Video lag on ALL MEDIA PLAYERS, please help!

[ap0calyptic]

so I've been having this issue on my laptop for about a month now. It just started one day and even after reinstalling windows 2 days ago, the problem is still there.

Whenever I watch a movie any video format including high quality, mkv files my video lags, the picture just freezes, gets choppy, the sound continues to work, but video is freezing and eventually I have no other solution than click pause/play a few times, so the picture and sound gets correct again. I don't know what the problem could be, but every player does it, VLC, KMplayer, RealPlayer, WMP,MPHC, so please help me as it's driving me crazy here.

Here's what codecs I have installed if that is of any help,

K-Lite Codec Pack Full
Combined Community Pack
CoreAVC Professional Edition 1.9.5
SRS Audio Sandbox (to amplify sound on my laptop when I watch movies without headphones)

I don't think any of the codecs is causing it, cause I had only K-Lite codec pack installed 2 days ago and I still had video lag, so any idea what it could be?

here's also my laptop specs:

Technical Specifications of MSI CX605 :
Screen 15.6”WXGA HD (1366 × 768) Processor Intel Core 2 Duo RAM Installed (Max) max 4 GB DDR2 667/800 MHz, 2 slots storage space 160/250/320/500 GB Graphics Card ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 1GB DDR3 dedicated Optical Drive DVD Audio System 2 speakers Webcam 1.3 Megapixels with microphone Network Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n + Ethernet Bluetooth Optional Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Card Reader 4 in 1 Output (s) video HDMI, VGA Fingerprint Reader Non Input (s) / Output (s) Headset, Microphone ExpressCard Non Firewire Non USB 3 USB 2.0 Operating System 7 Windows Home Premium Battery Li-Ion 6-cell Autonomy announced Non Dimensions (mm) 374 x 247.5 x 18-35 Weight 2.48 Kg (with battery)

 

[Maguscreed]

It's not a codec problem VLC doesn't use codecs unless you specifically tell it too.

a quick note on that though, you want either cccp or klite, not both, they WILL conflict with each other. I suggest scrubbing them both and picking one.
CoreAVC is most useful with nvidia cards because of CUDA and probably isn't going to be a lot of help with the ati card.

Seeing as this is a laptop my first suggestion is to turn full power mode on. Running with normal laptop power mode settings is going to degrade video performance noticeably.

 

[ap0calyptic]

It's not a codec problem VLC doesn't use codecs unless you specifically tell it too.

a quick note on that though, you want either cccp or klite, not both, they WILL conflict with each other. I suggest scrubbing them both and picking one.
CoreAVC is most useful with nvidia cards because of CUDA and probably isn't going to be a lot of help with the ati card.

Seeing as this is a laptop my first suggestion is to turn full power mode on. Running with normal laptop power mode settings is going to degrade video performance noticeably.

ok then if I remove CCCP the thing I'm concerned about is whether SRS Audio sandbox will still give me an option to use it wih my normal speaker configuration...otherwise I'll just have to get rid of K-lite. Which one's better tho?

well if I don't have coreavc my .mkv files get laggy...I don't know if k-lite only can handle .mkv wih its codecs?

oh and about full power you probably mean power plans 'high performance/power saver/balanced' no?

I currently have power saver choosen on both options - on battery and adapter plugged in...should I choose high performance then for when I have it plugged in?
tho it still means when on battery probably video will still lag again since there I have power saver on, cause batery exhauses too fast?

 

[Maguscreed]

klite has more in it, but I have never had need for anything beyond the standard cccp set personally.
Klite mega becomes a little more useful if you are attempting to make a lot of stuff yourself. For playback cccp is much lighter and easier to deal with.
If your only concern is mkv's specifically, you can get just the matroska pack
Free-Codecs.com : Download Matroska Pack Full 1.1.2, Matroska Pack Lite 1.1.2 and Matroska Pack MPEG4 1.0.3

and yes, high performance when it's plugged in. Your choice on whether to do it when the batteries are on, it will drastically reduce battery life though.

 

[ap0calyptic]

klite has more in it, but I have never had need for anything beyond the standard cccp set personally.
Klite mega becomes a little more useful if you are attempting to make a lot of stuff yourself. For playback cccp is much lighter and easier to deal with.
If your only concern is mkv's specifically, you can get just the matroska pack
Free-Codecs.com : Download Matroska Pack Full 1.1.2, Matroska Pack Lite 1.1.2 and Matroska Pack MPEG4 1.0.3

and yes, high performance when it's plugged in. Your choice on whether to do it when the batteries are on, it will drastically reduce battery life though.

thank you. I've unninstalled CoreAVC and kept K-lite and CCCP only because of the audio codecs for SRS Audio Sandbox, so I really hope those two won't interact.
I've installed the Matroska pack, so hopefully now all will work okay with high performance as power option on.

 

[DanksFoSho]

I'm actually having the same issue and still cant get it figured out. I only use vlc, Zune, And Windows media player for videos. In zune the movie just freezes for a bit and the sounds keeps up then it unfreezes, in vlc and windows it actually comes up boxish and pixlemalated. Ive tried to download new codecs but that didn't work, i tried re-installing windows on a new formated drive and that didn't help. I'm running out of ideas.

I have a dell 1735 studio laptop.
2.1 g dual possessor
3 gigs of ram.

 

[Maguscreed]

I don't know if this is part of your issue or not, but many sources recommend a 2.4ghz dual core or better for HD playback, and you are just under that threshold. Does this occur regardless of the video quality.?

 

[DanksFoSho]

To be honest idk if there HD quality to begin with, There mostly avi and some mpeg-4. I have tried converting to HD but nothing woks, ive tried to convert to compressed and it still dont work. Funny thing is that i didnt have a problem when i was running windows vista before on the same system.

I have a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5850 @ 2.16 Ghz
3 Gb or ram.

 

[Maguscreed]

To be honest idk if there HD quality to begin with, There mostly avi and some mpeg-4. I have tried converting to HD but nothing woks, ive tried to convert to compressed and it still dont work. Funny thing is that i didnt have a problem when i was running windows vista before on the same system.

I have a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5850 @ 2.16 Ghz
3 Gb or ram.

I'm guessing you have a outdated system driver or something. The honest truth is win 7 is faster and more stable than vista. So if it worked with vista and doesn't with win7 the only thing I can think of is you are dealing with some outdated drivers, video/audio/chipset.

 

[DanksFoSho]

I ran driver genius 10.0 and it updated everything and gave me the what i should have.

 

[Maguscreed]

I ran driver genius 10.0 and it updated everything and gave me the what i should have.

You know I have never had one of those auto driver apps work properly for me...

 

[DanksFoSho]

i went under my device manager and the only thing that has an issue is my card reader which isnt a problem.

 

[Maguscreed]

Well I'm at the end of my little check list here, without something more solid to work with. Just keep in mind, just because a device doesn't show a problem doesn't mean the driver is fine.

About the last thing I can suggest is running a full defrag on the drive and seeing if the video clears up. You should let it play for a minute or two without skipping around or anything before determining that it's problematic. Some systems are just slower to get the stream up.

Sadly that's the end of what I have for you. That and disabling the more advanced windows theme support. Which will open up more display resources for video playback.

 

[tyroperegrine]

Video Lag

Recently my dell Studio 1735 laptop has been glitchy & pixilated as neted in another post.
I tried running only the VLC program when the problem occurs but, have limited success; I also doubled virtual memory cache.