Re: Choppy video/audio
- From: "Daave" <daave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:14:29 -0400
Real Player's advantages are in playing content that that company offers
(.ra and .ram files, for instance). Then again, there are other media
players that can play that content, too (for instance, a program called
Real Alternative -- original, huh? :-) ). I doubt that WMP can play
those files, though.
Where do you live? (Not the full street address.) Perhaps someone can
recommend a decent ISP that is also affordable. Keep in mind that many
telephone companies offer packages where you can get unlimited phone
service plus DSL service (and sometimes TV service, too) for a decent
price. This is what I do. I am a customer of Cavalier Telephone
(Cavtel), which is only available in limited locations nationally. I use
a rabbit ears antenna for broadcast TV and I use Cavtel for unlimited
telephone plus DSL (about $70 per month).
Is there a cable TV company near where you live? If so, there might be a
package (including phone service, cable TV, and Internet) that is
affordable.
How much do you currently pay for AOL dial-up? Up to what amount will
your budget allow you to pay for a faster connection? (Keep in mind that
packages offer you savings.)
Gramma wrote:
OK, Daave, thanks for educating me and the prompt reply before I
*did* do something drastic. It appears though that the consensus is
that I *do* have to give up the struggle with dial-up and find an ISP
who offers broadband for video streaming, if I understand it right.
And, at your suggestion, I'll just stick with Adobe 10 for now.
I'm using Windows Media Player 9--haven't updated to 10 or 11--but 9
it works fine for me.
But somehow Real Player came up to download (which I really don't
want), but wonder if it "is" necessary for some files as a msg shows.
As long as I have WIN Media Player can I uninstall Real Player w/o
losing some functions?
Think I'm getting on the right track now and hate to ask for a
recommendation for an inexpensive ISP (on my small retirement income,
you know)--or DSL, or cable??? You might enlighten me on that
subject. I just don't know, but I am planning on taking my computer
to heaven with me as I *must* have my e-mail and streaming video to
occupy my day. :-)
"Daave" wrote:
Don't do either thing, Gramma!
Adobe Flash 10 is fine.
And although AOL has its detractors (I am definitely in that camp)
and can often decrease a PC's performance, your issue (as mentioned
before) is the fact that you have a slow dial-up Internet
connection. Otherwise, your downloaded video file in your My
Documents would be choppy, too.
Your choice is to figure out a way to download the video files so
that they are *always* in your PC or get a much faster "broadband"
Internet connection (which might involve switching to another
Internet Service Provider).
Even if you are successful in rolling back from Adobe Flash 10 to
Adobe Flash 9 (which again, is *not* recommended!) and can prune some
unnecessary AOL processes, you will still experience choppiness when
you view streaming content (that is, as long as you use dial-up).
*Always* be careful in accepting advice in these newsgroups (even
from me). You don't want to start mucking around and accidentally
create newer problems. Whenever possible, seek advice from MVPs
(volunteers recognized by Microsoft for their knowledge and
helpfulness) or look to see if there is some consensus.
Gramma wrote:
The best AOL can come up with is the running process problem answer,
but I have something like 63 running processes and didn't want to
follow their instructions to close all of them!
Have printed out your instructions and will attempt--it will be an
interesting exercise for me as I never had a clue about those green
graph lines jumped up and down. Even at 82, I'm still interested in
learning. But going to find out how to roll back Adobe 10 to 9
first. Stay tuned...Gramma
"jarsek" wrote:
This suggests that when you use your web browser, something is
present that is eating up your processor time. Do an alt-ctrl-del
to get the task manager running (whilst trying to watch one of your
on-line videos), click the processes tab, click the CPU columb
(twice I think) to get the highest CPU user process to the top.
See if you can identify a CPU 'thief' that perhaps should not be
running and consider uninstalling it or remove it from your
startup.
Hope this helps
Jim
"Gramma" <Gramma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:466B4B24-62D7-4307-A6C0-89400ACD9E8B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Using WinXP Home Ed, SP3, IE7 and AOL dial-up connection. Have
downloaded latest Adobe 10xxxx Flash Player. Can play AOL video
clips, but both video and audio choppy. AOL does not have answer
(or doesn't want to). Can play other video fine with Windows Media
Player. Would someone please, please help
me because many of their articles are not in text but must use
video. Pleeeeeez!
.
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