I installed a new video/graphics card anyway, and now we can play 3D games with nice graphics and smoother framerates. VLC Player managed to play the HD video clips just fine, no problem. When I plugged in a separate video/graphics card with 512MB of video memory built-in to the card, the problem ceased.īefore installing the plug-in video/graphics card, I downloaded and installed the latest version of VLC Media Player (a free download). I should mention this all happened on Win7 Home Premium 64-bit version. Also, it would freeze after waking from Sleep state. It would remain frozen for 3 or 4 minutwes then spontaneously reboot.

This caused Windows Media Player to freeze after about 20 seconds of playing an HD video clip, HD movie trailer, etc.

However, the maximum amount of RAM it uses is 256MB. My 2-year-old motherboard includes the usual built-in video chip which uses some of the computer’s RAM memory to boost performance.

Windows 7 Tech Support person Alex told me this a very helpful guy. I discovered that Windows 7 / Windows Media Player working in combination needs 512MB of video memory in order to play HD video. VCL player makes for a better default player and is far more stable. I’ve had similar problems with WMP latest and a few previous versions.Īlso, it can’t seem to handle large avi files > 1-1.5 GB sound will be way out of sync with video if I brouse through the movie by clicking various Have any updates for Windows 7 Media Player come out yet. At the point where Windows 7 Media Player finds the problem, Media Player Classic will “hic-up”, but continue playing.Īnyone know how I can resolve this problem? How do you report such a problem to Microsoft.

In debugging this problem, I installed Media Player Classic, which had no problems playing entire AVI file. For different AVI files, the problem may occur at different points in the playing, but for the same file, it always exits at exactly the same point, each time. But for some AVI files, Media Player will stop playing, issue a message it found a problem with the file, and exit. Windows 7 plays AVI files without having to find other codecs.

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