video playback

I've been having this problem for a while now, and I stopped using my Windows desktop and started using my Chromebook instead. I just got back into using my desktop again, and I restarted it factory fresh. After installing all possible Windows updates, installing the latest graphics drivers...

HI, I am getting frequents black screen of deaths. Very few times, what I see is Black screen while working on After effects or browsing internet or watching movies, today I got 2 black screen while playing multilayer MW3 and even on Batman. What it does? The screen goes black and CPU is...

Everything lags on my kids pc. its a Dell Core2Duo, not an amazing system but my kids like to sit & watch funny youtube video's & stuff. Its got a HD3780 GPU in & everything is dust free as I clean it often. I have no idea why it's doing it or what could be causing it. When I say everything lags...

Hallo,i am new user for this forum i want to ask about my pc problem My pc have this problem since 1 year ago It always happen when i watch video,booting,and can happen at any time while using computer My PC Spec: Intel(R)Core(TM)i7 CPU 870 @2.930 RAM 4 GB 32 Bit OS Windows 7 VGA NVDIA...

Im using 64 bit home premium and it used to work fine till a month or two ago. The computer constantly refreshes ever 1 - 2 minutes, as a result whatever program im using at the time refreshes too. This stops me typing on Word, it causes whatever game i might be playing to crash to the taskbar...

I get notified by Firefox that windowsforum.com requests to activate Adobe Flash even if there is no video or anything else that would need this plugin - maybe I miss something, though. How come?

About 3 weeks ago I started having strange behavior on my computer. Web pages suddenly scrolling to the bottom of pages, cursors moving all the way to the right of a box, the play/pause icons in VLC flashing on and off and video not playing correctly. This only happened intermittently. The...

Hi, recently i have been experiencing some problems with my recently upgraded desktop... BSOD occurs almost every time i try to play a game or watch a video... very frustrating, this is the last entry I obtained after BSOD occurred. I also uploaded my w7F file along with the file generated when...

Hey guys, this BSOD happend twice while i was watching Youtube. Windows 8.1 install is 5 days old. Please help!

Connected Win 8 PC to TX-L42E6B TV using HDMI cable. BIOS screen shows then it goes black when the OS loads. Added a dumb monitor on VGA. That stays black during initial boot, but becomes the monitor as soon as Windows starts. Going into Screen resolution only shows one screen (the old...

Hey! I just happened to switch over to Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. I previously had WinXP SP3. Now, i have an old laptop: Core2Duo T5200 1,6 GHz, Intel GMA 950 (256 MB) and 2 GB DDR2. The problem is after switching to Win8 YouTube videos lag in normal view (480p, 720p, doesn't matter), and they...

Hello everybody, I'm from Buenos Aires City, Argentina I'm desperate. I don't know what to do. I've been having a lot problems with my laptop (Lenovo y560) since last thursday (February 13th). I don't know why, but, out of nowhere, random BSOD's have been appearing every single day since that...

So, I must say I'm at my wits end. I've been getting complete system freezes while going about my business, happening while doing various things. I could be simply browsing, playing games, watching video, and sometimes doing nothing. I don't BSOD, everything just locks. The mouse cursor won't...

I've been using Movie Maker to edit videos I've taken with my iPhone. All I do is cut out dead air, and divide files into two for YouTube upload. All this has been just fine. However, lately I've been running into a really odd and frustrating problem. I'll open up my video file with Movie...

My PC ignores all power settings and hibernates after approx 5 minutes of user inactivity. It is a Dell Vostro 200, which I had been running successfully on Windows 8 Pro. The problem appears to have been the result of upgrading to Windows 8.1. Regardless of the power scheme settings, the PC...

Although I have had it work properly on my system in the past, it has been a while. Now when I select a video to play, the video loads and plays in ultra slow motion. This has continued even after a clean installation of W7, and with different video cards. It does work properly when booted...

Something odd has been going on when watching Hulu videos that have an advertisement by Kay Jewelers, that I don't understand. Adobe Flash Player pops this dialog: I'm not quite certain the function of the two buttons, but I'm guessing that "Dismiss" means to abort something, and "Continue"...

Just did the upgrade and it went smoothly-I THOUGHT. Now strange issue. Some videos, the sound is distorted. Some all is OK. Computer sound card is top of the line. All AVI videos and music files including WAV on my system are fine. It is only when I play SOME videos in a browser ( I use and...

Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...

Something happened and I could no longer watch videos on Netflix due to the above error (on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine). Googling, I discovered this is a Silverlight error. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight, but that made no difference. Also tried deleting the file...