My Video Problems

Tom in San Diego · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 3 Location: San Diego

What in hells up with Vista not playing video formats worth a damn?

I keep downloading new patches and updates from MSN, but more likely than not just get a new warning or error window about something else not feeling good about something.

Why would they market something they must know had a problem. Ive managed to get everything else running , for the most part.

Any word from MSN about fixing the problem?
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skierhughes · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:34 am Post subject:

If you want to be a little more descriptive about your actual problem, what formats, what problems etc then maybe we could help you find an answer.
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Tom in San Diego · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 3 Location: San Diego

Sure.

I notice it particularly on anything thats embedded, in a news article, or You Tube, or streamed, whether its on Flash player, mpeg, WMV high res or wideband - whatever format. Just runs for a minute or two, then freezes. Same thing if try to down load something, after a few minutes, the program just stops.

Ive heard its a Windows created problem on Vista, and theres no word of any fix for it yet. That seems hard to believe.
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skierhughes · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:31 am Post subject:

To be honest I haven't seen anything as bad as your suggesting you have, even in my days of Beta testing Vista.
My desktop and laptop are fine.
There may be comments around the web about problems, but if it was as bad as you say then it would ahve been fixed by now and the web would be inundated with pages about it.

I'd start by checking out your pc, it's hardware, ensuring all drivers are correct and up to date and also look at your interent connection.
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Tom in San Diego · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 3 Location: San Diego

OK. Its a new laptop, so I assume everything is up to date, but never thought it might be drivers and/or connectivity. Im not a pc geek, so I have learn things by braille.

Thanks
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skierhughes · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:44 am Post subject:

Brand new could be months old. Laptops need drivers from the laptop manufacturer, so if you do windows updates and update things like your grpahics driver you end up with the wrong one.
DirectX has had some updates recently, check yours has these installed.

Do you connect by wireless or cable? Wireless has it's own problems with losing signal, cable depends on the speed at which you connect, broadband or dial up, and then also on the contention ratio of your connection, which is how many people share the connection. Good providers have low ratios, maybe 1:20, the poorer and often cheaper ones can be as high as 1:50 or more. The more people downloading larger content the slower eveything gets. Which is why in the old days, the worlds internet slowed down when America got up.

Whilst talking of connection, with speeds of connection getting faster and faster, there isn't the ened to compress the files that small, so if you are tryig to watch really large files this can cause problems.

If you have links to others with the same problem as you can you post them.
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