Media player and IMON

Hi,

I noticed a strange behavior of Nod's. I use it on my computer for quite some time. I also use Windows Media Player 10 (my music library is in WMA format, because I can store more music on my player for approximately same quality than the MP3, plus I read some german university lab comparative about codec quality etc. but that's not the story here, is it ?), WMP runs minimized (in the taskbar).

The "problem" (more of an annoyance) is when I download a webpage, the music starts to become all cutted, as if IMON took all of the CPU and interrupted WMP. It doesn't happen with mails, and with other applications (MSN, network games, etc).
It happens with Opera, FF and Explorer. I think it is limited to the HTTP scanning.

Has anyone encountered such a behavior, and if so, knows how to resolve it ? Thanks in advance !

Edit : tis happens in fact with every application that uses sound. I was playing one of eset's podcasts, and loading pages in firefox as i was reading things, too. The same behavior happened.

 

The issue you have is probably related to the fact IMON is set on Higher efficenly for Windows Media Player .

Windows Media Player is such an application .

Browsers use the music applications which your computer has , so it is the same . Set all your applications to Higher compatibility as shown in the attachment .

If this doesn't help , try repairing Winsock and IMON as shown here

 

Thanks HiTech_Boy,

I'll try and see it putting Firefox in compatibility mode helps. My problem was linked more to Firefox : I don't surf with WMPlayer, but listen to music (which is on my hard drive) while surfing with Firefox.

Now I've tried it, and still this doesn't do. I repaired winsock yesterday (due to an error with comodo that destroyed TCP/IP) I'll try and repair IMON, and tell you if that helps.

 

Nope, still this annoying sound cutting thing when I'm loading web pages. I guess I'll have to live with it

 

Let's try something else, if you disable IMON, does the issue disappear?

Cheers

 

Thanks, Blackspear

I tried shutting down NOD completely (quitting the control center) and still the problem was here, so I suppose it's not NOD-related after all...

With NOD enabled and IMON icon in red (disabled) or in grey (exited, SSM shows the LSP entries are removed too) it still does it, too.

Sorry to have mis-interpreted the origin of this behavior, it must be from another software (probably Outpost or SSM, since when I use KIS(alone as a resident) on this same machine this doesn't happen)

Edit : I tried and deactivated Outpost (I'm behind a NAT router, so it's not that risky to do so for a short time, I use it for outbound connection filtering)
And Bam ! Problem gone ! So it's related to something at outpost's level, from one of its plug-in modules (deactivated the modules, and it's OK)

 

No problem at all, sometimes these things require a process of elimination.

Cheers

 

I found the Ad-Blocking module in Outpost to be the culprit, when stopped pages load without a problem, but when it's activated, they cause this strange behavior again.
This seems to be due to the AGNIS list that has numerous entries (18000+) so Outpost checks each code in the HTML file for elements containing these IP's / domains and block them. Restored default parameters and no problem at all.

Thanks for helping me with that little problem

 

Good to see you have found the problem.

My pleasure.

Cheers

 

Just to add my experience: I run Firefox 2.0 RC1(with AdBlock Plus). I experienced similar problems before. As being a Beta-tester for Agnitum I run Outpost 4.0. And I only enable Ad-Plugin of Outpost when I cannot escape browsing IE7 (no AdBlock-Plugin). So try Firefox with AdBlockPlus - a winning combination.
Also pardon me for getting OFF the track

 

Me also thanks for letting us know , Ice !