beginng to prepare to start to get ready to think about playing a video

[Angels Gate]

I just played a short video clip (.wmv) on my Vista machine. It took
Windows media player about 20 seconds to start playing this. This is a tiny
12 second clip. Media player says something in the lower left hand corner
about changing media. In my old XP machine this took about a second. On
this machine any other player I choose starts play back in about a second.
What the devil is Windows Media player checking, configuring or seeing if I
have the rights, while I'm waiting for this to play. What is going on here?
I want to play my clip, what takes so long?
Core Duo 2, 2gb ram, 256 nVida card. My Pentium M, 512 ram, integrated crap
video xp machine can play almost instantly.
Shouldn't Vista do a better job of this?

 

[Mike]

I just played a short video clip (.wmv) on my Vista machine. It took
Windows media player about 20 seconds to start playing this. This is a tiny
12 second clip. Media player says something in the lower left hand corner
about changing media.

Does it do this every time or just the first time?

Mike

 

[Angels Gate]

Every time, every type of media, even a wav file. Don't get me wrong, I
love Vista, but I think this is some DRM hocus-pocus and it is preventing me
from adopting Media player as my, well........media player for everything.
Then I could junk iTunes winamp, nero, vlc and a few others.

 

[Guest]

I did not have this problem when I purchased a new Dell desktop with Home
Premium factory installed. WMP worked fine on Home Premium, just like it did
on XP. I then did a clean install of Ultimate and have had the same problem
as you, even before I loaded any software.

I resolved the problem by downloading and using GOM player, a much better
player that plays more file types than WMP.

I don't know what the problem with WMP is. I did not ask anyone for advice
as to how to fix it. Many people are having problems with WMP and Vista so I
decided to wait until Microsoft fixes all the bugs in WMP before I attempt to
use it again.

I hope you find a solution to the problem.

Have a nice day.

C.B.

 

[SwampYankee]

I did not have this problem when I purchased a new Dell desktop with Home
Premium factory installed. WMP worked fine on Home Premium, just like it did
on XP. I then did a clean install of Ultimate and have had the same problem
as you, even before I loaded any software.

I resolved the problem by downloading and using GOM player, a much better
player that plays more file types than WMP.

I don't know what the problem with WMP is. I did not ask anyone for advice
as to how to fix it. Many people are having problems with WMP and Vista so I
decided to wait until Microsoft fixes all the bugs in WMP before I attempt to
use it again.

I hope you find a solution to the problem.

Have a nice day.

C.B.

Funny you say that, that is exactelly what I did. Dell with Hope
Premium, fresh install of Business. All of a sudden WMP is slow. This is
strange

 

[SwampYankee]

Funny you say that, that is exactelly what I did. Dell with Hope
Premium, fresh install of Business. All of a sudden WMP is slow. This is
strange

Fixed!!!!
Just do this:
Start > Control Panel > Sound > Playback Tab > Double-click
"Speakers/Headphones" > Enhancements Tab > Check "Disable System Effects"

 

[garyf]

This fixes it, see below, some other person on the internet takes
credit for figuring out the fix:

Start > Control Panel > Sound > Playback Tab > Double-click "Speakers/
Headphones" > Enhancements Tab > Check "Disable System Effects"

Note: In all the listed devices under the Playback Tab, if they have
an Enhancements Tab, then double click it and look for any options to
"Disable System Effects"

 

[SwampYankee]

This fixes it, see below, some other person on the internet takes
credit for figuring out the fix:

Start > Control Panel > Sound > Playback Tab > Double-click "Speakers/
Headphones" > Enhancements Tab > Check "Disable System Effects"

Note: In all the listed devices under the Playback Tab, if they have
an Enhancements Tab, then double click it and look for any options to
"Disable System Effects"

No credit taken found it on web in a comment thread and posted it.
Thought I would help instead of criticize.