Problems with WM6 and Windows Media Player
 

Ever since I started using WM6 rom's (currently using verizonguy's devel4) I havent been able to watch movies. Not only the landscape/portrait bug where it stays in portrait mode, but I have another problem. The movies sometimes play for up to about 5 minutes, and then they get all slow and choppy, as if I have 5 other programs running, but I dont have anything running in the background, in fact, I just tried it off a hard reset, and it was slow and choppy straight from the beginning. And its not my movie file, Ive tried like 4 different files, and the one im trying right now I've already watched on my PPC before while using a WM5 rom, any ideas, or fixes?

oh come on, 50 views and no replies? Is anyone else even having this problem or is it just me?

Hi, I got the same problem too. My video file size is 15Mb

well mr. patient
I hadn't watched any movies since upgrading to verizonguys wm6 v4, so I had to do some tests, which included ripping a movie to watch for more than 7 minutes.

And no, I don't have this problem. After first veiwing several short movies 5-7 min each on random and repeat, and then finaly watching the first 25 min of a full length movie(187meg). No I am not having this problem.

dont patronize me.
thats weird, I wonder what the problem is then...


(since you dont know me in real life, I figure I should tell you the "dont patronize me" is just a joke, no offense meant by it)

what is the player your using?
what format is the movie?
what size is your file?
what is the bitrate used on the file?

Windows Media player
.wmv
bout 200 mb
about 256 i think, somewhere in that area

but remmber, I watched this file several times (2 hours long) without ever having problems on wm5

I havent used tcpmp because it wont play my wmv's and im on linux and havent found any good wmv to avi for linux yet

Well I have had better luck with avi's for larger files, but I'm not a linux guy so I don't have a good converter for you. I have not had this with smaller wmv's though.

Have you used S-Ktools to clean things up, that is always one of my first things I do, and I believe it helps with both speed and stability overall.

no, I just used windows media encoder (old files, made them a few months ago when I still used xp) and just shrunk them into a small enough file to fit onto my storage card

Not sure if this belongs in this thread or not, but it sounds kinda related...

I downloaded TCPMP for my 6700 when I was running WM5 and it worked fairly well on sites like google video and youtube.. my only complaint was that only the first few videos in a search (or even on the main page) would show up, scrolling down they'd just be empty boxes and no preview thumbnail. About 50% of the time, I'd find a video that would play and not return an error stating that the video is not a valid link. I guess I was ok with this setup because it's a hell of a lot better than what I've got now as far as video is concerned...

I'd like to add here that I am in love with Helmi_C's WM6! It's awesome! Payday I'm visiting PayPal.

So the problem now is, I can't even load the YouTube main page... it loads to about 90% and then locks up the phone, and I have to soft reset. Any ideas what might be causing this? I'm not sure what info you need from me, so ask and I'll get it.

Thanks in advance!

Don