Windows Media Player 11 freezes on some vids

[PARANOiA]

Heya,

I'm using WMP11 at the moment, and for some reason it locks up when I play some XVID and DIVX video files. The strange thing is I can use MPC and it doesn't lock up at all.

Any hints?

 

[Frank]

Quite likely you have a broken codec somewhere. Download a codec pack and install that.

 

[willardjuice]

Heya,

I'm using WMP11 at the moment, and for some reason it locks up when I play some XVID and DIVX video files. The strange thing is I can use MPC and it doesn't lock up at all.

Any hints?

Yeah I get owned too with HD files using DXVA, reverting back to WMP10 solves the problem.

 

[hoom]

Hmm, lets see, M$ software doesn't work right but free non M$ software does work right...
-> Use MPC, leave WMP closed and be happy

 

[Frank]

Media player classic is the best. It does it all, and everything else as well. Did I mention that it is free?

 

[almighty]

I use this, Its excellent

 

[Frank]

I use this, Its excellent

Yes, I agree.

 

[willardjuice]

Media player classic is the best. It does it all, and everything else as well. Did I mention that it is free?

No DXVA support though

 

[Ateo]

By DXVA do you mean PureVideo?
If yes, you just need to add the filters under:
View>>Options>>External filters...

 

[willardjuice]

I'm on the red team ...so no Purevideo...

 

[BRiT]

I'm on the red team ...so no Purevideo...

I thought AMD's color was green.

 

[willardjuice]

I thought AMD's color was green.

Well as long as my X1950's are red... ...it will always be red for me...

 

[pcchen]

If you have some DVD player softwares installed (such as WinDVD) you can put their MPEG-2 decoder (which should support DXVA) filters in the MPC filter list and MPC will use them. Similarly, MPC can play WMV9/WVC1 files with DXVA support.

WMP 11 uses a very strange way to play files (IIRC it uses a wrapper filter to wrap a DirectShow graph, very weird), so sometimes it doesn't work when MPC works well (MPC uses DirectShow directly). For example, WMP 11 doesn't display anamorphic 16:9 WMV files with correct aspect ratio (WMP10 doesn't have this bug).

 

[willardjuice]

If you have some DVD player softwares installed (such as WinDVD) you can put their MPEG-2 decoder (which should support DXVA) filters in the MPC filter list and MPC will use them. Similarly, MPC can play WMV9/WVC1 files with DXVA support.

WMP 11 uses a very strange way to play files (IIRC it uses a wrapper filter to wrap a DirectShow graph, very weird), so sometimes it doesn't work when MPC works well (MPC uses DirectShow directly). For example, WMP 11 doesn't display anamorphic 16:9 WMV files with correct aspect ratio (WMP10 doesn't have this bug).

I can't even use WMP 11; it breaks DXVA for me altogether, reverting back to WMP 10 fixes it. I'll try using CyberLink filters tomorrow, thanks for the advice.

 

[demonic]

Use VLC Player : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Its the best out there bar none.

 

[Skrying]

Use VLC Player : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Its the best out there bar none.

Ehh, no. There's options missing that I like, it also has never run well on any of my Windows based machines. Works great for Linux, but I can't stand it in Windows.

 

[demonic]

Ehh, no. There's options missing that I like, it also has never run well on any of my Windows based machines. Works great for Linux, but I can't stand it in Windows.

Really? I dont run Linux at all. What are wrong with your Windows Machines?

It plays DVD, RVMB, WMV, DIVX, AVI, ASF, XVID. I know cos I have tried all those, it probably plays other formats that I havent mentioned.

What options are you missing as well? Wait, Nevermind, use what works for you lol. Works fine for me.

 

[Skrying]

Really? I dont run Linux at all. What are wrong with your Windows Machines?

It plays DVD, RVMB, WMV, DIVX, AVI, ASF, XVID. I know cos I have tried all those, it probably plays other formats that I havent mentioned.

What options are you missing as well? Wait, Nevermind, use what works for you lol. Works fine for me.

Its not a problem of what it plays, it played all of my media. It was the fact that I get super blocky images when skipping through parts of large video files, it would slow down for no reason, etc etc. That was across two formats (same hardware though). I might try it out on my new installation, we'll see.

 

[pcchen]

VLC is not bad but it's all software decoding, so it's relatively slow compared to accelerated decoders like MPEG-2 or VC-1. And VLC don't skip well... if something is too slow to decode, it just keeps dropping frames without displaying anything.

 

[Skrying]

VLC is not bad but it's all software decoding, so it's relatively slow compared to accelerated decoders like MPEG-2 or VC-1. And VLC don't skip well... if something is too slow to decode, it just keeps dropping frames without displaying anything.

Yep! I only ran into this problem with the Windows version and not the Linux (Ubuntu), not sure why but that's how it was.