alchrisr01 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I am adding a projector this year and was going through the configurations today and found that I have a video issue with my show laptop. When I play a video, the audio and video are not in sync. The video drags or sticks. I tried running Windows Update and that did not fix it. I rolled back to Media Player 9 and the situation did improve but still no dice. The same video will play fine on my other pc's so I don't believe the file is the issue. I have the same WMP (WMP11) on all pc's and the configurations are the same as far as I can tell. I think I have an issue either with the video card or WMP or both. The show laptop is an HP ZE4400 running XP sp3, AMD Athelon XP2200+ at 1.05GHz, 448 mb ram, and a Radeon IGP 320M card. I know this laptop is old and weak but it should be capable of playing video on WMP and outputting to the projector. I am using S3 and acutually have the projector running as the second monitor with no issues except for video playback.. The projector shows the screens as it should and with the black background seems to work pretty darn good. I tried everything out with my newer Win7 laptop and everything works perfect. I have spent all day searching and working and still don't have this fixed. Some of you still use XP and I was hoping somebody out there has an idea, otherwise I may have to upgrade the laptop!Thanks,Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchrisr01 Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 No ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EARLE W. TALLEY Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Is you mp3 file fixed bit? If not run it thru Audacity and make it 128 fixed bit.Earle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 How much RAM on the new laptop?And does the old one really have 448mb? There is a part of me that would be suspect of that laptop being able to handle the video as well as the newer laptop (which I'm guessing has much more RAM to it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchrisr01 Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Thanks guys, the older laptop actually has 512mb ram, as I posted I remembered that windows does not always report acutal RAM and 448 is not even a real number for RAM. I have done some more experiments and am beginning to suspect Any Video Converter (the program I have been using) as a possible problem as I will have problems with my new laptop as well with some video running in MWP. BTW, it has 3gb of RAM. The wireless card on my daughters laptop went out again so I just bought her a new laptop and will format her old one and make a show PC out of it. I don't need internet on it anyway to run the show. It is a Win7 64bit with comparable specs to my newer Win7 laptop. I still want to figue this issue out though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchrisr01 Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 I did a little more experimenting and have come to the conclusion that it is a software issue with Any video Converter. Earle's comment on bitrate got me to checking and that would explain the video issue (audio is fine). The video bitrate has some sort of issue. The program has options to change the bitrate, so I did but not a lot of success. I downloaded Freemake that I read about on another thread and it converted the files much better. BTW I should mention that I rip the DVD using DVDShrink 2 which produces .VOB files and then edit and convert files to .wmv for use with LOR. I would be curious what progams others are using to do this.Thankschris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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