Re: Media Player glitch in Windows 2000 Pro

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Cheers, Neil. That was it!

I was looking in WMP for Audio Hardware Accelleration, not in Control Panel.

We get there in the end!

Thanks again -

TM

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:<020d51lboqn978186pfkfsr25o5e9gdk1o@xxxxxxx>...
> Hmm well as I said on Zachs site it says
>
> Control Panel-->Multimedia-->Audio-->Advanced Properties (this is the
> "Sound and Multimedia" control panel on Win2k) and turn down Hardware
> Acceleration
>
> So I looked at that on a couple of Win2k systems and a couple of XP
> systems and it was there (actually on XP it's in the same place as
> Win2000, under Control Panel --> Sound and Multimedia).
>
> So I can only assume your sound card is very basic or very very old if
> it doesn't offer those options.
>
> Cheers - Neil
>
> On 8 Apr 2005 04:42:12 -0700, trevormidgley@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Trevor
> Midgley) wrote:
>
> >Neil - thanks for the comment.
> >
> >I know how to change the video accelleration, but I can't find
> >reference to audio hardware accelleration anywhere in the Help files.
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >Many thanks.
> >
> >"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:<fnp2511v3891sc8dd3o4r6c4nhr29p4lrj@xxxxxxx>...
> >> There are some suggestions on Zach's site :
> >> http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#audio
> >>
> >> See if that helps - when did this start to happen ?
> >>
> >> My guess would be that you might need to check your sound card drivers
> >> are up-to-date and that you should set the audio hardware acceleration
> >> should be turned Down.
> >>
> >> Cheers - Neil
> >>
> >> On 4 Apr 2005 06:27:44 -0700, trevormidgley@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Trevor
> >> Midgley) wrote:
> >>
> >> >Can anyone tell me why, when I run an audio file in WMP, after about
> >> >80-90 seconds of playing, the sound starts to break up?
> >> >
> >> >If I use RealPlayer, absolutely no problem at all!
> >> >
> >> >I'm running Windows 2000 Professional (fully up-to-date with Service
> >> >Pack 4) and Windows Media Player version 9.00.00.3250, which is I
> >> >believe the most up-to-date version that Win2K Pro will take?
> >> >
> >> >Any thoughts appreciated.
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