video playback

In the age of streaming, where your entertainment is but a click away, managing video playback settings on your Windows device can significantly enhance your multimedia experience. Whether you're binge-watching your favorite series on Netflix or putting together a personal picture slideshow...

An article from Windows Report discusses exciting developments for Google Chrome as it prepares to enhance support for the upcoming Windows 11 24H2. Google has recognized the need for smoother video playback across multi-monitor setups and is working to tackle frame drop issues that users have...

Windows 11 is set to introduce a significant enhancement to its High Dynamic Range (HDR) functionality, providing users with a more refined experience when streaming content from major platforms like Netflix and YouTube. This change, detailed recently on The Verge, brings a new toggle feature...

Hi all, So I have this very strange issue which I've never encountered and it suddenly started and now it always happens. I'm using dolby atmos for spatial audio (this is important). When I pause a video (on any browser) it feels like my sound cuts out and that is has a massive delay before I...

Hello, Occasionally, when watching a video* through Google Chrome, I notice CPU usage goes way up. Resource Monitor shows it's due to a svchost process in charge of "DComLaunch, PlugPlay, Power". For one, Sysinternals' psservice.exe says that the PlugPlay service is...

I have a partner with Dementia who has difficulties using a mouse etc. She like to watch music videos I have downloaded for her. I would like to set up WMP so that: It starts when computer starts A playlist plays automatically Next video plays automatically The videos are full screen when played...

Lenovo ideapad 330 Windows 10 Vers 21H2 Asus USB external DVD-RW My laptop has recently stopped being able to access the USB DVD drive through File Explorer. The drive shows up in explorer but I cannot write to, or read from, it. I cannot transfer data files to it as I used to or Format it...

My Audio Technica 2020 USB Mic is causing my video player to play videos in reverse, and in like hyper speed. It does it on every video player on my pc, vlc, movie player, it doesnt matter. It also causes me sometimes to not be able to highlight and copy text on applications such as discord...

Last week my PC performed an auto update and ever since I'm experiencing one ongoing problem. After booting my system at the start of each day I have noticed that as soon as I play any streaming video my system freezes seconds later. My video card is running the latest drivers. I'm at a...

I used to be able to watch a movie on my TV from my laptop. A week ago my laptop no longer recognized the TV. In Action Centre my Bluetooth states "Not Connected". My Bluetooth drivers are up to date. I have deleted Bluetooth and restarted my computer. I have HDMI cables. I plug one end to my...

OK so I normally use Linux as an operating system which I usually use to watch Amazon Prime videos on. I have just reinstalled it on my SSD with a newer version of Linux and have had issues this evening running Amazon Prime video owing I presume to codecs and the dreaded annoyance of DRM (which...

I have been getting BSODs since at least December of last year. They'll just suddenly show up out of the blue when I'm in the middle of something. Sometimes it is a few days between bluescreens, occasionally its a few hours between bluescreens. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for...

Hi I have just changed from the unstable Firefox to Google Chrome as my main browser. I am trying to use Google Drive to transfer files from one computer to another and to share with other friends. The problem Is that I am unable to play my MP4 and MOV home videos . It can open Word and JPEG...

Beginning last week, Windows 10 has begun to shut itself down randomly. I will be working away on some task or watching a video and boom, the screen goes dark. The power is on but the computer is off. It happened twice Wednesday evening and twice on Friday evening. It has not happened every day...

Hello, When I view a video in Microsoft Edge the sound is OFF. I need to put it ON clicking the microphone in the video. How can I put it always ON or Off ? Thanks and best regards

I cannot watch videos on youtube on my laptop recently, which ends up causing my laptop to crash and refuse to start up. I'm not sure if some of the possible causes for the OSOD matches with my possible cause. However, it exclusively happens when I play youtube videos, except once when I was...

I am unable to persuade W10 to accept VLC media player as default music/video program. Can anybody advise me? It's installed on Drive D, not the Windows Drive - I don't know if this makes any difference. (C:\ is a small SSD which I want to reserve for stuff which needs to load fast)

Hi. I am having a problem playing videos in full screen. No matter what player I use they will freeze. They play fine if they're not in full screen. They will play in full screen if I move the mouse constantly. But if I stop moving the mouse the screen freezes. The audio will still play. I have...

when I play games or watch videos it starts freezing every few minute or 30 seconds or something freezing its annoying I have 8 gb ram gtx 960 and i5 processor it should play a game like wow or lotro without freezing I was playing without freezing this started recently pls help me fix using...

Attention: windowsForum members: I have a web page that serves up fine ( my personal computer is configured as a dedicated web server ), except that the embedded video in that web page does not work ( it will not work in either the Vivaldi or Opera web browsers, for example ). I just...