MPEG playback jumpy

[Guest]

I am having trouble playing mpeg and mpg clips smoothly. The files are
stored locally, on the root of C, but the playback is jumpy as if buffering
issue. I loaded Cyber Link player just to verify it was not a result of
Media Player 11, but the same results surfaced. I then uninstalled the video
driver and reinstalled with the same result.

My hardware should be up to snuff... 1.7 ghz processor, 2 gb ram, 32MB ATI
Radeon 7500 video adaptor, current BIOS update. The OS is XP SP 2. (IBM
T-42 Laptop)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. If I am in the wrong
newsgroup, please advise and I will redirect question.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Probably the graphics card... it's really low on RAM. Also, what else are
you running at the same time?

 

[Guest]

The only active program at the time is the media program used to play the
program. What would the requirement be for playing a 3 MB mpeg file?