Choppy DVD playback

Kaneda · #1 August 26th, 2006, 01:10 AM

Hi guys, first post on this forum, hope you can help because i'm clueless.
So i got a new CPU, P4 3.1 Ghz, generic winfast Geforce4 128mb video card and 1000Mb ram...i first installed WinXP on it, my DVD's worked fine, had no problem at all, but then had to switch to win2k cause i wasn't using a registered version of WinXP. We formatted the CPU, reinstalled Win2k and all my drivers, and everything worked fine. Then i updated to a Radeon 9550 256mb video card, and installed all correct drivers.
My games run smooth, no complain about that. My only concern is that whenever i try to play a DVD, it plays Choppy, both sound and image. Tried like 10 different DVD reading softwares that all gave the same result. But i found out that whenever i go back to an earlier part of the dvd, it plays fine, as if the dvd didn't have enough cache to feed the need...My roommate spent an evening trying to fix the bug, dlding tweaks programs to try and increase the cache and virtual memory of the dvd drive, but i have 2 dvd drives, and both do the same thing. We coudln't fix the problem, and i don't understand how could a setup like mine not be able to run DVD's smoothly, especialy that it already did in the past...
So if you guys could help, it would be much appreciated,
thx

Kaneda · #2 August 26th, 2006, 02:57 PM

Nobody? Yesterday night i tweaked win2k a little, increased cache and other things and it almost solved it, now it's just choppy a part of the time...what else can i do to help?

Kaneda · #3 August 27th, 2006, 10:39 PM

come on guys...

Kaneda · #4 January 6th, 2007, 06:36 PM

okayy
well i never fixed the problem, and i started watching my dvd's on my PS2 again...but then my PS2 broke so i need my CPU to play DVD's...I installed a program called VLC, VideoLan, it worked fine until for some reason it stopped working...i'd really like someone to help me with this cause it's annoying not being able to watch movies at home at all.
btw i just uprgaded to 2gb ram...so i don't think the problem is RAM related...

MaDef · #5 January 7th, 2007, 01:00 AM

Is your dvd drive set to DMA mode? if not it needs to be.

Kaneda · #6 January 7th, 2007, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDef

Is your dvd drive set to DMA mode? if not it needs to be.

ok...and how do i do that??

MaDef · #7 January 7th, 2007, 05:36 PM

in the device manager under ide controllers click the advanced settings tab. There should be a dropdown box where you can select pio or dma mode. there should be a box directly under that that tells you what mode you currently are in. If it doesn't take, check your bios settings.

Kaneda · #8 January 8th, 2007, 12:35 AM

yupp that did it...
thanks a bunch!

MaDef · #9 January 8th, 2007, 01:22 AM

glad it worked out.