Windows Media Streaming Problem in Virtual PC 6

[vbbr]

Hi,
I am trying to use Virtual PC to connect to a streaming site which works ONLY with IE 5.5+ .
The streaming is done inside a Web Browser Window using embedded Windows Media Player.

The streaming starts normally but after every 2 minutes, the streaming stops and i see "Ready" written on the Windows Media player status Bar. Clicking Play again does not start the stream, but refreshing the page starts streaming for another 2 minutes. So the page has to be refreshed every 2 minutes.

If i try this using someones Windows PC and there is no problem like this.

Can someone please help me on this?

Thanks

 

[jmgalvin]

VPC is not the greatest solution in the world, things run slower and put more strain on the machine.

If you have a bunch of RAM in the mac, quit everything but VPC/IE. If you don't have enough ram you're going to run into bottlenecks on and stream/transfer as the mac machine looks for memory on the hard drive to compensate.

 

[vbbr]

thanks for the response. However, RAM does not seem to be the issue here since VPC is the only program running on my mac when i see the streaming. I have allocated 288 MB to the Windows 2K instance in VPC and in general it runs fine.
I am thinking if there is some timeout setting in the network connection between VPC and MAC ethernet?
Or maybe after 2 mins some buffer gets full and it clears up only on refresh. ?

What other emulator can i try?Please suggest.

Regards,
Vikas