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Recommend Movie Player? Media player skipping...

  • 05-11-2003 9:51pm
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Can anyone recommend a decent program to play movie files, mostly avi and mpg? Why I've no idea why, but media player keeps f**king up, the sounds goes out of sync with the video. I've tried Crystal player which is better but still does it sometimes.
    I've searched download.com but there is so much crap that comes up its hard to find somethign reliable... Any suggestions?

    Someone else suggested it may be my PC. Sometimes I need to restart to stop it skipping etc, but last time I reformatted it was doing the same. Its a Dell Dimension 4550, 2Ghz, 768ram, 120gb - so reason why it can't keep up.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    BoB_BoT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭BoB_BoT


    could your files be out of sync?
    anywho give media player classic a try, or real alternative, they look like windows media player basic, but are great no-nonsence players.


  • #3
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Defraggedyour hard drive lately?


  • #4
    antwalsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭antwalsh


    I use BSPlayer www.bsplayer.org


  • #5
    Chowley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Chowley


    Im having strange problems with media player too.

    Some CD's seem to be playing too slowly, its very annoying I throw the CD into the head unit in my car or another CD player and its fine.


  • #6
    PPC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭PPC


    Get the latest klite codec pack and there is a plugin that lets you sync the audio and video


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  • #7
    Col_Loki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Col_Loki


    Try using Divx player , i have the same problem sometimes....... media player is really annoying sometimes like that. Install the codecs again including older ones (sometimes the newer ones dont play the older rips as well) .


  • #8
    adeypius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭adeypius


    VideoLan Client plays everything

    http://www.videolan.org/


    The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...


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