Re: WMP 11 problem with streaming video on Vista

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:33:01 -0800, Consolas
<Consolas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One thing curious about this issue is that the video plays fine in the
miniature window once the WMP is minimized to the task bar. Does the player
re-neogiate with the server once it is swithced to or from miniature mode?

No, it doesn't do that.

How does the player render the video differently in window mode and miniature
mode?


So there's a chance that overlays may be involved here. In a small
window (toolbar player) there seems no requirement for the graphics
card to be involved in assisting the CPU by providing overlay playback
because that's not CPU intensive.

In full player mode, typically overlays and/or directX video
acceleration may be provided for performance reasons.

So at that point I'd check those values are set in WMP Tools ->
Options (or More Options in WMP11) -> Performance -> Advanced

You might also want to tweak the video acceleration slider down 1
notch to see if that helps. If either of those provide the desired
result, I'd consider updating the graphics card driver software to the
newest version available for your card.

Thanks for you help, Neil. Here is an URL to a video that has the problem
that I mentioned.
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/recaps/recap08_371_sacmil.asx

I was able to play all the WMV files on my hard drive without any problem,
so I am not sure what's causing this.

I started to have trouble viewing stream videos (WMA format) with WMP 11. It
used to work fine until a few weeks ago. The audio plays fine but I don't see
the video in the player. The interesting thing is: when I minimize the player
to the task bar and turn on the mini-screen, the video show up fine in the
tiny window. So it doesn't seem to be a codec issue.


I'm not sure I have an answer for you right away - I'll have to think
about it for a bit. One thing I wonder though - does this only affect
videos streamed from the internet ? What happens if you find a Video
file (WMV) on your local hard disk somewhere - does that play OK ?
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