Streaming video ALWAYS pauses

[Jim G]

I have a 10meg cable connection and no matter what streaming video I try to
view, it always pauses. I know its not a bandwidth issue as this only
happens on my Media Center pc. I even formatted and started over and it
still pauses. Although if I boot up my laptop (not media center) and hop on
the wireless and view a video, its smooth.

Any ideas?

Jim

 

[R. McCarty]

Various factors, Video card & it's VRAM count, which Player (Version),
Drive type and speed. Also if it's Windows Media Player have you adjusted
any of the default settings ? Content is queued up through the Temp folder,
so have you dumped it's contents lately. Also most players use a rather
small
buffer ( 5-10 Seconds ). You might try to have the player buffer a larger
amount of content to prevent halting. Just way too many things to list as
possible factors. You might want to pull up TaskMgr and watch a few of
the Process counters to see how the PC is loaded while trying to stream
video content.

 

[smlunatick]

Depending on the streaming video "player", you may have to set up the
options to "buffer" the streaming video for "some" time.

 

[Rock]

I have a 10meg cable connection and no matter what streaming video I try to
view, it always pauses. I know its not a bandwidth issue as this only
happens on my Media Center pc. I even formatted and started over and it
still pauses. Although if I boot up my laptop (not media center) and hop on
the wireless and view a video, its smooth.

You might want to post to the mediacenter newsgroup. Someone there might
have experienced this. Make sure you specify the hardware involved.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter