10 sec delay when playing files in Vista's Windows Media Player

defender · 19 Jun 2007 at 15:54

Anyone else experienced this?

I've played about with settings but with no luck so far.

Quite annoying actually! :mad:

mrk · 19 Jun 2007 at 16:04

Do you have NERO7 installed?

bledd · 19 Jun 2007 at 16:08

are the files on your local hard drive? or a usb drive?

do you have antivirus installed, do you have windows defender real-time scanning enabled still?

OspreyO · 19 Jun 2007 at 23:05

I'm having the same problem. Vista Grrrr. I disabled Defenders auto scan, I though I had but I hadn't I'll see if that makes a difference.

mrk · 19 Jun 2007 at 23:07

So are you using Nero7?

I say this because I was using Nero7 and ONLY an update to the latest version resolved the exact same issue.

snowdog · 19 Jun 2007 at 23:08

Once the media library becomes quite big, it'll take longer to start the 1st time, ideally just launch wmp 1st, then later open the files, wich will cause them to play immediatly in the already open wmp.
Edit: hmm might be nero too, I also recently installed nero 7, didnt really give the lag much thought, thought it was media library casing it cos i recently added 2 folders to it with 20 gb's of music...

OspreyO · 19 Jun 2007 at 23:18

I don't use media library and I've Nero 6 so it must be something else.

Teaf · 20 Jun 2007 at 07:43

I get a 10s ish delay when trying to play DVD's in my DVD player in PC, but not with video files from the computer itself, not sure to which you are refering too.

something daft already!! · 20 Jun 2007 at 08:41

Could be a codec issue. Which codecs do you have? Have you tried a codec pack like "Vista codecs"? If you have codecs installed make sure media player isnt downloading codecs automatically. Untick the option this may help.