I have had problems recently playing all sorts of files (.avi .asf .mp4 mostly) in my VLC player at home on my laptop. Older .avi files I have on my hard drive played fine when I did a check to see if it was a problem with VLC.
So, some .avi files play fine, some don't.
Also some recently downloaded .asf and .mp4 files have played fine on my laptop in VLC (the newest, I just uninstalled and re-installed it, 8.0.6f I think) while other .asf and .mp4 files don't play properly.
"OK, so maybe it's codec related or a problem with those files that aren't playing" I figured. Burned them to disc, took them to work, installed the latest VLC on a PC at work and.... both .mp4 and and .asf files that hadn't worked at home played absolutely perfectly on the same vesion of VLC!
Problems with the VLC player at home are...
-Starts out fine.
-Picture severely slows down, becomes pixilated and eventually freezes
-The audio continues to play fine
I have gone in and deleted all other media players on my laptop and co-dec packs that had been previously installed. Thinking that there may be a conflict between players and/or codecs.
Is it safe to rule out my VLC player and the files as the problem?
I'm starting to think it's a problem with my laptop.
I run a microsoft XP OS. Recently (for a few months now I guess) it sometimes freezes up on me and I have had to bring it down hard several times. Other times its response is VERY slow. Yet other times it seems to work just fine.
Where do I go from here?
Sorry for such a long post, but I figure details are a good thing.
Yeah, I stumbled on that a bit after I had posted. I went home, tried it and it still didn't work.
Thanks for the link though.
As my username suggests...
If I was to re-install the video drivers had I may as well go ahead and re-install the OS and everything?
A friend changed my original OS from Japanese to English. Only problem was (as I understand it) this laptop was meant to ONLY be used with a Japanese OS. A week later after searching everywhere, he finally found drivers for most everything.
Would re-installing the drivers be another ordeal?
Generally download appropriate drivers for the card.
Uninstall the existing drivers from the Control Panel and install the download.
Doesn't take long.
I thought I would check back in to let people know that my problem is solved. Unfortunately there were severe hardware problems. Not the answer I wanted to hear, but now I have a new desktop.
