Problem with videos in media player

[GWARGHOUL]

And, no.. 128mb of ram is not sufficient for multitasking and streamign symoultaneously.

[ApeDosMil]

I never said anything about multitasking, he obviously isn't having a "Not enough ram problem" if he has a gig of ram. It would stream either really choppy if he was low on ram and hard drive would Thrash a lot but it would play something. I don't recall programs doing if ram is = or less than whatever amount of ram while multitasking disply a black screen with sound. He is streaming anyways, that gets cached in your temp interent files folder anyways.

[hippietim]

Maybe you should study the concept of RAM a bit better before you speak.

Everything streaming is being processed, then stored in RAM, if the amount of ram is to small, it will be stored in a page file on windows systems.

streaming playback is no different than non-streaming playback in terms of resources required. either way you must have enough RAM to hold several frames of audio/video in memory and enough disk space to hold some portion of the media file. if you are paging RAM during any kind during a video then playback will be extremely choppy. if you have 128 MB or better you shouldn't have any problems. if you have 1 GB then it is highly unlikely that RAM is your problem.

if the exact same video works when it is downloaded locally but not when streaming, it is possible that the codec you have to play that format does not support streaming - this would be odd but i've seen it before. a more likely reason is that the file that you downloaded is not in fact identical to the version that is being streamed.

[hippietim]

He is streaming anyways, that gets cached in your temp interent files folder anyways.

that is not streaming, that is just downloading and playing. that's not the same thing. your temporary internet files folder is used by any program such as IE that downloads using URL monikers (via URLMON.DLL), streaming is not done that way. for streaming playback, the player never writes a complete file to disk and those files are stored in either the page file (for memory mapped files) or the current temp directory.

[ApeDosMil]

that is not streaming, that is just downloading and playing. that's not the same thing. your temporary internet files folder is used by any program such as IE that downloads using URL monikers (via URLMON.DLL), streaming is not done that way. for streaming playback, the player never writes a complete file to disk and those files are stored in either the page file (for memory mapped files) or the current temp directory.

Next time you play the video like it will load up right away though. Unless I'm confused something.

[Deneb]

Okay, so I've investigated this further, to no avail.

I've got the latest video drivers. The newest WMP. A gig of ram, a 256gb video card (fx5900 XT)

That said, videos that are on my comp play fine. Youtube, or google video? just fine. Media player videos? Black and white, and dark.

I found a codec pack, and that hasn't solved the problem. I'm really racking my brain here, because my other comp has the exact same set up, and it has NO issue what-so-ever.

Is there maybe some setting in IE I'm forgetting about somewhere that does this? I'm completely stumped.

[ApeDosMil]

Do ALL videos play in black and white?

.avi

.wmv.

.mpeg

etc...

You may have a codec conflict.

[GWARGHOUL]

The problem is your OS