How can I view online video without the starts and stops?

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If it had been up to me, I wouldn't have put You Tube up until that bug got work out. But then I would have made sure saccharine and cyclamates were harmless and not cancer-causing before putting them on the market.

I cannot tell you how much this info helped!! Been having this problem for awhile. Not just on Youtube! Very cool and no need to get frustrated anymore. I will just pause....

When running internet videos the red load line does load far ahead of the playing point. And the video still stops, skips frames, and starts and stops. Even going back to the beginning point and rerunning the video with the red line full the video still does the stop and start thing. The sound is doing the same. I am running windows XP with Internet Explorer. Adobe Flash player 10 Active X is loaded and Java Script is enabled. Memory space is clear. System is an Intel 866 MHZ, 512 ram with service pack 3. Display adapter is a Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 100/200. And the wireless connection is at 54Mbps.What possibly could be wrong or set to cause this video problem? Videos do run normal in Microsoft Media player. But are jumpy in Flash. Thanks

THANK YOU SO MUCH for the info. I have had problems trying to watch the news videos on my homepage with all the stopping every few seconds. I just hit the pause and let the line move to the right and NOW I have no problems watching.

hi Leo
thanks for the information but even when i pause the download progress wont happen or is very slow and it very annoying. so please please tell me what to do

I had the same start and stop problem with watching videos online. I tried numerous sites to make sure it wasn't the site. The problem came on suddenly so I tried all the fixes on the first page, but no luck. I finally uninstalled ITunes which I had recently installed and now everything is working fine again. ITunes installed a mess of programs that I would never even use and it made itself the main music player. I also noticed that Itunes had a lot of task running all the time, at least 5 or more. So, that's my fix. Hope it might help someone else.

Ive been having a similar problem but Ive found that if I reboot my PC the videos play faster what could be causing this?

Usually that means that some application is eating up system resources - CPU, disk, memory, or network bandwidth. Pay close attention to what applications are running before you reboot - one or more of them may be interfering.

26-Jul-2009

well my problem is a bit different than this...
when i try to watch a video online sometimes its plays fine but after serveral viedeo watching or sometimes just one...

the sound stop & the video stops playing if i click the video it plays for 2 secs.. then stops again only thing i can do is restart my PC
to fix the problem & repeat

Please help...

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