I am having problems playing wmv files in playback. i have downloaded the videos to my local PC drive. I playback in wmv player, and 3 to 4 seconds into the clip(s) they freeze.... then sometimes randomly start again, sometimes not. I can move the slider bar further into the timeline on the video and see that there is more video in the clip as it will once again start playing for another 3 to 4 seconds then freeze again.

I was thinking it was a video acceleration problem so I lowered from full acceleration to full, then none, with no better results..

I also tried adjusting the buffering time, no different.

Is this a result of the encoding of the clips? If so what may be causing this?

is this the fault of my wmv player settings? If so, what should i adjust?

I've tried to search for answers but hope that someone on this board will be a wmv expert and offer some productive and useful advice.

thank you