Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / August 2007

Whenever I play a media file using Windows Media player (or any other media
player for that matter) the media player hangs (freezes) if I use pause or
step or slow mo etc, repeatedly.

It works OK at first but then will always freeze eventually if I continue to
use pause or slo mo repeatedly - this is obviously not related to a specific
media player because it happens with all players I have installed.

I am not able to close the media player down after this, even if I use the
task manager to 'end task' - it simply stays open but in a frozen state. I am
also not able to open another media player in another window and the only way
I can rectify the situation is by rebooting completely.

Any ideas will be most appreciated - thanks in advance.

Windows XP home edition (sp2), Windows media player v10