Whenever I view streaming videos on sites like YouTube, online news pages with video, etc, and click to maximize the video to full screen, the video will inevitably play for a minute or 2, and then freeze. The audio will continue as normal, and all other PC functions remain fine, but the video will freeze, until I go back to the smaller view. No freezing occurs in less than maximized viewing. The pc, which I built about 2.5 years ago, runs a Powercolor ATI Raden X800 vid card on a Asus P5B deluxe mobo w/a 2.4 GHZ core 2 duo CPU and 2 gig of RAM. OS is XP home, SP3. I use this PC extensively for playing video of all kinds and have never had ANY trouble except with full-screening these streams. No trouble at all playing DVD's or any vid file available in Zoom, WMP, VLC, etc, but these seemingly pedestrian streaming vids always lock. As a test, I simultaneously played a 4.5 gig .MPG in VLC and a 11.6 gig .MKV in Zoom, both on-screen at the same time, & both playing on 2 monitors at once, the VGA'd desktop LCD & a cloned Plasma in another room which is connected by DVI/HDMI. Both videos played perfectly. It's hard to imagine streaming vids place more of a demand on system resources than that. Also, my cable internet connection, which I monitor while dl'ing, is a rock-solid 16 meg. Again, happens in both FF & IE. Anyway to fix this? It's really getting to be a PITA.
I have not experienced this issue however you may want to upgrade your video card to at least the ATI 3450 it's not expensive and can handle HD content and larger screen sizes. I built a home theater pc using the AMD/ATI Foxconn 780G chipset and the above mentioned card this also enables sound through the hdmi cable. I have 4gb ram, and a low 45watt DualCore 2.5ghz AMD processor. The only time I have had any freezing is on Fear.net but its the sites lousy servers, HULU, CRACKLE, YOUTUBE, TV.com all work just fine.
If it's the vid card, why doesn't it have any trouble displaying any other types of video, regardless of resolution or screen size (card drives a 22" LCD & 58" plasma simultaneously with no difficulty)?
ATI does have a newer driver/catalyst control center. I've been a bit reluctant to upgrade these, since everything works great, except these streaming vids. Machine is dual boot, maybe I'll try installing the new driver etc. on the 2ndary OS 1st.
