Movie plays while buffering?
I've never had this problem before, but now any movie that I watch on my Divx player will start right away without buffering first. Then as it plays, it buffers about every 5 seconds. Not sure what's going on.
Everyone is recommending people to use... gasp... the "old" player. Many websites that do work have obscene buffering issues now with the new player. All of this is driving DivX users insane!
To accelerate any version of the DivX Web player, you can use Bywifi and also, run it all through a Ram Disk, as described in my super mod thread. This will all help you as much as possible, and be quite effective to give a nice performance boost for every version.
I hope that DivX can release a more compatible version, which is stable. That is clearly the consensus. Websites and end-users alike are clamoring, buzzing away about this, everywhere Divx Plus Web Player is mentioned.
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spankradio, that happens when the video is not properly encoded. This is one issue that will be pretty much like the mouse disappearing act and they will have a hard time to find the bug on this if they can't catch it in time. Dev Team, I suggest you might want to look into this cause this bug happens quite frequent with the old DWP. The new DPWP seems to mask that problem well enough on many videos, but of course, the problem is there still. This problem stems from the different ways each CODEC is used to encode DivX. That's just my theory. But if the Dev Team did not look into this in the early stages, it will happen the same way it happens with the mouse disappearing problem.
Ah, the typical variable-bitrate-problem-then-do-pseudo-streaming. This usually has more to do with the "I'm calculating how much video I have by how much data I've received" rather than looking at how much time pertaining to the video has downloaded. Of course this might not be the cause here, I'm just guessing.
This isn't specific to DivX by any means.
It seems like I can't watch any movie all the way thru without encountering some problems with the buffering during the play back. I've only had these buffering problems after I was prompted to download the new updated DivX player. I'm using Windows XP, would that make a difference?