re: Videos will not play correctly
Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 4:57 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Broni
(1423 messages posted)
Lisa
92 MB of RAM may be little bit too low for Win 98, but you may get by.
I don't know, if it matter, by to check your DirectX version, go Start>Run, and type:
dxdiag. It'll show you what version you have.
Anyway, regarding MPG and WMV files...
Are you talking about playing them on line? If so, what kind of connection do you
have.
If offline, I would give Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) a shot, set it up to play
MPG, and WMV files, and see, if you are doing better.
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Smartercomputing
On Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 12:08 pm, Lisa wrote:
>I bought my computer in January 1999 and a new hard drive was installed in March
>2003. I should point out that I'm *well* aware I need a new computer, but cannot
>afford one at the moment so I'm trying to make the best of this one :)
>
>I run Win 98 and have 92 MB of RAM installed. (This was actually a post-factory
RAM
>upgrade, it came with less than that.)
>
>The problem I am having is trying to view videos. MPG files played perfectly on
the
>version of Windows Media that came with my computer, however I have since upgraded
>to a newer Windows Media because I had to in order to play some file I was trying
>to view. I think I have 7.0 now, which runs slow as a snail and won't even play
audio
>correctly. When playing MPG and WMV files, the video screen only changes once every
>10-30 seconds.
>
>RealPlayer will play audio with no problems but I get the same "frozen video" result
>with MPG and WMV videos.
>
>Is this a RAM problem, a video card problem....? Any help is appreciated. This is
>very frustrating especially since I have friends with systems as old as mine and
>they have no problems playing videos.
>
>(I should also note that I have tried every suggestion in the troubleshooting of
>both Windows Media and RealPlayer, to no avail.)
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