DivX player plus slows my PC down
The new update has not been a good thing it slows my computer down. It makes it so I can not shut it down without going into task manager and killing it. It takes about 2 minutes for my task manager to even come up. The mouse disappears at times. You should have tested it better before forcing us to the new version.
I gave the Plus Web Player (v.2.0.0.254) another try and - surprise! - it started to stream and I could watch embedded and fullscreen.
But, after a while, with just FF running and just this one tab in FF open, the CPU load went to an average of about 60-70% with peaks of 100 and the page file went to a size of about 2 GB. (I also thought about tightening my machine with screws into the floor since my CPU fan sounded like a helicopter. ;-)
I closed FF and re-opened exactly the same page with the stream and...nothing. The stream didn't start at all this time.
After closing the FF window with the stream the second FF window which I had opened in the meantime froze. Task Manager said „Not respondig“. This time I was patient. 20 minutes later I decided that's enough and killed it.
Everyone should just calm down and carefully go over my two new threads, that would solve the problems of almost everyone. Just make sure and read "Best Websites For The Divx Plus Web Player" then read and follow the instructions in my speed up post, to have the best DivX web streaming you ever had. Thank the DivX team because DivX Plus is so much nicer than the old one, I could be selling that information, but I've posted it for free, case closed.
Thank you for the advice, philochs, but since I'm not upset I don't have to calm down. I just wanted to tell DivX Labs about my experiences to help them to improve their products. That's the least I can do for using one of their's for free.
And thank you for your posts, too, but unfortunately the mentioned sites aren't helpful for me. Neither are RAM drives.
Are you a DivX Labs official to be legitimated to declare a case closed?
Hey Guys.
GeriB - I'm looking into the site you mention.
philochs - If there are problems we need to solve them for everybody in the main product. Your help in suggesting workarounds is welcome but we also need to get as much information as we can from people experiencing issues to resolve them quickly.
Websites and Ram Drives aren't helpful? Okay, then you may not be worth helping. DIY.
I don't know which planet you live on but on the one I live on web sites sometimes are not really helpful.
Please read carefully. I did not say „They are not helpful (at all)“. I'd rather said „They are not helpful for me“. You see the difference?
How helpful is a RAM drive with just 1 GB of memory in your machine?
Yes, I often DIM, most of the times with success. But, I can hardly imagine any reason why you decided to behave arrogant and rude.
I grew up un the cartoon Rude Dog, Animaniacs, Ren and Stimpy, The Simpsons rude is not in my vocabulary. Don't get your panties in a bunch, but eat my shorts. Try self examination, I worked damn hard to help all the cry babies. Um, 1 GB total RAM is plenty enough to do the super mod. I assume you use XP or Windows 7 though, because Vista may be too bloated on 1 GB by itself.
If you have XP or 7 with 1 GB total ram, then just make your RAM disk 400-500MB. Your sacrifice of that memory will be no big deal compared to the gains of running everything from ram. Fellow the steps to the tee. You could get away with only 300-400 mb. You'd just have to empty your bywifi share folder a lot, which no big deal. No matter what, you should do it, it will help you leaps and bounds. I can refresh google with no visible loading now. I can Buffer flash so fast. Your ISP MBS are wasted if you're not doing the mod, and 1 GB total RAM is plenty to do the mod. You should fo it it will help you so much. If you didn't like it, you can uninstall the ram disk, it's all free..., but think in literal terms the hard drive works in thousandths of a second. The Ram Drive works in billionths of a second. If you do the mode, you'll increase web browsing experience like 500% If you visit mostly the same usual favorite sites, then you can save firefox cache for them in ram drive, so that they always load right away. You wrote you were using old version firefox, get that minefield update, because it's got by far the fastest Java, it's the fastest version of Firefox, called Minefield, your setting update, you can keep all of your add ons too. Now don't say this doesn't help you, try it first.
The deal is, with such little RAM, you most likely have a very lousy CPU running maybe 32 bit xp or 64 bit, that's what limits you more, it craves two four, or six cores. Set your heart on an intel i9 6 core, with 12 GB DDR3 windows 7 baby. We'll all get it cheap used in a few years. Only by refurbished computers, you can get i7 and DDR3 for 500 now. Think i9 used in a year or two.
I can take a weak 1GB ram xp computer like that, one with less than 1 MBS web speed.
An AMD Athlon 64 processor can not stream youtube 1080p good at all. Weak ass CPU for Vista 64 home Premium with 2GB RAM. I have this second computer and the super mod works wonders on it, though it will work much better in windows 7, because Vista is more bloated than Fat Elvis. It still can't really chug out youtube 1080p due to cpu limits, but it can buffer the hell out of it. It can smoothly stream 720p and all DivX Plus web player stuff, it can play 1080p flash on non youtube sites. I only tested th new youtube 1080p in the new Resident video. The biggest issue still with Divx plus web player, is no acceleration of buffer like speed bit or bywifi for flash. I'm trying to work on that though. It's nothing DivX can do unless they partnered with Bywifi, which they should.
DivX guy did hint they will make it run even better soon. They might not be able to speed up buffering too much from their end, if they do though, that will be awesome.
They should surely know what needs to be worked on for Divx Plus Web Player 2.5 beta. Fingers crossed that they listen and deliver an even more amazing product.
Your question "How helpful is a RAM drive with just 1 GB of memory? in your machine?"
All that was the long answer, the short answer is "really really super awesome helpful" if you follow the super mod guide I made.
Bywifi
PP Live
Speed Bit
ezVAD
There have been four video accelerators, I have tested them all. The ezVAD accelerator is supposed to be much faster than Speed Bit and also accelerate buffering on all divx web player videos, sound promising, but even when I got the software running it didn't work and it messed up my web til I had to call my ISP and reset the SOCK code or something.
Meanwhile speed Bit suck major ass.
PPLIVE is very very good acceleration, it's just not quite as good as Bywifi, and you can only run one, too damn bad you can't double up on those.
I am the first soul that has thought to install bywifi in a RAM DISK , and then also the first person to put bywifi share, it's cache folder in the ram as well. Nobody did this, the creator and maker didn't even know about using a ramdisk til I told him. Now at my request, he has agreed to try and make Bywifi compatible with the DivX web player. Again, that would help everyone in the world. He then asked me where to find websites that play divx that he could use for testing, which I provided to him as well. That's how far I've taken it, that directly because of me, Bywifi will soon include support for the divx web player. This is something it drastically needs. The DivX web player has pathetic buffering, this would hands down solve that for all users with decent web speed. We don't all have 100MBS, but I bat that DivX Web Player still needs Bywifi on 100MBS because on 22 MBS down, with every mod in the world and a good computer, it buffers very slowly. It's like a turtle player. It likes to mess up and repeat 1 second of sound over and over, cause it can't buffer good. Flash buffers like crazy, but only because of super mods has bywifi.
Can you let us know more about your system so we can help troubleshoot your problem? What OS (Windows XP/Vista/7, MacOS X/Intel/PPC)? Also, you said DivX Player Plus... did you mean DivX Plus Web Player or DivX Player?
We'll be happy to try to help if you can provide us with more details.
I have windows XP pro. the problem is with the DivX Plus Web Player. It just froze up again and I got a C++ runtime error in Iexplorer and it closed all my web pages that were up I was half way thru a movie when this happened. Is there any way to go back to the version before it worked great. This is very frustrating to say the least. It seems to happen in full screen mode if I stay in windowed mode it doesn't seem to slow my computer down. But if it starts buffering then the screen freezes but the sound continues then it plays catchup and stops. If you rewind it back a little then wait a few minutes to plays fine till it starts buffing again.
Could you please try removing all of your DivX software, rebooting, and then reinstalling the DivX bundle with the new Web Player?
Hi, I am having the exact same problem. I have been using Divx Web player for several years to watch streaming shows on Ninjavideo. I have always been mightily impressed, even with their new HD content my player streamed flawlessly. Today however, it informed me there was an update available. After I installed it, it would play small screen but a little jerky, however when I go to full screen it just freezes the PC. I have to go into Task manager to shut it off and the whole operation takes about 10 minutes. I tried what you suggested above, un-installed everything and re-installed several times. But always the same result.
I even tried a system restore, but it didn't recognize the update so I cant go back to the old one. Very frustrating 'cause 90% of my viewing is from Ninja.
Please Please offer a solution, or at least a link to the old player !!!
(Windows XP Pro using IE 8)
Can you do these two steps please, and email the results to "pellis divxcorp.com" (put an @ between those two obviously).
Use the "Run" entry on the Start menu to launch "msinfo32". Export your configuration to file.
Use the "Run" entry on the Start menu to launch "dxdiag". Click to "Save all information".
Your DivX Web Player (v.1.5.0.52) worked, and still works, like a charm. I always wanted to tell you: Fantastic job!
(Despite the two issues: mouse cursor disappearance and the missing feature of continuation of download if it interrupts for any reason. [But, I don't know whether the latter is technically possible with streams at all.])
Unfortunately the Plus Web Player doesn't work here at all. It doesn't even slow down my machine as mentioned above. It simply doesn't start streaming on any of the sites supported by kino.to I tried and as mentioned in thread Divx Web Player connection problem.
Even more, it hangs my FF 3.5.5 so I have to kill its process via Task Manager. (Or maybe this was the mentioned slowdown effect and I was not patient enough to wait. On the other hand, all other running apps were running normally.)
I'm running Windows XP Prof. SP3 with the latest patches and updates applied. As mentioned, my current browser ist FF 3.5.5. This happened with 3.0.15 as well.
Do you need msinfo and dxdiag from me as well?
PS: The often repeated „A new version is available, update now.“ message box is annoying when knowing that the new version doesn't work for you.