mpegs hesitate

[Guest]

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop, Win XP, 2.4 processor, 1 gig ram, Intel
adapter. When playing whatever format of mpeg movie - WMA, Divx, Real, the
play
will hesitate on a regular basis, almost as if it is catching up, then
resume. This happens even if the player is the only app which is open.
There are even times when the sound continues while the video stops. Some
movies are worse than others, but all seem to do it to some extent.
I have looked everywhere in the system for a memory setting or something to
help resolve the problem but cannot find anything pertaining to video.
Any ideas for me?
Thanks...gary moore

 

[Rock]

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop, Win XP, 2.4 processor, 1 gig ram, Intel
adapter. When playing whatever format of mpeg movie - WMA, Divx, Real, the
play
will hesitate on a regular basis, almost as if it is catching up, then
resume. This happens even if the player is the only app which is open.
There are even times when the sound continues while the video stops. Some
movies are worse than others, but all seem to do it to some extent.
I have looked everywhere in the system for a memory setting or something to
help resolve the problem but cannot find anything pertaining to video.
Any ideas for me?
Thanks...gary moore

What runs in the background? AV program? Indexing? Have task manager
open and see what is running when the video hesitates.

 

[Guest]

phal,
Are you talking about online movies here??

yogi

 

[Guest]

Yes, Music Videos , mpegs, divx, downloaded website content. I have not
noticed it on dvds but then I am not sure that i have even played a dvd on
this player.
Thanks...gary

 

[Guest]

I have not tried that. My biggest problem is that most of the stuff I am
looking at in task manager I cannot relate to the program using it. I guess I
could see what, if anything is affecting it, copy the name, type it into the
browser and find out where it is coming from huh?
Good Idea...thanks...gary

 

[Rock]

I have not tried that. My biggest problem is that most of the stuff I am
looking at in task manager I cannot relate to the program using it. I guess I
could see what, if anything is affecting it, copy the name, type it into the
browser and find out where it is coming from huh?
Good Idea...thanks...gary

Yes, www.google.com is a good tool for this.

Here are some other references:
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
http://www.tasklist.org/