Yes, this codec is still AROUND. If I may be frank, anybody still using it is being accidentally boneheaded and should change their ways. It will not work fully. You must move on. You are wasting your time.
Reencode to ANY other codec. If it’s an Indeo codec, give up now. Please don’t waste your time.
You can reencode it to a WMV on the old machine using Movie Maker or the Windows Media Encoder. That should work fine.
You can reencode it to an AVI that uses a different codec on the old machine using any AVI editing tool. That should work fine too.
Doubtful. I’ll keep pointing out that the Indeo codec is broken and that you should stop using it immediately. When you listen to that advice and reencode the content to use ANY other non-Indeo codec, you’re going to find that this works soooooo much better and all your problems here will be gone.
It is utterly impossible to make the Indeo codec work fully. I’m not kidding. You are wasting your time.
Can anyone help…My PC always goes slow everynight, Net goes slow, When I boot up programs like Photosutie 4, V. Memery always low every dam night…Firefox loads slow but not Netscape…
Dell Dimention 4300…
Windows XP Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2
P4 CPU 1400MHz
1.40 GHz, 256 MB of RAM
256mb is weak-sauce. It’s super cheap to get a gig stick of RAM. Do it.
And yes, you do have things running. Otherwise you’d be staring at a blank screen. I don’t remember if Home has Task Manager, but turn on Mem Usage, VM Size, Handles, Threads, and the GDI Objects columns in Task Manager’s Processes tab to check out what’s being more piggy. If you don’t have Task Manager, I think you can get Process Manager from the Microsoft web site, that’s a pretty awesome tool too.
Oh don’t worry I am not dedicated to that craptacular codec… I knew very little about the problem, but if it’s that easy to just reencode the file, well then yes I agree and I will drop the current codec.
Preppy thanks for your input man. I appreciate it. Tech Talk forum FTW:woot:
Virtual RAM is a scam rip off. It’s just another way of doing something you could do yourself, but really doesn’t make much of a dent if you have a low amount of physical RAM because hard drive transfer rate is super slow compared to RAM.
I built this computer a few weeks ago, and until a few days ago it was running fine. Now, sometimes, when I try to play a game, I can’t get past the opening menus. Once the actual 3D part of a game loads up, like the levels, the comp hard freezes and I have to shut the power off.
It doesn’t happen every time, and I don’t know if it’s going to happen or not until I get into a game and try it. But it’s getting annoying to have to reboot two or three times and cross my fingers every time I want to play a game.
It started happening a few nights ago when I got an eSATA drive and hooked it up to the PC. I thought maybe Windows was “confused” with the new hardware addition, so I removed the drive and haven’t used it since. Yet it continues to happen from time to time even without the drive. I don’t know if it was just a coincidence that it started with the eSATA or what.
Any ideas? I’m going to run Memtest tonight, but I’ve ran it before right after building the PC and it worked fine then. Don’t know why anything would be different now.
Try the latest drivers for your video card. Does it only lock up in games? If so I’d tend to think it’s a vid card issue.
I have my own question. I have an old self-built machine. The mobo is the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe w/ nForce 2. I recently got a new HDD, installed WinXP, and everything’s good. However, I can’t find my old mobo driver disc, and the nForce 2 legacy drivers that nVidea provides cause problems.
If I install them all including the SATA driver (I’m not using any SATA drives, though), the system hangs on boot, and I have to boot to the last good configuration. If I skip the SATA driver and install the rest, I get no sound (I’m using the mobo’s onboard sound). I ended up having to uninstall all the nVidia drivers (except ForceWare for my GeForce 6800 GT) and using Windows Update to find a nVidia audio driver for the audio. Which is all well and good… but my benchmark tests have dipped from before, and my old HDD had all the mobo drivers installed. (I use 3DMark03, and yes that’s how old the system is. I used to get over 10,000, but now I’m around the 7800 mark.)
You know, I did check before, but something I didn’t notice until just now is that they have an older version of the nForce drivers (nVidia’s site only has the latest version), so I’m going to try those tonight.
No I haven’t checked for the latest drivers. But I haven’t changed drivers since I built the PC, and like I said it was working fine for the first few weeks. Although maybe some Windows updates caused some sort of driver incompatibility, I dunno.
And yes it only COMPLETELY locks up in games, but it seems like Windows animations are a little choppy too when that is going to happen. It’s hard to tell though, it’s very subtle. The only in-my-face obvious issue is when the games completely lock up.
I have a couple of questions about Vista - I have 4 on-board USB ports. One of them goes to my keyboard, one goes to my wireless mouse(the base of it). I also have a PS/2 mouse that I play my games with, games such as unreal tournament or whatever. However, when I plug in my PS/2 mouse and my USB mouse before starting up, only my PS/2 mouse will work. The only way the USB mouse will work is if I restart my computer without the PS/2 mouse plugged in. Additionally, I have a USB WiFi adapter that I used with XP to connect my Wii/DS to the internet, but since I installed Vista, it just doesn’t work. I’ve alternated ports so I know the USB ports work. What am I doing wrong here? When I try to install the software, it asks me to plug in the adapter to the usb port, but nothing happens. no light, no anything.
Sometimes in the sytem tray down there in Vista… a little notification pops up telling me Windows can find solutions to my problems. How do I get to that window without the little system tray notification?
Thanks Preppy. The reason I asked was because I wanted to get to it without logging on my admin account. Unfortunately I had to anyway, because the errors weren’t there on my Standard account. shrug
If you’ll notice in the second picture, it shows the first 9 or so problems all happening at the same time/date. That definately isn’t the case, so I’m not sure what that’s all about. Maybe that’s when the errors were “logged,” that being when I got on my admin account.
And although Windows is claiming it to be a driver issue… Is that likely? As I mentioned, I haven’t changed the driver at all since I first built the computer weeks ago, and it was working fine until recently. If I’m not mistaken, the Intel ICH9 is the chipset on the mobo that controls RAID and/or multiple hard drives. So was it possibly in fact related to when I added the eSATA drive after all? What the gay?
Yes. Just because something does NOT always fail doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a problem. It’s extremely likely that when you get some advice from that channel that it’s spot-on. I think the bar for providing advice via that channel is maybe too high, but it’s good to not confuse people needlessly.
Do what now? I was with you until you said confusing peeople needlessly. Good job cofusing me! =p
And what does the ICH9 do? Was I right about its purpose?
And on a side note, I’ve been trying to help tondashocka as well. How does he go about re-encoding that file? Could he use something like virtualdub? He would still need to actually be able to successfully open the file first though, right? So his wife maybe could use virtualdub and re-encode it. Or is there a simpler way?
