Streaming Media Plays Too Fast

[TenaciousJP]

Hello.

As of late, I seem to be having a problem with streaming video and/or audio, especially ASF/WMV streams.

The video and audio will play too fast, resulting in the video finishing very quickly and the audio sounding like chipmunks.

I've been spending the past hour researching this problem on the web and trying out various solutions. One solution was to update my sound card driver. I did just that, and there was no change. Another solution was to turn off hardware acceleration for video in Windows Media Player. That didn't help, either.

It's even giving me problems with audio-only streams, too.

Also, these problems exist in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Has anyone encountered a problem like this? Any ideas of what the problem could be and what I could do to fix it?

Thank you very much for your time and help.

[TenaciousJP]

Forgot to mention: even if I right click on the video and set the play speed to "slow," it's still too fast to understand.

[marco49]

I am having the EXACT same problem. I have no idea what's causing it. Im using IE 6.

[marco49]

But sometimes it doesn't happen. I can usually close IE and open it up again and it will work sometimes....

[TenaciousJP]

Thanks for replying. I almost forgot to update this with a solution for my problem. Hopefully it will help you as well.

I was running Windows Media Player 9 because I never bothered to upgrade. I would use VLC for all my playing needs. However, I decided to finally upgrade to WMP 11, the latest version.

Now, videos work perfectly. The only problem that I ran into was that I would get no audio for streaming videos that had mono audio. This quick registry fix solved that problem:


Go to the following registry folder:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ NodeCLSIDs\{95037DA1-6ED9-4B27-8CFF-9AD3DFB0B2F2}]

double click on 'Auto Insert" on the right side of the box.

Change the Value from "1" to "0" and click OK.



I don't know if that will solve your problem, but if you aren't running the latest WMP, maybe it will. Best of luck.

[marco49]

I tried installing the runtime 11 drivers and that didn't work. However the driver upgrades did fix a probelm i was having playing .wmv files on my pc.
Im going to try and upgrade to the latest vesrion of WMP since im running v.9 now and see if that gets rid of the chipmunks. Im probably not going to alter the Registry since last time i played with it, I seriously messed up the PC.
Thanks for your help
I am curious though as to why this happend all of a sudden...