When I watch a television show on Fox.com, the video freezes for about half a
second every 10 seconds. It makes the video unwatchable.

I read something in the FAQ for the video player about CPU usage. It stated
that if CPU usage was over 75%, it could cause a problem with video playback.
I looked in Windows Task Manager (CTR-ALT-DEL) under "Performance" and my CPU
usage is at 100% when playing the video. When I looked under "Processes",
over 95% was for iexplore.exe (my browser I assume). When I am not watching
video, iexplore usage is less than 5%.

I am not sure if this is the problem. Is there anything that can be done to
reduce the CPU usage while running the video player?

kevinla wrote:
> When I watch a television show on Fox.com, the video freezes for
> about half a second every 10 seconds. It makes the video
> unwatchable.
>
> I read something in the FAQ for the video player about CPU usage.
> It stated that if CPU usage was over 75%, it could cause a problem
> with video playback. I looked in Windows Task Manager (CTR-ALT-DEL)
> under "Performance" and my CPU usage is at 100% when playing the
> video. When I looked under "Processes", over 95% was for
> iexplore.exe (my browser I assume). When I am not watching video,
> iexplore usage is less than 5%.
>
> I am not sure if this is the problem. Is there anything that can
> be done to reduce the CPU usage while running the video player?


CPU (speed/type/full specs) and amount of memory in the system in question?

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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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> XP SP3

> IE 7.0

> Pentium 4 1.6 1.00 GB ram

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> kevinla wrote:
> > When I watch a television show on Fox.com, the video freezes for
> > about half a second every 10 seconds. It makes the video
> > unwatchable.
> >
> > I read something in the FAQ for the video player about CPU usage.
> > It stated that if CPU usage was over 75%, it could cause a problem
> > with video playback. I looked in Windows Task Manager (CTR-ALT-DEL)
> > under "Performance" and my CPU usage is at 100% when playing the
> > video. When I looked under "Processes", over 95% was for
> > iexplore.exe (my browser I assume). When I am not watching video,
> > iexplore usage is less than 5%.
> >
> > I am not sure if this is the problem. Is there anything that can
> > be done to reduce the CPU usage while running the video player?
>
>
> CPU (speed/type/full specs) and amount of memory in the system in question?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>