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    Problems streaming videos? (tz191)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by calot, Sep 6, 2007.

  1. calot

    calot Notebook Evangelist

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    Whenever I stream videos anywhere (youtube, metacafe, cnet, etc) I get unstable image until it finishes loading it. Is there any way I can fix that?
     
    calot, Sep 6, 2007
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  2. bmnotpls

    bmnotpls Notebook Deity

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    Short of installing XP, I don't know.

    I ended up installing XP myself .
     
    bmnotpls, Sep 6, 2007
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  3. bobsmells

    bobsmells Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can't believe I'm actullay responding to this. what an IDIOT. Instaling XP will not help, the problem is probably the internet connection speed, it's just not up to scratch to stream the videos from the start and needs to buffer the video first.
     
    bobsmells, Sep 9, 2007
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  4. zerodays

    zerodays Notebook Consultant

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    carlot, lol, you'd need to mention

    1. check whether your movies (suhc as flash, divx, DVDs) are playing fine from your HDD. (e.g., any offline files should do...)

    If they are fine, then I'd suggest its your internet connection,...
    But... if you can watch streaming 'fine' in the other computers having the same Internet....

    then..

    2. check whether your wireless connections are at least at G speed (e.g., 54Mbps). I used to get some lags in streaming when I used to use B (11Mbps)
    but even at G settings, wireless are kind of dodgy.

    the easiest way is to hook your TZ via Ethernet cable and see.
     
    zerodays, Sep 9, 2007
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