Video files so slow now..

[James828]

Hi, this PC's specs are as follows, 667mhz, 128MB RAM, 8MB graphic card.

For some reason now i can't play any videos properly without them skipping or playing very slow...
The weird thing is, I was using this PC before i was using my sister's when she wasn't using it, and it played videos files (even divX movies), and now that my sister got her computer back and i formatted this and installed windows 98SE back on it, it's having problems playing videos.
First problem was when i was trying to play a .wmv video clip in an old version of windows media player and that was skipping and playing slow.

So I installed VLC and that also plays the file slow and skippy but also with a a blue tint over the picture.

I tried playing a VCD just before in VLC and that also played the video very skippy and slow, but the colour was fine i think.

Any idea why it's like this all of a sudden? should i download other codecs? (I thought VLC has most of the main codecs in them?)

I'm downloading windows media player series 9 at the moment and will see if that plays them any better...

thanks in advanced.

[The DJ]

1: Upgrade video drivers and directX installation
2: Make sure your video card settings aren't too high (leaving no videocard memory for VLC to do the drawing of the video).

[James828]

Could it have something to do with that i recently installed an ethernet card into the computer, and apparantly there's not enough IRQ resources and a audioPCI legacy device doesn't work according to the device manager, but the sound works fine on this computer.

Also when i start up the computer and it lists the PCI devices for the Multimedia device it has NA next to it instead of a number like the rest of them do.

[James828]

You say update directX...since i just recently formatted and installed windows 98SE on here i haven't had a chance to install directX, do you think that could be it?

I'm downloading the latest version now...

[James828]

arrgh, i can't get a break, i just downloaded directx 9, and then during the installation it said "a cabinet file cannot be trusted" and it cancelled the installation, what the hell?!