First I would like to thank everyone in this forum - I recently upgraded to Vista 64 and have gotten a lot of help from some of the threads here. This problem though I haven't been able to find a solution for anywhere.
Basically, whenever I play an avi file the video player will freeze up within 5-10 minutes of playback. It's not always the same time, and sometimes it makes it a half hour or so before freezing. It doesn't freeze up the whole system, just the video player. Also, if I let it go and don't do anything, it will eventually resume playback, but jump forward about 2 or 3 minutes into the video.
I've tried Media Player, VLC, Nero Showtime, Winamp, and Divx Player so far, all with the same results. I also tried installing the Vista Codec Pack 5.09 and x64 Components 1.63 (both individually and together) and still nothing different. I've also upgraded my video drivers to the latest version (nVidia 181.20) and rolled back to 180.84 to test those. Nada.
Here's my rig:
nForce 680i LT mobo
Q6700 @ 2.66
Geforce 8600 GTS 512mb
Ultra 600 watt PSU
Vista Ultimate x64 SP 1
I don't really think it's a hardware issue - I took my video card and my harddrive from my old PC and never had a problem like this. Also, I'm not getting any issues like this with any other applications or games. Streaming video, from hulu, justin . tv, etc., works perfectly fine, this issue seems limited to .avi files encoded with Divx stored on my computer.
This is really driving me crazy, so if anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
Basically, whenever I play an avi file the video player will freeze up within 5-10 minutes of playback. It's not always the same time, and sometimes it makes it a half hour or so before freezing. It doesn't freeze up the whole system, just the video player. Also, if I let it go and don't do anything, it will eventually resume playback, but jump forward about 2 or 3 minutes into the video.
I've tried Media Player, VLC, Nero Showtime, Winamp, and Divx Player so far, all with the same results. I also tried installing the Vista Codec Pack 5.09 and x64 Components 1.63 (both individually and together) and still nothing different. I've also upgraded my video drivers to the latest version (nVidia 181.20) and rolled back to 180.84 to test those. Nada.
Here's my rig:
nForce 680i LT mobo
Q6700 @ 2.66
Geforce 8600 GTS 512mb
Ultra 600 watt PSU
Vista Ultimate x64 SP 1
I don't really think it's a hardware issue - I took my video card and my harddrive from my old PC and never had a problem like this. Also, I'm not getting any issues like this with any other applications or games. Streaming video, from hulu, justin . tv, etc., works perfectly fine, this issue seems limited to .avi files encoded with Divx stored on my computer.
This is really driving me crazy, so if anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks!