I downloaded something off the internet and joined it it was a wmv movie.  I then tried to play it back but when I play it back the movie freezes for 5 or 6 seconds then starts.  I am using WMP any suggestions as to why that is happening?

thanks

You running anything else at the same time? It might be a lack of memmory that's making it slow.  It might have 5 or 6 seconds of black screen at the begining too, just a thought.  I'm not too sure what else it can be, hopefully someone else will be able to shed some more light on it for you.

the begining is fine just when I choose another location mabye 1 min into the movie it freezes for 5 or 6 seconds but no black screen just the frame freezes.

maybe you should get the latest version of windows media player?

here are your choices:

Windows Media Player 10 if you have windows Xp
                                       or
Windows Media Player 9 if you have anything below windows Xp.

or it could just be a memory problem, or the video was made that way possibly.

I have WMP 10, wth codecs, The individual parts work fine on there own when I join them it freezes but plays after a few seconds.

how much RAM do you have and what is the speed of your processor?

it's just a selected ffew I downloaded today.  It's a 2gh machine with a gig of ram in there.

bad file perhaps?

It may be trying to download certificates (i think thats what its called .... wmp sucks imo so i dont remember much )
That may be why its freezing a bit

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Originally posted by Fergy
bad file perhaps?

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Has he tried using quicktime to open the mpeg files and seeing if the same thing happens?