As I've mentioned in another thread Mrs Don and I have bought an Amazon Fire Stick to allow us to watch "catch-up" TV and Netflix on an old Sony "Stupid" TV. I recently noticed that there is a Eurosport player available for that device and because my free Sky Sports subscription has expired and because Cycling and Winter sports are my favourite TV sports I have decided to subscribe to Eurosport online.
It works very well indeed on the Fire Stick but yesterday Mrs Don was watching Paddington on Netflix and I wanted to watch the Tour of Flanders on Eurosport. No problem, I have an old laptop in our TV/Music room.
The trouble is that after about 1 minute, the picture froze and would not unfreeze unless I closed the player, waited a few seconds and then re-opened it. I could only watch in 1 minute bursts :mad:
Looking at the Task Manager, CPU usage would immediately leap to 80+% when I opened the player and then rise to 100% after a few seconds (and just before the picture froze). This repeated every minute or so for the next 2 hours :mad:
The old laptop is quite old (7 or 8 years). It has a 1.8 GB Centrino Duo processor and 3 GB of memory. Other streaming media seems to work fine and I'd have thought that it should be enough power to stream media.
The Eurosport Player uses Microsoft Silverlight, is this the culprit ? Is there anything I should look into ?
It works very well indeed on the Fire Stick but yesterday Mrs Don was watching Paddington on Netflix and I wanted to watch the Tour of Flanders on Eurosport. No problem, I have an old laptop in our TV/Music room.
The trouble is that after about 1 minute, the picture froze and would not unfreeze unless I closed the player, waited a few seconds and then re-opened it. I could only watch in 1 minute bursts :mad:
Looking at the Task Manager, CPU usage would immediately leap to 80+% when I opened the player and then rise to 100% after a few seconds (and just before the picture froze). This repeated every minute or so for the next 2 hours :mad:
The old laptop is quite old (7 or 8 years). It has a 1.8 GB Centrino Duo processor and 3 GB of memory. Other streaming media seems to work fine and I'd have thought that it should be enough power to stream media.
The Eurosport Player uses Microsoft Silverlight, is this the culprit ? Is there anything I should look into ?
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