dvds skip and freeze


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I cannot play dvds on here anymore :( they skip, sometimes slow and feezes for some odd reason. I dont think I tried playing dvds on winxp.. Only things running in background are za, incd and trillian and that little speaker because I cant seem to find how to disable that bugger. I highly doubt anyone can help me with this :( damn... but its worth a try.. My system gets real busy when playing them now too...

Things that have changed on my puter since they use to play -

os -win2k

dvd software -now using cyberlinks dvd xp

sound card - forced to use built on sound card at the moment because my pci one isnt working on here...

video card - gf3 ti 500 with the lastest drivers

direct x 8.1

higher rez on desktop 1152 32 @ 75 and larage fonts (use to have 1024 back on win98 when dvds worked) :disappoin (already tried a lower one with smaller fonts)

(oops not dx 9)

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Direct x 9 might have something to do with it, Also, I doubt InCD is having a good effect. Have you tried it without these apps? Or without DX9? Have you tried playing DVD's in WMPXP?

On a side note, to get rid of the little speaker, go to control panel - sounds and audio devices - then uncheck the "place icon in the taskbar" option.

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I only tried playing it in that cyber link xp one. Could that be the problem? Ok got rid of the speaker. How do I disable the incd on start? Msconfig doesnt seem to work on win2k... Is there another command for win2k? :ermm: I ve only tried playing the dvd without trillain and za I think.

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download the Startup CPL on the mainpage of neowin

wasnt the cyber link dvd Xp designed to be compatible with xp?

why dont you just get an older ver of it ;)

and since direct X 9 is in beta that might be it.

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try the program itself and he's on Win2k Dazzla! :) I have Windows Media 8 for 2k if you want it too..( is that warez since it is free?) anyways. try your startup folder. Should be start - programs - startup check that and see if it's there. Try WinDVD too instead of powerdvd.. let me know what you need and check your email and your PMs on neowin!

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this is wierd this........i've had this same problem...some DVDs that won't play in power DVD without crashing or freezing work fine in the living room.

Really whak. I'm beggining to think that PowerDVD is a buggy POS....i haven't found a decent (and free) alternative though :(

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Originally posted by nekrosoft13

do you have your DMA on

I right clicked and went to props on the drive but dont see that option.. Where is it on win2k? It might not be on then..

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it's in device manager. Right click primary ide channel in ide/atapi controller and then go to the advanced tab and you'll see your DMA settings there....

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try powerdvd. if not than maybe your drive is mest up.

my friends dvd drive broke about 2 months ago. the drive worked, but it was very slow, and it was scratching circles on the disks.

in my opinion dvd-roms break easy, on my old computer, the dvd-drive stoped reading cds, but it still readed dvds normally.

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