Hey Ok seems that everytime i play a media file in media player, it sometimes freezes for a sec, then continues, does this multiple times throughout the file. Also got a file thats an hour long, displaying as 1 minute, gets to the end of the one minute then stops. if i rewind it a little bit, its halfway through the film. weird huh!!!! its defitenely not the file because this is doing it with most my files, i even reinstalled the latest microsoft media player but its still doing it. Its also a brand new computer. i didnt have this problem on my old computer. is it possible for someone to provide me with a solution?

STeVo: A possibility is bad codecs. There's a link below for WMP 9 codecs. Lots of other D/L sites, just Google around. LINK Solarian

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