Hi Greywolfe, Are you on dial-up, dsl, or cable? Maybe this will be helpful as far as smoothness of the video playing back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-blDCXxh2cE On windows media, just go to tools, options, file types or something like that to check file formats you want to view on the player but on the new windows media player I am lost right now, those are older ones. Christy -------------------------------------------------- From: "DO1212SK" <do1212sk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 8:05 PM To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Improving video steaming? > A friend of mine just video'd a drum and dance weekend festival I > attended. > He gave me a link to the videos, but unless I play them at a tiny "web > size," the clips keep constantly stopping and interrupting > themselves...? -It's really very annoying, to the point of making the > videos > unwatchable!! > > Is there any way I can improve my streaming video setup so I can watch > larger (or perhaps higher def) videos w/o this annoying problem? > > I'm using WinXP and Win Media Player on an older PC. Should I use a better > video player than Win Media, or perhaps could some kind of anti-virus > security program be knocking out my vids? > > Also, I forgot how to get to the MS software that let's you assign > suffixes > to different programs... (Like .wmv .jpg, etc....) -I'm thinking maybe I > should use something other than Win Media for .wmv files? > > Thanks, > Greywoulf > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and > everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > OR > To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to > pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To > unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > "unsubscribe" in the Subject. > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: > pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: > pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------