slow flash video playback

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Roger C

Hello,

I have a very slow video playback (very choppy) whenever I play
streaming video on the internet. I have read many posts to solve this problem
but I cannot fix this. I am connected to a broadband connection for my
internet. The internet runs very quickly. My computer has a lot of disk space
and 512 RAM. I have defragmented my computer as well as done various cleaning
to the system including checking for malware, viruses, disk cleanup. I only
have 40 processes running which are mostly mcafee applications. I don't know
what else I can do but everything I have tried does not fix the problem. I
know my connection can give very good playback because about 4 months ago the
playback was excellent. Can you please help me out, I don't know what to do
and its driving me crazy! Thank you very much for all your help.
 
"Roger C" <RogerC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22D2542D-5CC8-477D-9054-E7AC1BF41B9E@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have a very slow video playback (very choppy) whenever I play
> streaming video on the internet. I have read many posts to solve this
> problem
> but I cannot fix this. I am connected to a broadband connection for my
> internet. The internet runs very quickly. My computer has a lot of disk
> space
> and 512 RAM. I have defragmented my computer as well as done various
> cleaning
> to the system including checking for malware, viruses, disk cleanup. I
> only
> have 40 processes running which are mostly mcafee applications. I don't
> know
> what else I can do but everything I have tried does not fix the problem. I
> know my connection can give very good playback because about 4 months ago
> the
> playback was excellent. Can you please help me out, I don't know what to
> do
> and its driving me crazy! Thank you very much for all your help.

Are you using Windows Media Player or another application? You may have to
adjust the performance properties.

Does this occur when you stream from every web site, or just one or two?
Could be an issue with the server you are viewing from (e.g., high activity
loads).

Now this is going to sound bad, and I don't recommend it all the time, but
temporarily disable McAffee and see if the lag returns. You may have to
adjust the scanning properties.

Mark
 
I close every application in order to test the speeds so this cannot be it.
Whenever I stream from abc.com or netflix.com or alloftv.net (which runs
flash player) or even youtube at times this happens any website that runs
flash/shockwave. Youtube seems to be the fastest but still lags. I have
attempted to disable MacAfee but I am not exactly sure if disabled it
completely, if that sounds inaccurate let me know. I don't know exactly how
to disable McAfee. I adjusted performance properties by making the virtual
memory paging file: 1000-2000. I am not sure if this is what you mean.

"Mark F." wrote:

>
> "Roger C" <RogerC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:22D2542D-5CC8-477D-9054-E7AC1BF41B9E@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a very slow video playback (very choppy) whenever I play
> > streaming video on the internet. I have read many posts to solve this
> > problem
> > but I cannot fix this. I am connected to a broadband connection for my
> > internet. The internet runs very quickly. My computer has a lot of disk
> > space
> > and 512 RAM. I have defragmented my computer as well as done various
> > cleaning
> > to the system including checking for malware, viruses, disk cleanup. I
> > only
> > have 40 processes running which are mostly mcafee applications. I don't
> > know
> > what else I can do but everything I have tried does not fix the problem. I
> > know my connection can give very good playback because about 4 months ago
> > the
> > playback was excellent. Can you please help me out, I don't know what to
> > do
> > and its driving me crazy! Thank you very much for all your help.
>
> Are you using Windows Media Player or another application? You may have to
> adjust the performance properties.
>
> Does this occur when you stream from every web site, or just one or two?
> Could be an issue with the server you are viewing from (e.g., high activity
> loads).
>
> Now this is going to sound bad, and I don't recommend it all the time, but
> temporarily disable McAffee and see if the lag returns. You may have to
> adjust the scanning properties.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
 
I have learned to disable McAfee completely. This has made the downloading
speeds very fast. Buffering the rest of the video finished very fast. But
even still after the "bar" finishes and resume to play the video, it is
normal for about a minute and then it becomes choppy again. I have kept the
task manager open to see what happens to the cpu usage and it peaks at 100%
almost immediately after I start the video. I have erased all video codecs
except for WMP codecs and Flash plug-ins and I left Direct X9c thinking a
conflict of codecs could be the problem, but this did not resolve the issue.
Can you please help me out I would really like to solve this issue. I really
appreciate all your help.

Thank you,

Roger C

"Roger C" wrote:

> I close every application in order to test the speeds so this cannot be it.
> Whenever I stream from abc.com or netflix.com or alloftv.net (which runs
> flash player) or even youtube at times this happens any website that runs
> flash/shockwave. Youtube seems to be the fastest but still lags. I have
> attempted to disable MacAfee but I am not exactly sure if disabled it
> completely, if that sounds inaccurate let me know. I don't know exactly how
> to disable McAfee. I adjusted performance properties by making the virtual
> memory paging file: 1000-2000. I am not sure if this is what you mean.
>
> "Mark F." wrote:
>
> >
> > "Roger C" <RogerC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:22D2542D-5CC8-477D-9054-E7AC1BF41B9E@microsoft.com...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a very slow video playback (very choppy) whenever I play
> > > streaming video on the internet. I have read many posts to solve this
> > > problem
> > > but I cannot fix this. I am connected to a broadband connection for my
> > > internet. The internet runs very quickly. My computer has a lot of disk
> > > space
> > > and 512 RAM. I have defragmented my computer as well as done various
> > > cleaning
> > > to the system including checking for malware, viruses, disk cleanup. I
> > > only
> > > have 40 processes running which are mostly mcafee applications. I don't
> > > know
> > > what else I can do but everything I have tried does not fix the problem. I
> > > know my connection can give very good playback because about 4 months ago
> > > the
> > > playback was excellent. Can you please help me out, I don't know what to
> > > do
> > > and its driving me crazy! Thank you very much for all your help.
> >
> > Are you using Windows Media Player or another application? You may have to
> > adjust the performance properties.
> >
> > Does this occur when you stream from every web site, or just one or two?
> > Could be an issue with the server you are viewing from (e.g., high activity
> > loads).
> >
> > Now this is going to sound bad, and I don't recommend it all the time, but
> > temporarily disable McAffee and see if the lag returns. You may have to
> > adjust the scanning properties.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
 
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