Win 10 video playback stops working after a few minutes

Akagi · 1 Sep 2019 at 10:38

Slightly odd... Was watching YouTube videos, and all of a sudden the video froze and wouldn't play any further, this is the same for videos on other sites, in different browsers, and videos saved to the machine (of various formats) - they open, show the first frame, but don't play.

Restarted the machine and all was well for about 5 minutes, then it happened again.

Rinse and repeat a 3rd time...

Windows 10 Pro 64
i7 2700K
P8Z68-V Pro
4x 4GB Vengeance PC3-12800U
2x R9 390 Tri-X 8GB CFX
Samsung 830 256GB SSD

Ive had issues with the SSD before (so I thought) but it seems fine now after a new Windows install (a few months ago)

an0nym0us · 1 Sep 2019 at 11:08

If you open up Task Manager, are there any strange background processes hogging resources?

I remember reading someone having similar issues and there was something like audiodg.exe messing things up.

Akagi · 1 Sep 2019 at 11:09

I'll have a look see. I didn't notice anything when I had a cursory glance.

Akagi · 1 Sep 2019 at 14:47

Went off to have a lay down for an hour or so, came back, re-started the PC again, and its been fine for the past half an hour so far... Very strange!

an0nym0us · 1 Sep 2019 at 16:28

Acme said:
Went off to have a lay down for an hour or so, came back, re-started the PC again, and its been fine for the past half an hour so far... Very strange!

Fingers crossed it stays that way!

Akagi · 14 Sep 2019 at 00:29

Nope it has happened another 10 or so times, each time temporarily fixed with a reboot... Cant see anything in the event log which could be related, or in task manager...

an0nym0us · 14 Sep 2019 at 07:36

Try booting from a Linux USB live disk to see if the problem persists.