Need serious help with videos and codecs.. nothing works

[IMBerzerk]

Well, after bombing my system that worked fine other than the intro video, I have reloaded XP, tried every single codec known to man, spent over 6 hours playing with it... and still nothing works right.

My Emuvideos are very choppy, choppy like you can't even view them. The intro movie works... but really, I don't care. I need the videos to work. Once the cabinet is on, no one sees the video anyway. It was a dumb move on my part to even mess with this... now I am paying the full price for it.

I don't know what is wrong and why this is happeneing. I am now reloading XP again, as I have screwed with it enough that I am sure a few things are still stuck in it.

The videos worked fine before, without issue, so I have no idea what the hell the problem is. I load FFDshow, and it's choppy, I load K-lite... choppy, it's just damn frustrating now.

Thanks if anyone wants to give me a try. I really need to finish this. I have my daughters B-Day party next week, and everyone is expecting to play this thing as they do every year. It would suck to have it turned off.

IMBerzerk

[greatflash]

Well, after bombing my system that worked fine other than the intro video, I have reloaded XP, tried every single codec known to man, spent over 6 hours playing with it... and still nothing works right.

My Emuvideos are very choppy, choppy like you can't even view them. The intro movie works... but really, I don't care. I need the videos to work. Once the cabinet is on, no one sees the video anyway. It was a dumb move on my part to even mess with this... now I am paying the full price for it.

I don't know what is wrong and why this is happeneing. I am now reloading XP again, as I have screwed with it enough that I am sure a few things are still stuck in it.

The videos worked fine before, without issue, so I have no idea what the hell the problem is. I load FFDshow, and it's choppy, I load K-lite... choppy, it's just damn frustrating now.

Thanks if anyone wants to give me a try. I really need to finish this. I have my daughters B-Day party next week, and everyone is expecting to play this thing as they do every year. It would suck to have it turned off.

IMBerzerk

I too have had the same problem with choppy video with some of the emumovies sets.

I use the FFDshow codec pack from the downloads (2005) and the stand-alone XVid codec.

All works fine for me!

But... When changing codecs, you must make sure you clean out all the old codecs you have installed first - these will interfere.

[IMBerzerk]

I too have had the same problem with choppy video with some of the emumovies sets.

I use the FFDshow codec pack from the downloads (2005) and the stand-alone XVid codec.

All works fine for me!

But... When changing codecs, you must make sure you clean out all the old codecs you have installed first - these will interfere.

Thanks Flash, what do you use to remove the old Codec? Just uninstall them?

I am going to google that XVid codec and see what comes up. I have the FFDshow pack from the main website. Did you go in and tweak anything? That's another issue I think I am creating, is that I am tweaking everything now out of frustration, and causing even more problems. I'd just like to know the baseline setup that works... dafault?

[greatflash]

Thanks Flash, what do you use to remove the old Codec? Just uninstall them?

I am going to google that XVid codec and see what comes up. I have the FFDshow pack from the main website. Did you go in and tweak anything? That's another issue I think I am creating, is that I am tweaking everything now out of frustration, and causing even more problems. I'd just like to know the baseline setup that works... dafault?

The standard uninstallers should work fine.

When installing ffdshow, I always use the defaults for the install.

Then install the xvid codec.

This appears to work great for me both on my main vista machine and on the xp laptops.

Yes, changing loads of stuff to try and get it working will make things worse.. Clean out and start from scratch.

[IMBerzerk]

The standard uninstallers should work fine.

When installing ffdshow, I always use the defaults for the install.

Then install the xvid codec.

This appears to work great for me both on my main vista machine and on the xp laptops.

Yes, changing loads of stuff to try and get it working will make things worse.. Clean out and start from scratch.

Well... no good. I've come to realize that I think I was lucky somehow the first time. From the past front-ends I had loaded, I must have had something in it somewhere that was allowing it to run right. So.. I've decided to fall back, regroup and attack from the flank (I play way too many WWII FPS's).

I went out on the I-net and found this great and free converter called Super. I'm converting them all to Xvid codecs which will make them smaller and not loose much quality. I've tested 11 so far and the results are great! Plus there are no 'watermarks' on the videos. Some free programs do that.

So with that, in a few hours, if not less, I'll have it all covered. I'll let you know how I make out, but it looks good so far... just more time.

Thanks for all your help as always.

IMBerzerk