Audio playback stutters when downloading - what's problem?

I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
application based playback online as well.

The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
would be ok after that.

Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
finished it was fine.

Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music while
playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
download.

Can anyone help?

I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
application based playback online as well.

The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
would be ok after that.

Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
finished it was fine.

Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music while
playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
download.

Can anyone help?

"inshaala" <inshaala@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC97FC6B-E1C4-4FB4-AD8B-E1D655360E71@microsoft.com...

> I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
> application based playback online as well.
>
> The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
> would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
> would be ok after that.
>
> Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
> player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
> finished it was fine.
>
> Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
> problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music
> while
> playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
> download.
>
> Can anyone help?

Bandwidth problem ::

a) the connection with the video site is lousy, so your phrase "The first
time .... " makes sense, it can be quite normal especially at peak times.
Use one that has a better download speed.

b) your downloading bandwidth is bad - you have dial up or ADSL ? Check with
your provider what speeds you should be getting.

Run Spybot and your antivirus to make sure you haven't "caught" anything
nasty that takes up bandwidth.

Cheers,
Jerry
Jerry

"inshaala" <inshaala@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC97FC6B-E1C4-4FB4-AD8B-E1D655360E71@microsoft.com...

> I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
> application based playback online as well.
>
> The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
> would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
> would be ok after that.
>
> Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
> player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
> finished it was fine.
>
> Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
> problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music
> while
> playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
> download.
>
> Can anyone help?

Bandwidth problem ::

a) the connection with the video site is lousy, so your phrase "The first
time .... " makes sense, it can be quite normal especially at peak times.
Use one that has a better download speed.

b) your downloading bandwidth is bad - you have dial up or ADSL ? Check with
your provider what speeds you should be getting.

Run Spybot and your antivirus to make sure you haven't "caught" anything
nasty that takes up bandwidth.

Cheers,
Jerry
Jerry

"inshaala" <inshaala@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC97FC6B-E1C4-4FB4-AD8B-E1D655360E71@microsoft.com...

> I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
> application based playback online as well.
>
> The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
> would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
> would be ok after that.
>
> Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
> player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
> finished it was fine.
>
> Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
> problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music
> while
> playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
> download.
>
> Can anyone help?

Bandwidth problem ::

a) the connection with the video site is lousy, so your phrase "The first
time .... " makes sense, it can be quite normal especially at peak times.
Use one that has a better download speed.

b) your downloading bandwidth is bad - you have dial up or ADSL ? Check with
your provider what speeds you should be getting.

Run Spybot and your antivirus to make sure you haven't "caught" anything
nasty that takes up bandwidth.

Cheers,
Jerry
Jerry

"inshaala" <inshaala@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC97FC6B-E1C4-4FB4-AD8B-E1D655360E71@microsoft.com...

> I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
> application based playback online as well.
>
> The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
> would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
> would be ok after that.
>
> Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
> player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
> finished it was fine.
>
> Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
> problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music
> while
> playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
> download.
>
> Can anyone help?

Bandwidth problem ::

a) the connection with the video site is lousy, so your phrase "The first
time .... " makes sense, it can be quite normal especially at peak times.
Use one that has a better download speed.

b) your downloading bandwidth is bad - you have dial up or ADSL ? Check with
your provider what speeds you should be getting.

Run Spybot and your antivirus to make sure you haven't "caught" anything
nasty that takes up bandwidth.

Cheers,
Jerry
Jerry

"Orange" wrote:

>
> "inshaala" <inshaala@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FC97FC6B-E1C4-4FB4-AD8B-E1D655360E71@microsoft.com...

> > I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
> > application based playback online as well.
> >
> > The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
> > would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
> > would be ok after that.
> >
> > Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
> > player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
> > finished it was fine.
> >
> > Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
> > problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music
> > while
> > playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
> > download.
> >
> > Can anyone help?

>
> Bandwidth problem ::
>
> a) the connection with the video site is lousy, so your phrase "The first
> time .... " makes sense, it can be quite normal especially at peak times.
> Use one that has a better download speed.
>
> b) your downloading bandwidth is bad - you have dial up or ADSL ? Check with
> your provider what speeds you should be getting.
>
> Run Spybot and your antivirus to make sure you haven't "caught" anything
> nasty that takes up bandwidth.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry
> Jerry
>
>
>

Hey - thanks for the reply but that isnt the problem either. The game patch
is completely unrelated to what i am playing. If i play music from my media
player (hard drive) with no downloads running then it is stutter free, add an
unrelated download and it isnt. Does it matter that the music is on a
separate drive to where the download is going to? could that be a problem?

So it cant be a bandwidth problem as the two arent competing in terms of
bandwidth - which is why i was preempting the system resources bit...

(remember it is also the same for playback while downloading - it stutters
when it is downloading but stops stuttering when the video/mp3 is completely
cached - i could see the potential as a bandwidth problem but this happens
even if the cache level is further on from where i am in playing it)

Any other ideas?

"Orange" wrote:

>
> "inshaala" <inshaala@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FC97FC6B-E1C4-4FB4-AD8B-E1D655360E71@microsoft.com...

> > I'm on WM10 but am fairly sure this is a general problem as it happens in
> > application based playback online as well.
> >
> > The first time i noticed it was watching a music video online - the music
> > would stutter continuously until the whole song was buffered and then it
> > would be ok after that.
> >
> > Just now i was downloading a rather big game patch and my windows media
> > player was stuttering while the downloading was taking place. When it
> > finished it was fine.
> >
> > Thinking about things i expect if i were to tell you now that it isnt a
> > problem with system resources as i have checked that - i can play music
> > while
> > playing on resource hog games - so it must be something messing up on
> > download.
> >
> > Can anyone help?

>
> Bandwidth problem ::
>
> a) the connection with the video site is lousy, so your phrase "The first
> time .... " makes sense, it can be quite normal especially at peak times.
> Use one that has a better download speed.
>
> b) your downloading bandwidth is bad - you have dial up or ADSL ? Check with
> your provider what speeds you should be getting.
>
> Run Spybot and your antivirus to make sure you haven't "caught" anything
> nasty that takes up bandwidth.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry
> Jerry
>
>
>

Hey - thanks for the reply but that isnt the problem either. The game patch
is completely unrelated to what i am playing. If i play music from my media
player (hard drive) with no downloads running then it is stutter free, add an
unrelated download and it isnt. Does it matter that the music is on a
separate drive to where the download is going to? could that be a problem?

So it cant be a bandwidth problem as the two arent competing in terms of
bandwidth - which is why i was preempting the system resources bit...

(remember it is also the same for playback while downloading - it stutters
when it is downloading but stops stuttering when the video/mp3 is completely
cached - i could see the potential as a bandwidth problem but this happens
even if the cache level is further on from where i am in playing it)

Any other ideas?