Hey All,
Using Windows Media Player 8 under Windows XP. The playback of mpegs seems to be pretty poor. Sometimes choppy and if I seek around it can freeze for like 10-15 seconds. Sometimes more. Other times after I seek it will play like a frame or 2 and stop. I'll seek again and it'll do the same thing.
When I play this same mpeg in another player like PowerDVD it plays fine and seeks ok. However, PowerDVD's interface I don't really like for playing back many movies. Not the way I watch em. If I were going to watch a long movie then sure but I tend to load up a file I downloaded, skip around while playing it back and either deleting it or keep it to watch later.
So. do any of you know what I can do to improve mpeg playback with WMP 8? Or do you know of a player that is better AND that has the same interface as WMP 8 because I like that interface.
Also tell me whether this is normal. When I check the properties under WMP 8 it says audio codec is Morgan Stream Switcher and the video codec is Mpeg Video Decoder.
Should there even be a codec listed here for it? Does this indicate that the playback is going through some generic codec I have rather than what it should be?
Using Windows Media Player 8 under Windows XP. The playback of mpegs seems to be pretty poor. Sometimes choppy and if I seek around it can freeze for like 10-15 seconds. Sometimes more. Other times after I seek it will play like a frame or 2 and stop. I'll seek again and it'll do the same thing.
When I play this same mpeg in another player like PowerDVD it plays fine and seeks ok. However, PowerDVD's interface I don't really like for playing back many movies. Not the way I watch em. If I were going to watch a long movie then sure but I tend to load up a file I downloaded, skip around while playing it back and either deleting it or keep it to watch later.
So. do any of you know what I can do to improve mpeg playback with WMP 8? Or do you know of a player that is better AND that has the same interface as WMP 8 because I like that interface.
Also tell me whether this is normal. When I check the properties under WMP 8 it says audio codec is Morgan Stream Switcher and the video codec is Mpeg Video Decoder.
Should there even be a codec listed here for it? Does this indicate that the playback is going through some generic codec I have rather than what it should be?
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