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[Jonbo298]

Have you tried ripping the movies/storing them on the computer and not running it off the cd's? And I'm guessing your using the divx player too.

btw, what format are the anime in? avi, mpeg, etc...

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Have you tried ripping the movies/storing them on the computer and not running it off the cd's? And I'm guessing your using the divx player too.

btw, what format are the anime in? avi, mpeg, etc...

Yeah, I have tried ripping them, and it doesnt help, and yeah, I'm using the divX player. They are in .avi format.

[Jonbo298]

Try playing the movies in Windows Media Player to see what happens. This'll help eliminate a few possible causes

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Try playing the movies in Windows Media Player to see what happens. This'll help eliminate a few possible causes

When I try to play it in Windows Media Player, it starts to load up, but it continues to say "opening" in the bottom, but it never actually opens. Then when I hold down ctrl, alt, delete, it says that Windows Media Player is not responding. So it just continues to say "opening" and nothing ever happens. It is an old version of Windows Media Player, but I dont see how that would affect it not playing correctly on the divX player.

[Jonbo298]

I was checking to make sure it wasn't something weird with your computer not rendering the video correctly. I'd recommend upgrading the Media Player (since its not liking the opening of the avi files for some reason) and vid. card drivers if you can. Other then that, maybe uninstlal/reinstall divx player. If that doesnt work, then find a way to use a different player to see if the .avi files work fine.

[GT News]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I was checking to make sure it wasn't something weird with your computer not rendering the video correctly. I'd recommend upgrading the Media Player (since its not liking the opening of the avi files for some reason) and vid. card drivers if you can. Other then that, maybe uninstlal/reinstall divx player. If that doesnt work, then find a way to use a different player to see if the .avi files work fine.

Where were you checking to make sure it was not something weird with your computer not rendering the video correctly?I will take that under advisement.Ask me another question.
Which others? Interesting deduction. "Are you a student" maybe uninstlalreinstall divx player ?
I understand.I'm not sure if it could.Are you a man or a woman?

[Hero2]

Originally Posted by CamFuBot

Where were you checking to make sure it was not something weird with your computer not rendering the video correctly?I will take that under advisement.Ask me another question.
Which others? Interesting deduction. "Are you a student" maybe uninstlalreinstall divx player ?
I understand.I'm not sure if it could.Are you a man or a woman?

Yea I think hes got me beat on grammer. But I still spell worse.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I was checking to make sure it wasn't something weird with your computer not rendering the video correctly. I'd recommend upgrading the Media Player (since its not liking the opening of the avi files for some reason) and vid. card drivers if you can. Other then that, maybe uninstlal/reinstall divx player. If that doesnt work, then find a way to use a different player to see if the .avi files work fine.

Ok, I'll go try this out. I'll have to download a newer version of windows media player on this computer first, because my old one doesnt have any interent access. I'll get back to on how it works out.

[Cyrax9]

Ok guys, I’m going to need a bit of help here, let me explain:

I’ve nearly completed my Windows ME/RH Linux Workstation Dual-Boot system using a RAID-1 Array (Mirroring) for extra data protection. Windows is installed and takes up about half of the RAID-1 Array as planned; everything is working fine, well almost everything.

PROBLEM: RHL Workstation doesn’t seem to have a compatible driver for my VIA 6410 RAID Controller card, which is housed on my Asus P4P800 DELUXE MoBo. This is the STONE IN MY SHOE so to speak, EVERYTHING else is WORKING, all other parts ARE COMPATIBLE with RHL Workstation, and now I’m stuck and I need your help!

I’m contacting RH at www.Redhat.com I’m contacting Asus as www.Asus.com and I’m contacting VIA at www.viaarena.com to try and find a working driver. I’ve come VERY CLOSE to success, I have a way to patch the kernel but I hear it’s a bit risky so I don’t want to do that just yet. I have a Driver for my 6410 RAID device, but it’s for RHL 7 and was compiled with a VERSION 2 compiler – NOT a VERSION 3 compiler and presents the error message that the two compilers are incompatible. Needless to say I DO NOT have the source code or I’d just recompile the driver made for RHL 7.2 but:

1. It’s the "wrong" driver, and…
2. It’s not worth a thing if I don’t have SOURCE CODE to recompile!

As you can see I’m desperate, I need YOUR HELP to get this thing working, all that’s standing between me a finished PC now is a driver! If you USE LINUX, or know of a site with LINUX DRIVERS that has one for my RAID Controller, PLEASE reply! I’m a bit annoyed as you might have guessed I KNOW Linux runs though, because it’s currently sitting on a LOANED HARD DRIVE from my tech friend who’s helping me with this.

Anything useful, no matter how insignificant it seems is helpful, if I need to pay for the driver that’s fine too, I just need to get this working. I’ve got a spot set up on the RAID Array for ‘Nix but… no driver, no Linux!

Thank you all in advance for your help ;

(A very stressed and aggravated) Cyrax9

PS This is kind of sad coming form the former Mod of the computers forum, isn't it? (Hey, even some of the best need help at times. Oh and from what I DID get to do in Linux -- screw with the Terminal, I already like it! Now, I just need it to run on the RAID Array)

[Jonbo298]

I was reading on the first thing I saw on a linux forum at viaarea.com and the person that is the rep. for via says they are still developing it. Funny how I saw that the thread is still around since july 2003, lol. I'm trying to see if there is such a driver, and I've had no luck yet

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Ok, I'll go try this out. I'll have to download a newer version of windows media player on this computer first, because my old one doesnt have any interent access. I'll get back to on how it works out.

Ok, so before I downloaded WMP, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the divX player for a third time. This time, by some twist of fate in the laws of physics and nature in the universe, it worked. DivX player doesnt like to play the files, but now WMP (the one I already had installed) decided to get smart or something and start working.

Thank's a bunch, Jonbo.

[Jonbo298]

Cool, no problem. I myself have been having a problem with some video's playing right because it makes some (not all) videos have a green overlay on it in WMP. After I turned video acceleration off, it was perfect. I still have no clue why it does that. One of these times ill reformat by computer but I have way to many things to just do it right now

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

umm...anyone know the run command to get the the window that lets you pick which programs should or shouldn't run at startup? thanks

[Null]

Originally Posted by GiMpY-wAnNaBe

umm...anyone know the run command to get the the window that lets you pick which programs should or shouldn't run at startup? thanks

its already been said in this topic..... msconfig

[The Germanator]

Hey...I'm not sure how this would work, but would anybody willing to send me an microsoftword.exe file over AIM? I have Wordperfect as my word processor, but a crappy printer so I can't print from my computer. The computers at the library have Microsoft word, but for some reason they refuse to convert my WordPerfect document to the MicroSoft Word program so I can't print...if you know of anyway I can get MSWord or anyway to solve the WP to Word conversion problem it'd be much appreciated.