Timeline for Video and audio in all applications unable to play past first frame/second
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| Aug 12, 2014 at 16:29 | comment | added | doggyTourettes | Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox, and seeing if this helps the problem with online content? | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:08 | comment | added | zeel | Tried installing codecs as recommended, no improvement. MPC stops responding when I try to open a video in it. VLC shows the first frame, as usual. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 10:49 | comment | added | harrymc | VLC codecs are extremely reliable. Also it's highly unlikely for such a serious problem to exist in more than one codec. The problem must be in some software that is common to all codecs and players, meaning the video driver or even Windows. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 10:33 | comment | added | doggyTourettes | Indeed, but if VLC can't play it MPC can, normally, and vice versa. As I'd mentioned above, the idea of my post was to discount codec problems before moving on. Start with the easy stuff, eh? | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 9:58 | comment | added | harrymc | VLC has its own codecs for most video formats, so this answer doesn't address the problem. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 9:47 | history | answered | doggyTourettes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |