First, thank you for your response, and so fast, you are great.
All other videos work well except Tradestation video but this might be
related, before this problem came up that yahoo news clip videos stopped
working. I posted to this group about yahoo news clip videos not working a
few days earlier and I did not get a response.
Tradestation support responded similar to you:
"WMP in Vista Ultimate 64 Sp1 is extremely buggy. Acer may be right.
Very possible that WMP damaged the training video if it was downloaded or
copied to your PC and played first on WMP...in which case, download or copy
it again.
Also do NOT defrag your hard drive with the Vista defrag utilities...it will
corrupt many (but not all) large files - the video likely is quite large."
It would be easy to start all over again. I just go to the appropriate web
page and click on the link again. But I assume I need to delete the
corrupted file first. How do I do that? Where does WMP keep the cache so I
can clean it out or how do I delete WMP cache? I have been using Ccleaner
to clean cache in IE7 and other junk files; I assume it will also clean WMP
cache.
Or maybe the question is how do I use video without corrupting it?
If Tradestation support comments were correct that WMP "damaged the training
video", is there a different video player you would suggest I use if WMP
corrupts video files?
Is there anything to the Tradestation support comments that Vista defrag
corrupts some large files? If so, can you suggest a different utility
(free?) that I can use to defrag my computer?
Once again, for what its worth, thanks so much for your help!!
Bob
"John Inzer" <oobie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eb4fJviuIHA.2188@xxxxxx
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> Bob wrote: Quote:
>> I play this 1:01:18 long training video on WMP and at 39:13 the sound
>> beaks up or glitches. The training video is from
>> mms://66.151.41.51/platform_introduction It might be password
>> protected for you because it is Tradestation training video. The
>> sound or talking is coming through but it breaks up or glitches
>> through the remaining video playtime and it is difficult to
>> understand. If I really concentrate I can understand it but it
>> should not be this way. Before 39:13 it sounds great.
>> Searching for an answer http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html suggests:
>> "Vista-only: If your sound card is crackling or having audio glitching
>> (especially towards the end of tracks!), right-click on the Speaker
>> icon in the system tray, select Playback Devices, right-click
>> Speakers in that new dialog, go to Properties, then go to
>> Enhancements - choose "Disable All Enhancements" and you should be
>> fixed up." I tried this and it did not help.
>>
>> I installed a freeware video player that would run
>> mms://66.151.41.51/platform_introduction and it did the same
>> thing. I installed RealPlayer and at 39:13 RealPlayer sound beaks up
>> or glitches just like WMP and the freeware player. I am thinking of
>> trying Quicktime, would that do it?
>>
>> Are there some settings I need to adjust? Is it Tradestation
>> creating some type of error in there training video?
>>
>> I called Acer support and they said it is a "Microsoft" issue and
>> they can only help me with Acer software and hardware. If any of you
>> think this is a hardware issue please let me know so I can credibly
>> insist Acer help me with this.
>>
>> Any suggestions on things to try would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Background info: I have a AMD 4400+ 64X2 4GB memory 320GB HD(way
>> bigger than I need) Acer computer (AM3100-U3201A) I purchased new
>> February 2008 running MS Vista Home Premium SP1 32bit box. I check
>> for MS auto updates very frequently. I think it has onboard shared
>> memory sound and video.
>> For what it's worth, I want to thank all you people who read and
>> answer the endless computer problems posted on these groups. You
>> guys have really helped me a number of times. Thank you so much for
>> your service!!!!
>> Bob > ===========================================
> Do you experience this behavior on all videos or just this
> one...the reason I ask is because I'm thinking the file may
> be corrupted.
>
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>
> John Inzer
> Digital Media MVP
>
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