My computer hates me!

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:43 am

ok my old hard drive died so I got a new one, but I saved most of my video files on an external drive. So I start trying to get some of the footage back that was on the hard drive that crashed and when I saved it in Virtualdub as a .avi with Xvid like I always do, it plays all slow and laggy, while all my old videos play just fine.
Also when I import all my old videos from my external drive into WMM, it won't play it.
And now all of a sudden none of my videos work at all. Not a single video file on this computer will play. I'll open it and all it does is show a black screen.
Does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong?

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:34 am

Maybe you forgot the mos important thing. CODECS.

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:50 pm

I've downloaded just about every codec I can think of.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:42 pm

Update DirectShow (A component of DirectX, so get 9.0C for it).

Belive it or not, that's how alot of codecs work now a days. Which is also why you cannot screen-cap most videos when they play.

-Zero

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:08 pm

ok, I updated Directshow, but nothing's changed. I tried encoding the .avi with a windows media codec and it plays fine, but WMM still won't let me edit it. And none of my video files that don't have a windows media codec still won't play.

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:09 pm

digifreak wrote: And none of my video files that don't have a windows media codec still won't play.

I should have worded that better. I meant that only video files with windows media codecs work on my comp.

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:41 am

Brsrk wrote:Maybe you forgot the mos important thing. CODES.

Sounds like someone needs ffdshow...

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:24 am

yes, I've had that for a while. Although, whenever my media player crashes, it shows the ffdshow taskbar thingy, but when I put my mouse over it it dissappears.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:08 pm

FFDirectshow doesn't have a system tray Icon I think.

I know most OGM filters do though.

-Zero

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:25 pm

here's a pic of what it does when my media player crashes http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v286/ ... /video.jpg
this is what WMM does http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v286/Valancar/WMM.jpg