Maybe one out of ten. My internet connection is fine, the buffer is full, but some shows I just cannot watch on Hulu - now it’s the first episode of Flash Forward, last year it was that episode of Bones with the funeral. They just stutter and stutter no matter what, and the audio and video get a bit out of sync and it’s obnoxious. I’ve been trying to watch Flash Forward for days and every time it’s like this. Am I doing something wrong?
You may be running some background task that is stealing time from your foreground application. If you’re doing WIN XP, run MSCONFIG and disable most everything in the startup menu, reboot, and see if that makes a difference. If it does, re-enable stuff until you find the culprit.
It’s our media computer - we don’t let stuff on it.
Also, I’ve successfully watched another show in the week I’ve been trying to watch this damned episode.
So what’s in your startup group? Do you have hard drive indexing enabled (turn it off)?
It’d be far more likely that the OP is using some other high-bandwidth application at the same time on any of her computers. Downloading a file at the same time you’re trying to use streaming media will usually have really bad effects on the streaming media.
I have the same problem, but with Porky Pig cartoons.
What speed is the connection? There are some shows on Hulu that stop and start constantly with my connection because of bandwidth. The other issue I have with Hulu is in full screen mode the video locks and only sound continues. Once I drop down to windowed mode the video plays fine again. It would help to know if you mean the show stops and starts or if you mean some other thing is going on when you say stutters.
Maybe some family member/roommate/etc is hogging your bandwidth at certain times? IME, any decent broadband connection can handle Hulu and its like, but it’ll start falling apart if someone else on the connection starts browsing around Youtube or torrenting.
I’ve been having the same problem recently as well. Exact same computer, nothing new running in the background, and no one else using the internet. Even with a full buffer, it stutters. It’s never done that before.