DVD playback problems (fixed, thanks slikkster)

[Spike]

ok, I have a pioneer 106s 16x slot-load DVD drive and am running on a Radeon 8500. I played dvd's just fine with this before, but when trying to play them tonight, I get problems. The FBI warning screen will start with the movie, but then I get spotty sound and cannot see any video. Several times my computer just crashed (I am running winxp) I tried playing the dvd with the ati dvd player and a dvd player by interactual.

I have been trying to debug this for the last few hours. I tested the DVD drive by playing a divx movie on it and playing a game from it. then I uninstalled it and put in my housmates DVD drive and had the same problems (he has a compaq dvd drive that works just fine) I also took out my radeon and installed a older radeon and had the same problems as well. Then I decided to reinstall both my graphics card drivers and the ati multimedia center (dvd player, etc...) this did nothing as well. I have no idea what the problem could be as I just watched dvd's last week on my comp without any problems.

The only thing I have installed recently is Medal of Honor and cleaned out my comp with ad-aware. I also de-fraged my drive. I doubt any of that could have done anything, but I wanted to mention them anyway. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? thanks

-Spike

 

[ojai00]

Does this happen to all your DVDs? You say that it's the same problem at your housemate's computer, so it might be a bad disc.

 

[Wolfsraider]

hey spike here is my .02 cents worth you stated: I tried playing the dvd with the ati dvd player and a dvd player by interactual

man i gotta tell you two things will mess up dvd's faster than superman

1. pc friendly
2.interactual dvd

these two programs are set to autorun and will run in the background of your other programs

there is any easy fix hold down shift when you insert disk till the light on dvd drive goes out then run the program you want or disable autorun but disabling it doesn't always work (shift does)

try this and see if it works.

the problem you state> The FBI warning screen will start with the movie, but then I get spotty sound and cannot see any video.
is typical of interactual robbing resources as both try to run

personally if i find either progrsm on the disk i cancel instalation and make a list of dvd's with these two programs so i remember to shift on by.even using them sometimes they will work flawlessly
but then all of a sudden pow right back to screwing up .

hope this helps


ok, I have a pioneer 106s 16x slot-load DVD drive and am running on a Radeon 8500<DROOL


on a side note moh is a great game lol did you have any trouble loading software?or glitches?
just curious as a friend had a few glitches on radeon ve card but working fine now.

 

[Spike]

on a side note moh is a great game lol did you have any trouble loading software?or glitches?

I did not have any problems at all with mohaa, it did run almost choppy with full detail at 1280x1024, but is still definitly playable. I am going to try your interactual shift fix thing right now to see if it works.....

ok, no can do, the shift solution did not work. I just uninstalled interactual because I don't like it also, I know it is not a hardware issue as I restart under Win98 (I have a dual boot) and played the dvd's just fine from 98. It is something that just changed with XP, but I have not done anything that I can think of besides what I all-ready said. any more ideas? thanks

 

[Spike]

I went back and tried to play dvd's again under win98 and found out that the video pauses after about 2 min. IF I restart the player, it will go for another 2 min, then the vid will die while the sound continues.

 

[Slikkster]

In XP:


First things, first. Click Start/Run/ and type in "sfc /scannow" This will make sure your system files are OK.

I'd reboot afterwards. Have you disabled System Restore? You might want to use that if you haven't disabled it to go back in time to before you had any issues. Of course, anything you've installed after the Restore point will have to be reinstalled.

System Restore Howto's


Also, check your DMA settings on your IDE controllers. If this drive can use DMA, it should be set for DMA mode. Sometimes XP won't activate it by default. Your controllers should be set for "DMA If Available".

Since you're also having problems now in 98, I would doublecheck your cable connections to the drive and motherboard...and check your jumper settings. I'd put the drive on a controller with a similar device, or make it a master with no other device. Don't put it on a controller with a hard drive.

 

[Spike]

Go slikkster!! I used the system restore and it fixed the player. I think ad-aware deleted something that xp needed for dvd playback. NOw I just have to figure out how to dump my old system restore points. anyway,thanks again, I really appreciated the help

-Spike