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I experience long pauses at several points during playback of the high-definition feature. What is the problem?

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I experience long pauses at several points during playback of the high-definition feature. What is the problem?

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The high-definition content consists of a number of separate Windows Media video files, rather than a large single file. These files are organized in a “playlist” in Windows Media Player. The files used by the high-definition feature are very large (some exceed 1 GB in size), and have a significant amount of compression applied to them as well, so it will probably take longer for these files to start up. If you randomly select chapters, it may take 10 seconds or more for your selection to start playing, since the entire video file has to be read from the DVD before the chapter point can be found. This is to be expected, and does not indicate a problem with either your computer or the high-definition feature.

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