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Windows Media Player 11 Problems

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  • 22-09-2008 5:19pm
    #1
    jasonb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,

    Hoping this is the right forum for this.

    I've a problem viewing videos using Windows Media Player 11. I've got Vista Home Premium 32 Bit ( fully patched ), DirectX 10 installed ( fully patched ) and an NVidia GeForce 6200 256Mb PCI Graphics Card ( latest drivers ).

    Everything works great apart from one thing. If I watch a video in Windows Media Player, the image kind of flickers or shudders a little. It's hard to explain it, it's almost like it's being paused and then unpaused for a fraction of a second every second or two. It's not really bad, but it is noticeable and it gets annoying.

    If I watch the same video using, say, Quicktime, it's fine.

    Any ideas? Is it a Graphics Card / Driver problem, a Vista problem, or a Media Player problem? Thanks!

    J.


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    #2
    Dartz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭Dartz


    It probably is your graphics card... that's pretty old, and Vista Aero's going to be running that a bit on top of media player.


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    jasonb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭jasonb


    Yep, the PC in general is fairly old, though I upgraded the CPU, RAM, Hard Disk etc. The Graphics card was basically the best I could get for a PCI Motherboard.

    What I don't understand though is why the video is poor in Windows Media Player, but fine in Quicktime.

    I might try turning off all of Vista's fancy Graphic features and see if that makes a difference...

    J.


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    #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,235 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    WMP11 is an awful example of video playback. Its crap. I would only use it for music. get yourself VLC Player or WMP-Classic from the K-lite codec pack.


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