re: Question about 'How do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?'
Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 8:07 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Josh Isley
(8 messages posted)
To add insult to injury, these files are short even when opened with Realplayer,
Quicktime, and a couple other media players.
And I still have this problem...
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 3:35 pm, Josh Isley wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?:
>
>Hello.
>
>I read the subject and didnt think it pertained to my problem, but then I read the
>article and it seems that it related directly to my problem.
>
>Problem : My videos are much shorter than they should be. A 63 Mb file (MPEG) on
>my hard drive is supposed to be almost 20 minutes long, but when I go to play it,
>it registers only one minute. Now, I have opened the same file in the past. And
>played it all the way through, in the past. I did download another file that was
>a carbon copy, opened up a preview of it before it fully downloaded, then deleted
>it (names were different, thought it was a different file)
>
>Well, I think now that is what made the file shorter. I read this article, and
tried
>all three solutions (changing name of file, changing directory of file, and deleting
>the file as mentioned in Solution 2) and even mixed and matched, till I did all
three
>at once and STILL is only 1 minute long. I even tried making that wmp file a read-only
>file as said in one of the replies. Still only one minute for a 63 MB file.
>
>I have also downloaded other movies which should be much longer than what they are
>(less than a minute some) and those I didnt even open up in a preview. So I'm at
>a complete and total loss here. I would really appriciate some help, but if you
>cant, thats understandable, this is one stupid problem heh.
>
>Josh
>
>
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