[Ringo1725]

New poster here. I searched the forums looking for an answer first, so I apologize if this has been addressed and I just missed it.
When I play wmv's on my Mac with the Windows media player it plays just fine for about 30 seconds or so and then the video freezes. The audio keeps chugging on along, but not the video.
any suggestions? I have WMP version 9 ....

[dcpics]

Please give some specs:
computer, OS, RAM, connection to Internet (broadband, dial-up), video card etc.

It sounds more of a connection speed or RAM problem off the bat, but more info is needed.
thanks

[dougster]

Not much to add, but also what browser/browsers you have tried? I'm also guessing its one of the things -dcpics listed. WMP isn't the best player, but seems to run well on Macs with the right setup...and often times we are stuck using it. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Ringo1725]

First, thanks for the replies and trying to help. It's much appreciated.
computer, OS, RAM, connection to Internet (broadband, dial-up), video card etc.

I have an eMac running Mac OSX version 10.3.7. 1.25 GHz powerPC G4. 256 MB DDR SDRAM.
I have a cable modem ... as far video card, I couldn't find out which. I have whatever it comes with ... I haven't changed it.
I have a lot of music, movies and videos but those are all on an external harddrive.
I'm running the safari web browser ... videos usually play fine. Quicktime does great. It's when it has to open up WMP separately that it mucks up.
again, thanks for any help you can offer.

[dougster]

-Ringo,
Your Mac specs are pretty dang good, and WMP should rock with your setup. The only thing lacking is RAM...256MB is a tad low, but if you don't have hog eating apps loaded it should work fine. Try this: Quit WMP->~[Home]/Library/Preferences/com. microsoft.mediaplayer.plist and trash its prefs. When it launches a new one will be created.
<edit: I think your eMac has the Radeon 9200 video card> /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Ringo1725]

I tried what you suggested ... only in the preferences folder I had nothing for WMP. nothing for com.microsoft. it was all com.apple.
any other suggestions?

[Ringo1725]

well ... I guess I figured it out. sort of.
I'm still unable to stream videos off the internet via WMP, but if I download them to my desktop they play fine.

[dougster]

Well, there are some cases when you HAVE to do that. Can you provide an URL so members can test drive their WMP? Also, might try: a 'Find'->Command + F keys, and pop in mediaplayer.plist ...to try and locate WMP's preference just for fun.