What causes Windows Vista Home Premium's Windows Media Player to have playback problems?
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop from Dell Malaysia in April 07. Whenever I switch to a different song e.g. Jingle Bells to We Wish You a Merry Christmas, it takes about one minute to change. Also, if I have a playlist of two songs e.g. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, the transition from one song to another is very poor. The song becomes very choppy during the ending of the song. What's the problem?
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All versions of Vista use WMP 11. From your description of the problem it seems like your computer might be on the low end of memory. According to Dell, the 6400 usually ships with 512MB RAM (click on Tech Specs tab): http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_6400 But according to just about every review of Vista, a computer needs at least 2GB RAM for best performance. (Microsoft says it will run with 512MB but even they recommend at least 1GB. And most Windows users double the Microsoft recommended RAM. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011523 http://www.support4vista.com/faq/recommended-ram-vista.htm The rule of thumb when using any Windows operating system is "the more RAM the better things work." Especially with audio and video. When you want to play a song or movie, it's being stored (buffered) in your RAM. If all of the song can be buffered in RAM, the playback is smooth and seamless. If all of the first song and part of the next song can be stored, the transition will be smooth and seamless. But if only part of the song is stored there may be a choppy effect while more of the song is transferred into the RAM or to wait while the second song goes into RAM. And that's the same reason why videos might seem to flicker during playback. I would almost bet your computer is short on RAM. But if you have 1GB RAM or more installed, you might want to go through these FAQs: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/default.mspx wwbgd
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