Is your CPU pegged? What types of movie files are affected?

Downloading a codec would probably do absolutely nothing positive here.

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"JPepper" <JPepper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:78EB6F98-625F-4221-A62D-8B80A1F39B78@microsoft.com...
> Whenever I play a movie file on WMP(10, the same problem existed with WMP
> 9
> and I updated to see if it would change anything), the audio plays at full
> speed, but the video plays at 1/2-2/3rds speed. The same problems occur
> with
> several other media players, too: BSPlayer, Realplayer, DivX, Et Cetera.
> Nero
> Media Player, though, causes a especially peculiar result, the file will
> skip
> to arbitrary frames, contains no audio whatsoever, and will skim through a
> file that normally has a 30 minute duration in 20 seconds in this manner.
>
> What's wrong/can it be fixed by downloading a codec for WMP or something,
> or
> is it universal for every media player on my computer?

I'm having the same problem and no one on this forum has seemed to reply to
it. Any ideas on how to fix it?

"zachd [ms]" wrote:

>
> Is your CPU pegged? What types of movie files are affected?
>
> Downloading a codec would probably do absolutely nothing positive here.
>
> --
> (speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> Now Playing: "Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun" by "M83" in WMP10.
> --
>
> "JPepper" <JPepper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:78EB6F98-625F-4221-A62D-8B80A1F39B78@microsoft.com...
> > Whenever I play a movie file on WMP(10, the same problem existed with WMP
> > 9
> > and I updated to see if it would change anything), the audio plays at full
> > speed, but the video plays at 1/2-2/3rds speed. The same problems occur
> > with
> > several other media players, too: BSPlayer, Realplayer, DivX, Et Cetera.
> > Nero
> > Media Player, though, causes a especially peculiar result, the file will
> > skip
> > to arbitrary frames, contains no audio whatsoever, and will skim through a
> > file that normally has a 30 minute duration in 20 seconds in this manner.
> >
> > What's wrong/can it be fixed by downloading a codec for WMP or something,
> > or
> > is it universal for every media player on my computer?
>
>
>