to <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ">compress your audio</a> (if you're making an MPEG, TMPGEnc should do it pretty much automatically).)

Alice_Seno · Post by **Alice_Seno** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:40 pm

Wait wait, Im confused now. I did what you told me it saved to a Windows Media Audio/Video file. I first tried DIV AVI but the song froze, then did what you suggested and here i am.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:45 pm

Alice_Seno wrote:Wait wait, Im confused now. I did what you told me it saved to a Windows Media Audio/Video file. I first tried DIV AVI but the song froze, then did what you suggested and here i am.

So you've got the high-quality .WMV, right?
Did you convert that to AVI (or try serving it with AVISynth) yet?

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:51 am

Let me try to explain.

You probably have a crappy computer. That sounded like an insult, let me back up a bit. You see, by using the technique the other guy gave you, you now have a .wmv file that is of extremely high quality. So high of quality that WMP can't show the frames at the right speed to go with the audio (due to likely having an older computer or perhaps due to other things). What the guy above suggests is that you make a smaller version of the file for distribution. The smaller file should play back fine, theoretically. Try this. Export the movie to a new .wmv file with a different compression scheme. Watch it. If it looks fine with that, then your big file is probably okay, just too big for WMP to process quickly enough to view correctly. If your test .wmv looks bad too, well, I'm at a loss on what to do.