Dazzer
10-01-04, 05:04 AM
If I play certain dixv files (*.avi format) on my notebook, no matter if I use Windows Media Player or WinDVD 6, I receive an error in the form of 'Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for hte inconvenience.'
This occurs as soon as I attempt to play the file. The strange thing is I can hear the audio, but don't see a picture, and the movie plays the audio until I either click on 'Send Error Report' or 'Don't Send', after which the program automatically closes.
I have installed the dvix driver from divx-digest.org (file divx_3.11alpha.zip), but that has not helped.
What is really strange is the movies that won't play on my notebook will play on my desktop without a problem and both machines are pretty much identical regards the software they run, which is Windows XP Pro with SP2.
The notebook is a re-badge Arima notebook, I bought from TPG (see it at www.tpg.com.au/online/). It has an AMD 2200+ Processor, onboard Radeon GPU, and 512mb RAM.
My desktop has an Intel 3.0Ghz CPU, ASUS mobo, and 1gig RAM.
I have installed the divx codec a couple of times, but I'm not sure what else to try. The notebook plays DVDs, SVCDS from a drive or when mounted in a virtual drive. The notebook only has a problem when it trys to play straight movie files (i.e. single file), but it does not have a problem with every movie file, just some. And it is not always a divx file either; I recently had a problem with an mpeg file.
Any ideas what the problem may be and what I can try to do about it?
Cheers
Dazz
This occurs as soon as I attempt to play the file. The strange thing is I can hear the audio, but don't see a picture, and the movie plays the audio until I either click on 'Send Error Report' or 'Don't Send', after which the program automatically closes.
I have installed the dvix driver from divx-digest.org (file divx_3.11alpha.zip), but that has not helped.
What is really strange is the movies that won't play on my notebook will play on my desktop without a problem and both machines are pretty much identical regards the software they run, which is Windows XP Pro with SP2.
The notebook is a re-badge Arima notebook, I bought from TPG (see it at www.tpg.com.au/online/). It has an AMD 2200+ Processor, onboard Radeon GPU, and 512mb RAM.
My desktop has an Intel 3.0Ghz CPU, ASUS mobo, and 1gig RAM.
I have installed the divx codec a couple of times, but I'm not sure what else to try. The notebook plays DVDs, SVCDS from a drive or when mounted in a virtual drive. The notebook only has a problem when it trys to play straight movie files (i.e. single file), but it does not have a problem with every movie file, just some. And it is not always a divx file either; I recently had a problem with an mpeg file.
Any ideas what the problem may be and what I can try to do about it?
Cheers
Dazz