What a frustrating bit of time I've had. On Saturday there was a video scavenger hunt at my church. I wanted to pull two clips off my camera to share with others. However this was the first time I'd be capturing video from my camera since my system refresh.
The AVI file was stuttering and skipping, now knowing I just installed a base XP Pro system I knew the issue was codec related... however finding the right solution is very hard at times.
I started downloading codec pack after codec pack, and was having no luck. So I went searching for things to find corrupted codec's or if there was some other problem causing it.
Found a few things that seemed to help.
Step 1: Uninstalled every codec pack I had installed previously. Worked to make sure my system was as clean as possible.
Step 2: Ran the vbs file on this page. Now after doing this, I tried the video again and it was skipping... so while this may help you, it didn't help me.
Step 3: Ran Sherlock 2.0 and it pointed out a few codec corruptions, so I worked to clean those out the best I could (deleting registry keys and such).
Step 4: Installed the K-Lite Codec Pack using the option that said something like "A bunch of stuff". Now this actually found some corrupted codec's and deleted them.
THEN IT WORKED!!!!
Now a side note, I've become a huge fan of Window's Media Player Classic which is installed with K-Lite.