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I've tried Googling, which usually turns up a hundred possible answers which I have to sort through, but this time I had a difficult time finding what I thought would be abundant information.
For most video files, the video freezes during playback, usually a few seconds into the file, average maybe ten seconds. This happens with .mpg, .wmv, .avi and others. It happens in realplayer, wmp9, wmp11, quicktime, and media wizard. It happens with a variety of files from a multitude of different sources. Sound continues, video is frozen.
Interestingly, the problem isn't 100% consistent... there are a few files that behave, but I can't find any reason why those are different than the dozens of others of the same filetypes. Also interesting, scanning forward usually locks up the player, moving the player window around either does no harm (but no good) or sometimes locks up the player, but reszing the player (by dragging the corner) shows the video... sometimes fast forwarding through all frames from when it froze to the current frame, sometimes skipping to the current frame.
Very weird. I'm guessing that since the behavior is so widespread through filetypes and players that it is a lower level video subsystem problem, either codec or driver, but I can't find any reference to anything to get me started in the right direction.
I'm suspicious that allowing wmp to update to version 11 recently may have sparked the problem, but this system is a fresh install of just a couple of weeks age and I can't be certain that this behavior hasn't always been present - I didn't transfer my video collection from my backup drive until a few days ago (though I don't remember playback from youtube or other web-based players having problems).
Any suggestions? I installed a couple of "shotgun" approach codec packs hoping to hit on something useful, but no luck.
For most video files, the video freezes during playback, usually a few seconds into the file, average maybe ten seconds. This happens with .mpg, .wmv, .avi and others. It happens in realplayer, wmp9, wmp11, quicktime, and media wizard. It happens with a variety of files from a multitude of different sources. Sound continues, video is frozen.
Interestingly, the problem isn't 100% consistent... there are a few files that behave, but I can't find any reason why those are different than the dozens of others of the same filetypes. Also interesting, scanning forward usually locks up the player, moving the player window around either does no harm (but no good) or sometimes locks up the player, but reszing the player (by dragging the corner) shows the video... sometimes fast forwarding through all frames from when it froze to the current frame, sometimes skipping to the current frame.
Very weird. I'm guessing that since the behavior is so widespread through filetypes and players that it is a lower level video subsystem problem, either codec or driver, but I can't find any reference to anything to get me started in the right direction.
I'm suspicious that allowing wmp to update to version 11 recently may have sparked the problem, but this system is a fresh install of just a couple of weeks age and I can't be certain that this behavior hasn't always been present - I didn't transfer my video collection from my backup drive until a few days ago (though I don't remember playback from youtube or other web-based players having problems).
Any suggestions? I installed a couple of "shotgun" approach codec packs hoping to hit on something useful, but no luck.
Could have made that clearer. Sorry.
