Windows Media Player pausing during playback

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JamesHillyer

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Hi Guys

Having problems with WMPlayer 11. I will load a video, and it plays fine for a while, and then all of a sudden the video and audio stop. It sounds like the hard drive begins to spin up, then after about 5 or 6 seconds, the video skips ahead by 20 seconds. The video then proceeds to play at approx 1-2 FPS, whilst the audio plays from where it stopped. It continues for around 20 seconds until the audio has caught up to the video, then the movie proceeds to play like normal. I haven't found out what provokes this, it happens multiple times in a 2hr movie, and ive tried updating all my drivers etc...

Any Ideas?
 
Does it happen in the same spots in the video?
Also, I suggest trying this: track your cpu & memory usage and the processes while watching and see what goes on when it hits such a bad spot. I suggest using this freeware program for that: DTaskManager.

You can get it from the person's home page or from a third party download site like snapfiles.com.

See if you can figure out whether your cpu usage or memory shoots up and whether it's connected to any specific process/program.
 
My CPU usage goes up slightly (from 1-3% to 6-8%) and my RAM stays the same... The problem also happens at differing spots each time I replay the video
 
I never use Windows Media Player since it always hangs up in my computer whenever i open it.I only use Power DVD and i can say that it is the best player for me..
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Sorry for the late reply guys

I have tried different media players, including VLC Media player

All of them seem to have the problem of pausing during playback, and none seem to have differing levels of pausing. Its still random.

Im thinking it has something to do with the hard drive though. Every time the pause happens, I think I can hear the hard drive spinning up.

Any more ideas?
 
It could be caused by very slow hard disk, there are several ways to make it faster, like defragmenting it, adding more RAM which means that the page file doesn't need to be used, because RAM has a speed of 3GB/s while the HDD anywhere around 10-100 MB/s

This usually happens when the read speed of the device the movie is on, is lower than the movie's rate. For example a movie which has 5 MB/s won't play continuously on a hard drive with a speed of 2 MB/s.
 
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In the player options, have you tried reducing the slider on "Video acceleration"
 
So I think ive found something that may be contributing.

I just watched a movie from my 'primary' hard drive, and I didnt see one pause in the movie. But all the others are from a secondary hard drive... Could there be something continually powering down my other hard drives?
 
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