Bob wrote:
Quote:
> 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
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I could be totally wrong here...but my thought is
not that your system corrupted the video...I think
it's the video itself that has the problem.
Reason being...the clip skips on my system also
and I never have problems viewing online video.
Windows Vista -
Delete Temporary Internet files
http://tinyurl.com/29jl5s
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...676911033.mspx
Windows Vista -
Delete files using Disk Cleanup
http://tinyurl.com/ynu8bb
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...139d91033.mspx
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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP
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