Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / January 2005

Either the Mac i a little under the weather CPU wise (not fast enough)
or you didn't allocate enough RAM to the application. Beside that, I
don;t see why it would skip: it clearly sounds like a performance issue
to me.

Corentin

I assume that this will work with WMP 7.1.  If not, upgrade to WMP 9 for Mac.
That's what I am basing this on.
I found the answer that worked for me on a site that deals with audio
streams.  What you can do is go to the Preferences of WMP and there is a list
of protocols that you can enable for streaming.  Disable UDP.  UDP is a
protocol that allows for packet loss and still keeps going, so the net effect
is video or audio might skip.  So disable it.  Also, you can set your buffer
size to be something higher than what the player defaults to.  I chose 60
seconds of buffer.
After that you have to restart the media player for those changes to take
effect in your current stream.
I did this on my G4 PowerBook.  Before the video would always get out of
sync over time and get stuck somewhere and the audio would skip a lot.  Now
both audio and video are just fine.  It makes me wonder why anyone would have
the defaults the other way.  Sigh.
I hope this helps.
Jeremy