Hi, I'm not sure if this request is best entered into this forum or another, still... I'm at my wits end. I'm working on a Windows 2000 which has been crashing periodically when playing certain xvid or divx encoded videos for the past week. This happens when using media player classic and the crash is immediate without any video playing whatsoever, but doesn't happen when using VLC player...odd. And when it crashes, it brings down the whole machine with an instant reboot. OK, I can use VLC player, no problem, but when I need to use VirtualDubMod, I can load the files and split them, but when i try to save the split halves (direct stream copy, no re-encoding)... same thing, instant - instant - crash/reboot. I've uninstalled all the codecs I can find and re-installed the k-lite codec pack. The crashes happen whether I try to play the videos using xvid, dx50, divx6, or ffdshow's codecs...BUT, only a handful of new videos will cause this, the older videos (year or more in age, various codecs) will play fine without disaster. OTOH, any avi video WILL trigger the VirtualDubMod instant crash/reboot. The video card is an Nvidia 5200, and we had some big problems with a driver update in july, and reverted back to an earlier driver and it seemed to have fixed things (different probs than what i'm currently experiencing). I really have no idea where to go from here... any ideas? Is is the driver again? Any help would be ver appreciated, and if i'm posting in the wrong forum or if you guys can suggest a better site (doom9, etc) for this kind of quandry, could you point me in the right direction? Thanks Much!
Up until about 4 or 5 months ago, my work computer had Win2000 installed. I had FFDShow AC3Filter DivX & XviD and didn't have a problem with any files. For the record I use the same setup with XP and still no problems reading/playing and files.
