Windows Media Player is playing slow.

[Gornot]

Your rig seems somewhat old to me, and with 256MB of RAM on your GPU, I can't exactly say I'm sure you're able to play all videos smoothly, especially if they are in HD.

How long have you been using Windows 7? Have you upgraded from Vista, by any chance, or did a clean install from XP (or Vista all the same)? Have you been experiencing this problem as soon as you installed Windows 7, or is this issue a bit newer?

 

[RATEDRKO]

Are you sure it is old? I brought this laptop new in August 2010. Windows 7 was pre-installed

This problem started last month.

 

[cmd187]

Your CPU is only a very slow single core and you only have 256MB of RAM.

 

[RATEDRKO]

Are you sure about this? The computer had windows 7 pre-installed. I doubt a computer would be installed with software that doesn't work. Windows 7 has worked just fine.

 

[Gornot]

You still haven't answered my most important question: did the videos play smoothly before, just when you got the computer, or is this a recent problem?

Both your software and hardware work just fine, the point is that your computer just isn't powerful enough to smoothly handle HD videos. IF those videos really are HD, I keep assuming but you say nothing about whether it's true or not. We can't help you unless you clearly state all the details to your problem; at this rate, we can go on for weeks.

 

[RATEDRKO]

I did answer your question.

This problem started last month.

Yes, these are HD videos. They are 720 HD videos. This type of HD video works perfectly fine from some websites. However, HD videos from other sites don't work smoothly. Although all of these videos worked perfectly fine before last month.

 

[cmd187]

Are you using hardware acceleration for your browser? Has anything changed since the videos last played? Flash player up to date?

 

[Gornot]

I did answer your question.

lol, sorry about that.
also, +1 on what cmd said. There had to be a change you made to the system if these files no longer work properly. A change of browser, new GPU drivers, perhaps SP1 install...

 

[vaidas3]

I'd try v 1.1.9, not version 0.86. These problems were fixed a few years ago.

FYI tried 1.1.x version and same problems.. bit better that it was before but still not the best player out there.

Your CPU is only a very slow single core and you only have 256MB of RAM.

he has 2GB ram of which 256MB is shadred video ram, thats is more than enough.

CPU is a bit slow but it should be able to handle 720p video.. well it depends on the encoding.. and decoder used.
My netbook with atom 1.6GHz single core can handle 720p video.. well not always smooth play but not so bad.

Because cpu is weak, you need to check maybe something cpu power hungry running.
and check on ATI 3100 driver maybe they have optimization for decoding video.

CPU usage 65% is logical thing because your laptop cpu seems to be energy eficient version economy cpu so not the best thing for HD video. yes it can handle windows 7 fine but HD videos is different.
if youre sure that you could play thoose same videos without problems before.. look what have changed.. and you maybe will find the cause of your problem.

 

[RATEDRKO]

Hi everyone! I got a new computer. Yet I am still having this problem. I'm having trouble playing 720p and 1080p files with my Windows Media Player and VLC player. In Windows Media player the videos are out of sync with the sound, and some videos will freeze if I try to skip ahead. VLC player's issue is that it will freeze videos for about 5 seconds, and it is annoying. I downloaded the K-Mega codec packs. That didn't make any difference. I tried using Media Player classic, but some videos will make the program completely freeze for 30 seconds if I try to skip ahead the video.

My new computer should be strong enough to play these videos. I have 4.0 Ram with a duel core 2.00GHz and 2.00GHz.

I am at a lost for answers.

 

[Gornot]

If it's not a codec issue, and not the OS issue, as well as not the PC issue (since it happened on two different computers), the only conclusion based on the information you gave us is that the video files might be corrupted and/or have been ripped inappropriately.