I installed the Google player after I followed a link to a YouTube video I wanted to see. It starts and plays for 3 or 4 seconds, then freezes. I stop it, start it again; it plays 6 or 8 seconds, then freezes. I stop it, start it again; it plays 10 or 12... See the pattern? Is there any way to fix it? I already uninstalled & reinstalled once.
Windows Media Player is worse. It takes forever to do anything, then alternates between loading and buffering till I get fed up and quit.
2007-04-29 18:41:10 · 8 answers · asked by Alice K 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Tried everything everybody suggested. Nothing helped. Anybody else?
2007-05-01 11:19:37 · update #1
Take the easy way and change it by another one or upgrade it to last version.
good luck and have nice day .
2007-04-29 18:45:35 · answer #1 · answered by Rasmah.com 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have problems with Media Player as well. I recommend as an alternative to media player, VLC player or Windows Media Player classic. As far as Youtube video, I believe those videos are flash videos or .flv format. You can try uninstalling Macromedia Flash and reinstalling it to see if that helps.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
2007-04-29 18:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by descartesprotege 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you're on dial up the speed is too slow to see videos online. But if you do have high speed and having this problem it may be that your computer have something running in the background that's sucking up your bandwidth. Look at task manager (del, alt, ctrl) and see if you have programs that is using internet connection. Like some autoupdate, scheduled downloads...etc.
2007-04-29 18:48:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the problem is not with your player its with urs internet connection
if u r fed up with Google media player or Windows media Player
try using Media player Classic(on of the best of media players) and u will forget all the players
2007-04-29 19:09:55 · answer #4 · answered by jack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not player problem but while watching online video u face this situation
actually, this are streaming video and get buffered into our HDD and then play. If u show haste this will become problem.
moreover nowadays flash video technique is used to display web video (flv file)
2007-04-29 18:49:14 · answer #5 · answered by digil 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"This thing does not even play the video, only music" This has nothing to do with VLC, per se. Windows (and likely your CPU) has built-in DRM controls (See below:) that prevent end-users from making copies of illegally "Pirated" copy-protected media content". VLC's Transcoding Tools only work with videos that are not copy-protected, like ones you create yourself.
2016-05-17 06:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the problem is not with the player...the players downloads a portion of the file and plays it...the freezing happens when playing rate is faster than download rate
2007-04-29 18:52:20 · answer #7 · answered by tBone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your internet connection is bad... try setting wmp as ur default.. or torrent winamp pro, the best media player alive.
2007-04-29 18:45:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋