Video file freezes XP

"Menikos" wrote in message
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Sorry for delay in replying (I'm a shift worker in London)
The bottomline as I see it is, that in all probabilty there is
corruption, or your system is seriously struggling?

Don't worry about that, it's only a short delay; I know you guys have a
9-5
(or vice versa). I appreciate your patience and assistance. BTW, I used to
work in London, many years ago, more than 2 decades ago actually.

I will try to get the 256 stick this weekend and see what happens.


The first thing we are going to do, is isolate OE.
If you followed Wojo's link to an online scan, then
that eliminates contamination.

OE has been giving me that problem for sometime in the past though
infrequently and I've just been bearing with it that's all.

I have to state I do not know what the correlation is between
dubious media file playback and OE being problematic.

Perhaps there is none, since the OE hiccup started months ago and with the
recent update on the DirectX, running the media files has been trouble
free
so far (touch wood!).

I will check out your suggestion on act/deactthe OE with my new ram stick
and see how it goes and revert.

Just to deviate a bit, how (in simple steps please) can I convert video
clips taken with digital camera so that they can viewed with real or
windows player? How can I reduce the converted clip size?

When you say "digital camera" do you mean a stills cam that also
takes video clips, or a DV camcorder?
For this answer I'll assume it's a camera, and assume the format
is apples quicktime annoying .MOV file type, if so:
These are the four top tools for converting, but not free:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?convert=MOV%20to%20WMV

Apple want license fees to enable playback, MS won't pay
or WMP wouldn't be free!

Also have a look here for freewa
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gm...deconvert.html

Or download an open source mediaplayer that plays any file type:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xine

I will try to get the 256 stick this weekend and see what happens.

Wow! with a new stick I'm at warp (well, almost) speed now!!!

However, my first try in viewing news video online failed miserably despite
having carried out nearly all those suggested over various postings. Before
playing that video, I had my registry repaired (bout 1400 files)and updated
real media. Could that upset the cart or videos online are just not up to
par? Should I restore my registry repair?

"Menikos" wrote in message
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I will try to get the 256 stick this weekend and see what happens.

Wow! with a new stick I'm at warp (well, almost) speed now!!!

However, my first try in viewing news video online failed miserably
despite having carried out nearly all those suggested over various
postings. Before playing that video, I had my registry repaired (bout 1400
files)and updated real media. Could that upset the cart or videos online
are just not up to par? Should I restore my registry repair?


Whoa! Slow down, exactly what are you using for "Registry repair"?
Hopefully it wasn't one of those pop-up's that direct you to an online
tool?
This is the video forum, alas I suspect we are going to have to steer
you to dedicated forums for dubious registry repair tools.....

What online video (streaming?) failed miserably?
How did it "fail"? cookies blocked? Securty blocked?
Error messages?

Whoa! Slow down, exactly what are you using for "Registry repair"?
Hopefully it wasn't one of those pop-up's that direct you to an online
tool?

It's Registry Repair 2005 by Stompsoft.

This is the video forum, alas I suspect we are going to have to steer
you to dedicated forums for dubious registry repair tools.....

What online video (streaming?) failed miserably?

News video from online newspaper.

How did it "fail"? cookies blocked? Securty blocked?
Error messages?

Nope, none of that, it's the same freezing problem.