Some videos on X (Twitter) pause between 0.1-2 seconds after I play/unpause them? Windows 10 all browsers - Firefox, Chrome, Edge. Nothing like this happens on YouTube or any other site. Windows is freshly reinstalled and before it did not do this. I have installed latest K-Lite_Codec_Pack_1850_Mega and nVidia drivers are to latest version too… Very strange.
whoa, I did not know people still use these.
Any particular reason or edge case that requires it?
What are your browser extensions?
Power management settings?
I have media that need to play/view is various formats. Always had the codec pack.
Power settings are on performance.
Chrome and Edge has no additional extensions installed, Firefox has a lot but I have tried running it in safe mode (no extensions) and still does it.
Most OSS (mpv, VLC and anything related to them) players include bundled ffmpeg library, than pretty much decodes anything under the sun and then some. That makes codec packs redundant in most sceanrios, unless you want to windows media player or MPC.
I don’t even think browsers need any supplemental codecs, as long you have necessary drivers and hw decoding, you are set.
Codec packs are so 2000/2010s to me, ever since they also started bundling adware 
Does anyone remember cccp ?
EDIT: Back to actual original question, are you sure this inst network related issue?
Streaming players no longer pre-buffer video chunks ahead of time, so that pause might be obvious network hiccup fetching data.
Also twitters infra isnt what is used to be after Musks takeover, he gutted the engineering to the bone.
I saw similar general behaviour on my connection due to bufferbloat. Easily available test is here https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat
on windows there’s no straightforward way otherwise to play h265 for example without paying for software that isn’t cheap.
There are nvidia profile inspector definitions available to eliminate stutter on MPC with k-lite but not browsers.
Your browsers use their own codecs and hardware acceleration. The one thing that comes to mind is have you employed shutup10 and disabled all the telemetry?
I dont follow, just install vlc / mpv or any other from many free solutions available. No need to pay for anything. Or is that windows media player specific issue you speak of?
I haven’t seen windows PC without vlc installed by default professionally in 10 years or so , so my viewpoint might be skewed. Video codecs have been non-issue for years for me. As in no need to even think about them.
Windows media player is not even installed by default on some windows 11 systems, just checked mine for curiosity sake, and it is not installed.
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MPC (the continued fork) is much less resource intensive than VLC. I get much better h265 performance with it.
It’s quite the opposite for me lol, I haven’t seen a PC with VLC installed for years.
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I have the same problem.
It has nothing to do with codec, it only happens in “Posts” tab, in “Media” tab it’s all good, so it’s twitter’s own problem.
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