Playing Downloaded Videos

[Slogger]

Bearing in mind that I am an 80 year old computer "nerd", can someone help me with a little problem. When playing downloaded videos my computer stops for a milisecond every 4 - 5 ceconds. This ruins the enjoyment of the programme - especially music or singing. If there is an EASY answer to my problem please let me know. Thank you.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Assuming your machine is fairly new and you have a decent connection try a different video player - Divx is safe and used by millions of people.

[SlackAlice]

Not enough information.
What are you trying to play the Video on, pc, mac, android tablet, smartphone?
What program/app are you using to play the video?

[bhg481]

When you say "downloaded videos", do you mean that you have saved them onto your hard-drive or are you playing them as they stream?
If you have saved them, have you defragged your hard drive lately?
If you are streaming them, is your internet connection fast enough?

[TheChair]

Do you actually mean "downloaded"? This is where you download the entire video, and then play it. If you mean "streamed", which is where (like YouTube) you watch the video as it downloads, the pauses will be caused by buffering, which is what happens when your Internet connection can't download fast enough to keep up with the player.
In the case of YouTube you can solve this problem by clicking on play, and then immediately clicking pause. The video will continue downloading (as indicated by the progress bar turning a lighter shade of grey). Once a reasonable amount of video has downloaded, click play, and as long as the red progress bar never catches up with the light grey section, the video will play fine.
If the red bar catches up with the light grey section, that means you are back to attempting to watch in real time, and the player will resume pausing to allow buffering.

[Slogger]

Thank you all.