Right i have a wee problem with windows media player.

When im watching a video on windows media player it will play fine for like 5 seconds then it will stutter for a few seconds, then play fine again, then stutter again etc etc...pissing me right off, anyone any ideas? The sound doesnt judder, just the video!

 

Is this the case on any video or just one in particular?

 

are you streaming the video's?

 

No its the case with any video, ones that are on my computer too!

 

Ive 45GB of free space, could it be virtual memory or some shite like that?

 

try rebooting your machine..i get it too sometimes...a reboot cures it

 

sounds like a fucked codec.

do you know the format of the video your playing?

 

It happens with avi, mpeg,mpeg2/3/4 etc them all...

Ive tried rebooting, doesnt work.

 

Windows XP?

 

Have u tried playing it using Divx? I often get clips that wont play properly in WMP but will play fine in Divx....... As said its probably a codec issue....

 

It is windows xp, ive got DIVX player, ill set it to open all my files and see what happens!

 

To be honest i think u will struggle to set it as default player for all files, but its easy enough to open them from Divx....

 

what spec is the pc,

could be the processor struggling or the video card struggling????

 

I get this too! When i try and watch vids with the laptop on top of the washing machine. I have since moved the laptop to the kitchen work top and this seems to have worked.

HTH

 

 

It could be the CPU in the pc is being used 100%, this happened to my nephews pc, he was watching a video he downloaded and it was playing the sound ok but was skipping on the video.

It was a combination of low memory and CPU under full load. Try running a spyware scan incase your pc is infected. I noticed on another post you said you used limewire, this is ridled with spyware and other crap.

 

Firstly, try another form of player. Div X, Winamp, Power Dvd etc, etc. Secondly, press ctrl+alt+del when watching your video and see if the cpu usage is maxxed out. Thirdly, what version of Media Player have you got ? Help - About will tell you this. Forthly, is it a film, music video, or smut that you are watching ? Either could possibly be corrupt in some form, possibly re-download it from a different source

HTH

 

lol its smut, its any video, like the christian and becky rsturbo vs evo video does it....doin my head in...cpu useage goes to 50% when it jumps!

 

Well if ur still suffering problems, it sounds like a new graphics card is due!!

 

Damn!

 

watch everything in vlc media player..it plays everything perfect

media player is shite

 

VLC?

 

http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Pl...-10290875.html