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WIN Media Player always buffering

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by gweb09

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When I'm in Windows Media Player it is constantly buffering after about 1 minute of play time.Is this caused by my outdated 16 bit sound card or due to the lack of memory I have which is 64Mb?
I'm running WIN 98SE..Media Player ver.7..266MHz
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by thechas

It is a combination of your low RAM, and SLOW CPU.

I don't install Windows 98 on anything less than a 300MHz PC with 128MB of RAM.

If your system has the video built into the motherboard, that only compounds the problem.

If you are playing music from a website, or streaming audio, then an additional culprit may be your internet connection.

Chas

by rcom

The sound card will only affect quality. You just don't have the system resources to handle this. It will help to click pause until the total file is finished uploading. That way you can see the whole clip streaming smoothly. You can improve performance by upgrading ram, cpu, sound and video card. Guess a new computer wouldn't hurt.

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