Videos keep freezing

[Brandon]

So on my desktop (Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM WinXP Pro) I'll be on YouTube, and videos will freeze after about 10s or so. Strangely enough, the same thing happens if I try streaming a video through WMP11.

Does this in both Firefox and IE7,have the latest updates for Flash and everything else.

Not our internet as my laptop has no problems what-so-ever (were on 4mb cable)

[Preppy Veteran]

What video card do you have? Do local videos play correctly?

[NiceCarpet]

So it's just content lag, no mouse lock ups?

Are you running a Firewall / Anti-Virus, if so which ones?

[Brandon]

The computer doesnt freeze or anything, jus the video stops playing until I click further down on the "time playing" AntiVirus is AVG - same as on my other computers. Local videos play just fine

Video card is a GeForce 7600.... should be 10000x capable to play these.

[Preppy Veteran]

Capable vs "buggy drivers" is always an interesting question, though. What driver version are you at? What driver version do they have on their site?

Because it's common to Flash *and* WMP, that narrows it down to either the video card driver or a potential conflict with networking.

[NiceCarpet]

I don't think it would be the video card in this situation, when the video is skipped down the time line it works fine. However, just to be sure right click on the YouTube video and click 'Settings' from there find the 'Display' tab and untick 'Use Hardware Acceleration', if it keeps happening you can rule out bad video card drivers or dieing video card.

That leaves some local internet setting on that PC or something interfering with the Stream, like Firewall or Anti-Virus that monitors internet traffic. You don't seem to have that problem on the other computers though so that rules out that too (unless you them set up different or something?).

In WMP when you change the buffer settings does it help at all for the streaming WMP content?