Media Player 10 Issues!!

[PhotoOpp]

Earlier today I installed Media Player 10 and since then I have been having problems with my computer momentarily freezing! My OS is WinXP Pro SP2.

I like to play music files in the background while I work, but now every once in a while the computer sort of locks up so that I can't do anything with what was the active screen! It seems to correct itself after 15 seconds or so or after I bring up TaskMgr! I also noticed that I occasionally get songs skipping!! There doesn't see to be a pattern as to when this occurs...

Any thoughts on how I can debug this issue??

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
WMP could be reloading its buffer ( althought it should not cause that much of a delay, unless the files are on a slow disk.) Try increasing the buffer size and see if it then happens less often ( or stops happening altogether)..






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[linney]

Some links on skipping sound for you.

Skippy Sound in Media Player
thread779-981636

812610 - Audio File Sound Skips During Image Transitions

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812610&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Mouse and Music Sticking
thread779-799405

 

[BadBigBen]

Hola, another venue to check, is to see if the HD is set to DMA (as it should) and not gone back to PIO Mode (SLLLOOOOOO

http://WWWWW!!!!)...

Win XP has a kinda build in feature (or pain) that when XP detects 5 or 6 DMA errors, it will subsequently slow down the bus speed to PIO... This can have the side effects that you mentioned, Slow/Skipping Sounds...

to fix this remedy, uninstall the affected IDE ports/line, ie. Primary or secondary, within the Device Manager, then reboot and let Windows reinstall them...

in the Device Manager, you can also check to see if the devices in question are set up correctly to use "DMA if Available"...



Ben

If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer...

 

[matthewpepple]

just buy the new eu windows that is sans-wmplayer

cheers!

matthew pepple


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