Windows Media player pauses

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Windows Media player 11 pauses when streaming Internet radio stations.

And going to another station, there is still a wait till the pause stops and the stream begins again. The pause is about 30 seconds or so, Where the stream just stops.  My ISP does not block anything.  The CPU is still showing as the Media player is functioning, but waiting for the stream to come back. It does not affect browsing or any program downloads.

The stations are pingable during the pause. It happens whether I use the FireFox media player plugin or the stand alone Windows media player 11.

I'll probably figure it out eventually. Or I'll try a re-install of it.

These are the stations.

http://www.lynxradionetwork.com/crikclassic.asx

http://www.9412.com/rockchick/asx.asp

http://www.sky.fm/classicrock/

Or what is a good free media player as a replacement? 

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So a reinstall of Windows media player 11 and it did nothing to stop the pauses. Another 7ish months till the next system build, with most probably Windows 7. I do like the Beta version of Windows 7.

But just downloaded SonGBird.

http://getsonGBird.com/

And the add-on of "shoutcast radio" for my streaming radio stations.

And no pauses. YAY... 

[tommie gorman]

Or just grab a different player. I like the GOM pretty well.

http://filehippo.com/software/multimedia/

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So anyone have the Instant answer to what is possibly a "Buffer Underrun" on my system of XP SP3?

Is it the CPU or ????

So even with using SonGBird media player to stream online radio, I am off and on getting the stream stopping(from 3 seconds to 20 seconds to having to manually reinitialize the stream).. On my other two systems there is no buffering.

Now an interesting thing is that a volcano website that I can watch Volcano movies at, the Quicktime video is very stop and start and skip frames(and does not ever play the frames smooth at any time), But on the other systems it does not happen like that. They are smooth.

Link to movie stream. Hawaii.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2009/Jan/Mar25to30HMMcycles.mov

Interesting thing is when I have a audio stream running and I screw around with the QuickTime Volcano movie, The audio stream will actually backup a half second.

8 or 9 year old Trash Compaq system. AMD Athlon 2200+(1.8GHz)processor. 768MB ram. Newish Hard Drives. High speed DSL Internet of 5200Kbps. This has been going on steadily for about 2 months, but slightly happening for about 5 months(just before the hard drive change outs).  But does not visually affect downloading or webpage loading or SpeedTest speed results. And no problems burning discs.  But I can see slight pauses as the CPU glitches during multiple actions wanting it's processing.

I've run CPUStabTest and does not crash the system. But it really slows down any program loading with it running.

Right now there is no buffering stops. But this afternoon, it keep buffering. And it's not the ISP, as my other systems can stream the same audio at the same time and no buffering.

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Test Time:: 2009/04/10 - 10:58pm

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