Guest P & H Macguire Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 Not sure how to frame this query but here's the problem: When trying to view videos (such as news items or Youtube) it proceeds in fits and starts; freezes for several seconds then continues. Ordinary video dvds play OK though. Is there some setting I should adjust or what? System: Win XP Home SP2 Athlon 64 3400+ Radeon 9600 1 GB RAM Regards and thanks in advance Pat Macguire
Guest Matt320 Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 RE: Video question Hi, If you try to veiw videos from the internet or any other network for that matter they use a process called "buffering". What your experiencing is the video downloading to your computer ( temporarily ) and your computer is playing it faster than the time it can buffer the rest of the video... this is quite normal for every ones computer unless you have a super fast download speed. To get over this try pausing the video untill the buffering is completed then the whole thing can be veiwed with no interuptions. Normally you will see a bar near the video which will be shaded a different color to represent the ammount buffered. sorry if this sounds confusing... good luck, matt320
Guest P & H Macguire Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 Re: Video question "Matt320" <Matt320@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:99C96E83-208A-45BC-BE27-443744949CE8@microsoft.com... > Hi, If you try to veiw videos from the internet or any other network for > that > matter they use a process called "buffering". What your experiencing is > the > video downloading to your computer ( temporarily ) and your computer is > playing it faster than the time it can buffer the rest of the video... > this > is quite normal for every ones computer unless you have a super fast > download > speed. To get over this try pausing the video untill the buffering is > completed then the whole thing can be veiwed with no interuptions. > Normally > you will see a bar near the video which will be shaded a different color > to > represent the ammount buffered. sorry if this sounds confusing... good > luck, > matt320 No, not confusing- I think it's cleared it up. I have seen something about buffering as you suggest. With some sites, as I suggested, it doesn't happen, but maybe they force you to wait till the buffering is complete, or perhaps I've been viewing these when the internet connection is faster. Anyway, it all sounds logical so thanks for that. Regards Pat Macguire
Guest Matt320 Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 Re: Video question no probs, thanks for replying. "P & H Macguire" wrote: > > "Matt320" <Matt320@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:99C96E83-208A-45BC-BE27-443744949CE8@microsoft.com... > > Hi, If you try to veiw videos from the internet or any other network for > > that > > matter they use a process called "buffering". What your experiencing is > > the > > video downloading to your computer ( temporarily ) and your computer is > > playing it faster than the time it can buffer the rest of the video... > > this > > is quite normal for every ones computer unless you have a super fast > > download > > speed. To get over this try pausing the video untill the buffering is > > completed then the whole thing can be veiwed with no interuptions. > > Normally > > you will see a bar near the video which will be shaded a different color > > to > > represent the ammount buffered. sorry if this sounds confusing... good > > luck, > > matt320 > > No, not confusing- I think it's cleared it up. I have seen something about > buffering as you suggest. With some sites, as I suggested, it doesn't > happen, but maybe they force you to wait till the buffering is complete, or > perhaps I've been viewing these when the internet connection is faster. > Anyway, it all sounds logical so thanks for that. > > Regards > > Pat Macguire > > >
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