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Re: [ECS] Dropouts in Windows Media Player Dario Greggio Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:51:55 +0200

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Mark Gilmore wrote:
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> Anyone have any idea how to avoid the repeated/obnoxious/persistent
> dropouts when playing audio archives thru WMP ?
> If I lower the buffer size, it just drops out more often.
> If I increase it, it happens less often, but takes longer
> to "recover".
> Checking/unchecking "UDP" has no positive effect.
> It SEEMS that this program is NOT buffering in the background
> (i.e. it gets a buffer, plays it, then gets another).
> I've done an EXTENSIVE web search on this topic and have
> turned up nothing (no one else seems to be having this problem).
> I am using the latest rev for Win95 (6.4).

I downloaded 7.0 for Win98 and I notice such a behaviour when playing
video clips. It goes slowly and streaming is not continous (my machine
is only a Celeron 566, maybe too slow for Microsoft?? :-))
Anyway, I'd not change from Winamp, if you only need it for WAV and MPŁ.
Better gifts from WMP may not be (for me, IMO) worth the effort and the
cost in resources.

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