Half Life 2 video troubles

2005-02-12 05:15:27 pm

What is this "Personal Text" you speak of?  Hmm!?

Having a bit of an issue with the Half Life 2 video speed run. It will play about half way through, then the visuals will freeze, but the sound will continue. If I click anywhere on the scroll bar, to skip ahead, audio then stops and I continue to get no visuals.

Now, before you ask, I have XviD, DivX, tried this in updated Windows Media Player and in Winamp. Also tried re-downloading the zip file, but I got the exact same issue.

So, any suggestions for me?

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Mkt2015

2005-02-12 09:00:11 pm

MGS for PS1 forever.

You probably need more ram. I have 512 in my computer. Grin

Arstavial

2005-02-12 09:22:49 pm

What is this "Personal Text" you speak of?  Hmm!?

I have 768 MB of Ram. I don't think that is my problem.

Mandel

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Mandel: 2005-02-13 09:28:35 pm

2005-02-13 09:26:20 pm

Mumma

You could always try the ffdshow decoder. It replaces the divx and xvid decoders in mplayer and has a nice amount of settings you can fiddle with if you like. Without complaining, it has played everything I have thrown at it for the last couple of years.

Download the latest alpha from http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php

And heh, I don't see how the RAM amount has anything to do with this Cheesy

Arstavial

2005-02-13 09:55:19 pm

What is this "Personal Text" you speak of?  Hmm!?

Just downloaded/installed that ffdshow program, but sadly it had no effect on the video. Perhaps there are some settings I should tweak? I must admit, I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to different video settings/formats, and all that nonsense. Thanks for help so far.

Tub

2005-02-14 02:02:02 am

m00

I have these problems as well.

at 1:00:50 it freezes. Does it on my laptop, does it on my other computer. No matter what video codecs I use.

the interesting thing: it never happened to me with any other video file, but both the low- and the high-quality version of the second hl2-run freeze. Shocked

So, it might be a sound problem after all.

The weird thing is: it only fails on Media Player Classic, while Windows Media Player works fine Shocked

Gorash

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Gorash: 2005-02-14 12:42:26 pm

2005-02-14 12:41:57 pm

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Don't use Media Player Classic then Grin

SCNR

Mandel

2005-02-14 02:13:00 pm

Mumma

I tend to use media player 6.4 for everything. You probably have this program installed, try start->run and type mplayer2 and then OK

mplayer2 and ffdshow make a powerful pair!

Arstavial

2005-02-14 06:34:13 pm

What is this "Personal Text" you speak of?  Hmm!?

Same with Tub, this is the only file on SDA that is giving me this problem. Just tried the mplayer2 thing, but again at 1:00:50 the video feed stops.

Am I doing something wrong with ffdshow? Are there some settings I need to change? Why do the almighty Half Life 2 gods hate me?

Mandel

2005-02-14 08:41:31 pm

Mumma

No, nothing special...

Are you sure it's being used though? While playing a video, right click on it and choose properties. On the advanced tab, take a look at the used filters list. If it lists ffdshow MPEG 4 decoder, and not DivX, then the installation is successful. Otherwise you'll have to configure ffdshow somehow to replace the divx decoder, I bet it's obvious from the configuration program how that shall be done.

If that still doesn't help I don't know what possibly could be wrong... You'll have to borrow another computer and watch the run on that Grin

Arstavial

2005-02-14 09:09:17 pm

What is this "Personal Text" you speak of?  Hmm!?

The codec says its ffdshow MPEG-4, not DivX. Really odd that its having this problem...

So, any other suggestions? I suppose I could try other quality versions or something...but who knows.

myeah

2005-07-22 05:57:46 pm

downloaded 1.09gb for noyhing...really cool ****...get screwy at 1:00:50...and as far as i can see no one has a solution...

myeah

2005-07-22 06:05:51 pm

ignore my last post Cheesy

found a solution i guess Smiley

unistalled ace mcp and installed k-lite codec pack Smiley

works just fine now Cheesy

i owe myself a beer Cheesy