I need help with videos

dulce said:

Can some one please point me in the right direction to be able to view videos on my computer? There have been some interesting videos posted that I would like to watch and can't. The videos will load but stop running after 2 or 3 seconds. This happens with all types of videos. Obviously I am missing a program which allows me to watch them.

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I assume you are using Windows Media Player and that it is damaged, for it to play for 2 or 3 seconds then stop.
You could try updating it, or try another player, like Real Player or Quick Time.
If you need any of the above, send me a PM and I'll hook you up.

PS: If you're streaming them it could be your internet connection, so try right clicking, and "save as", then watch it from your own hard drive. If that does not work either, it must be the player.

I was having trouble viewing videos, viewing pics in email and also java problems. All of these problems disappeared when I downloaded and installed the Firefox browser and stopped using the Windows Internet Explorer browser.

your internet connection is slow. It buffers up the video and then plays it and then stops to buffer it up more and then play another 5 seconds. You have 2 options.
1. when the video is playing, press the pause button and let the video get downloaded for a while and then click the play button. Now you can watch a good length of video before it stops again if the video buffer runs out so you do the same trick again till the whole video is downloaded and then play the remaining portion. I assume you have 256K internet flash.
Option # 2: upgrade your internet service to 768Kbs and now you will eliminate almost all of your video stopping problems.
AZB

Download the DivX Codec and DivX Player - DivX Movies

Go to this site and download this:

DivX codec v6.4.0 for Windows XP/2000

azabache said:

I was having trouble viewing videos, viewing pics in email and also java problems. All of these problems disappeared when I downloaded and installed the Firefox browser and stopped using the Windows Internet Explorer browser.

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That is what happened to me as well.