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watching video stored on one PC on another via homegroup
Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I'm not sure quite where it should be.
My problem is I have a desktop and laptop both running Windows 7 and in a homegroup. For convenience, I store lots of video clips (5-10 minutes long mostly) on the laptop. I edit etc. on the laptop but like to play them on the desktop as it has a much larger screen. The desktop is new and the processor is a 2.95 gigahertz Intel Core i3 530 (Multi core (2 total) Hyper threaded (4 total). The display is Nvidia Ge Force GTS 250. I have plenty of disc space on both machines. From my understanding (which isn't that great on technical matters) this should be plenty to play video. If I play directly from the computer, for example a stored clip or one in iTunes on the desktop, it runs fine and the picture is excellent.
When I use homegroup on the desktop to link to a video clip on the laptop it starts playing fine. There will be no problems for a couple of minutes. I have tbbmeter running on both machines and this will show a steady stream out from the laptop and in on the desktop. Then suddenly it stops. tbbmeter shows no activity in or out but the progress bar on the application running the clip(e.g. media player) still progresses across the screen though the picture and sound are frozen. After a minute or two the picture will start running again but at about four times normal speed. When it starts the activity shown on tbbmeter starts again. The sound (which stoppedd at the same time) will be heard at normal speed.
This has happened consistently. I've tried running several players, i.e. windows media player, real player, and all act in the same way.
I normally connect to the clips via the homegroup connection but the same happens if I go into network and select the laptop from there.
I can't understand why this happens and wonder if I'm missing something obvious. Nothing I've tried over the last few weeks has worked. Can anyone please advise me as to what is happening and any way round the problem? I know the obvious thing is to copy the clip over to the desktop and run it directly from there but would prefer not to have to do that.