I have lags when I watch videos?

Question

When I start watching videos from any website it doesn't even get past the first few seconds. Then the video freezes at like the first few seconds and it'll say loading 10 percent, then 20 percent, then 40 percent, and so on. And it takes like forever for the video to be loaded all completely. I been waiting 1 hour and all it has gotten to was 10:00 out of a 28 minute video I'm watching. This happens to every website I have gone to and I don't understand why. How can I fix this? I checked all of my internet connections and everything is fine. Sometimes this also happens when I'm trying to enter a website. The picture freezes and takes a while for everything to come up. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE PROB.? I need to know cause I'm watching one

Answer 1

Going by the practically non existent information you have given could be several things.



Has it just started or has it always happened? Dial up or broadband? Who is your provider? Are you on an unlimited or on a capped service? What speed are you paying for? Have you done a speed test? How much RAM have you got? Have you got programs running in the background? What browser are you using? Are you using wireless connections or a direct wired connection?



Basically your question is all waffle about buffering and no substance!



99% of the time the problem it is your internet connection is far too slow to stream properly. You need a constant speed of at least 2 Mb/s preferably 4 Mb/s to stream properly.

Answer 2

There are many things that can cause this. One obvious candidate is problems with your Internet connection; another is if your computer is simply too slow to run the video in real-time.



If it's just a slow or flaky Internet connection, one thing you could try is downloading the video in its entirety then watching it from your hard drive. Some sites offer a link that will let you do this, while on YouTube you can more or less do this by pausing after the first few seconds and waiting until the bar at the bottom turns entirely red; but a better method is to use a Firefox add-on such as DownloadHelper. You might also need a video player that can play FLV format (Windows Media Player cannot do this, at least not by default).



If you always get this problem, even with videos you've downloaded in their entirety, then it could be an encoding issue, but more likely your computer is just too slow. I am about to seriously upgrade (bordering on replace) my own rig for precisely this reason; todays HD videos tend to skip and stutter on my current desktop machine, which is the AMD equivalent of an early Pentium 4. My laptop, running a Core 2 Duo chip, has no such problem.

Answer 3

You can download ccleaner for free here: http://bit.ly/1Bk5V5C



First open CCleaner

Go to the Cleaner tab and you will be confronted by a very confusing lineup of checkboxes.

To make this brief, below is my recommended setup:

Under internet explorer check temporary internet files, cookies, and last download location. Most users don't really need this stuff. keep history and bookmarks unchecked, history is a maybe, but you don't want to lose bookmarked sites. You can normally leave Windows Explorer, System, and Advanced alone.

Run CCleaner and it will start deleting files.

afterward it will present you with a list of the files deleted, you really don't need to go through it as it will be several pages long.

The registry cleaner is recommended for slightly more advanced users. Use it after uninstalling programs as they will often leave behind incorrect registry entries.

If you decide to run Registry cleaner then review the items detected and always back up the registry (I keep a folder aside for this)

The Tools tab lets you uninstall programs and set startup programs. Why do you need this if Windows has all of these features? Especially with Vista Home Ed. The windows defender software explorer( startup programs) doesn't pick up some entries (however software explorer is easier to use).

Using CCleaner to uninstall programs and then check for leftover registry entries takes less time.

Under Options you can determine how CCleaner cleans your files. I leave this alone.

Answer 4

i dont think there is a problem long video's need time to load is all.

i think the connection does have something to do with it bc when i have one bar of signal it takes hours for a movie to load but when i have full connection it can take an hour at most. i guess it's just the price we pay for pirating.

Answer 5

Your problem is your internet connection speed. To fix it you need to contact your ISP (internet service provider).



One other thing you can check is to make sure that all other programs that access the internet are closed out and shut down.