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I have some sort of video stabilization enabled on my PC that I did not do myself. Doesn't have to do with browsers as the problem appears in multiple browsers and the Movie Player. Essentially the problem is two things: The letterboxing seems to be consistently the same, making video get cut...

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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21382 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 21382 Bringing HDR support to color managed apps HDR mode changes the behavior of some creative and artistic apps that use International Color...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21376 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 21376 Updated Segoe UI font We are introducing Segoe UI Variable which includes an optical axis so that font outlines can scale seamlessly from small...

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...

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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 use MPCHC to watch TV shows and movies on my, and I have it set to turn the monitor off when it reaches the end of the playlist. Recently I installed some video editors to try, and now when MPCHC turns off the monitor, it wakes up again after a couple seconds. I uninstalled the video editing...

A while back, I updated my computer to the most recent windows version and for a while the pictures of the videos that I have on my computer used to show up, but now it just shows the picture of the program I use to play them.

When trying to play video from one particular site after about 20 secs this message pops up,see attachment.its driving me nuts.anyone know whats causing this.Running Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge BrowserThank You.greyhound

Hi Recently I created a new program thinking it was an additional one. It wiped a lot of my original program files, some of which I reloaded from disk, but a number which I couldn’t. Today I ran a program called “Glary utilities” which analyses the system. In “disk space analyser” there are 2...

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)

Hello I tried to install a software for iphone earlier. Since then my pc going crazy Once I log in, only the icons on my desktop showing up, it takes some minutes till icons on my taskbar showing up. Internet doesn’t work at all, cant even conncet it, only flight mode function is available. when...

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...

I have 2 files one from 6/26/19 and the other is from 6/27/19. All MP4 videos i take before the 1st date play audio everything else I've taken after then has no audio playback for me on my PC. I can open any of the files on my phone and hear it in which ever media place Ive put it...