dvd player on pc

Post by **snarl** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:59 pm

For no reason, my pc now plays dvds ultra jerky.

I have no idea why and have been unable to find no reason how to fix it - funnily enough, if I play a section jerkily then wind it back, the section then plays fine...

Any ideas chaps?

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:19 pm

What DVD playing software are you using?

Standard things-

Try removing and then reinstalling your DVD software.
Try installing the most recent drivers for your graphics card (nVidia and ATI [two very common makes] have drivers at their websites, for most others you can snaffle them at www.driverguide.com

Try a different DVD player- I recommend VLC, which is free.

Let us know how they go.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:28 pm

Try putting the pr0n download on pause for the duration of the movie to free up some much-needed memory.

Stormwolf · Post by **Stormwolf** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:49 am

Some DVD software requires a license to activate. But here's really good alternative;

http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Playe ... ag=lst-0-1

I've also used this program to play movies directly from a .bin file without having to burn it to a CD first or mounting a image.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:45 pm

Stormwolf wrote:Some DVD software requires a license to activate. But here's really good alternative;

http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Playe ... ag=lst-0-1

I've also used this program to play movies directly from a .bin file without having to burn it to a CD first or mounting a image.

Hm, if only somebody had posted this link earlier

Post by **snarl** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:39 pm

Already had VLC player installed, was having the exact same problems with it.

Tried the old uninstall / reinstall, cannot find new drivers for my card which I think is ******* odd.

Bollocks.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:55 pm

If you've used multiple DVD players then we can eliminate that as a cause.

Try updating your DirectX drivers from here.

If that still causes the same error, then we'll try looking for a firmware update for your DVD-ROM.

Also, I'd like you to try playing a DVD for me and press CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up System Monitor. There'll be a bunch of graphs on one of the pages, I'd like you to tell me whether the CPU (Processor) graph is stable or if it is at 100'ish%.