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dvd skipping

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jorken

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Hey all, within the last... 2 or 3 months i'd say i've been having problems playing dvd's. They skip 🙂 For a while I thought it was my older TNT card but today for christmas I got a Radeon 32DDR and still seem to be having the same problems. The movie will play fine for about 3 minutes then it will begin to skip and jump and whatnot. I have the latest drivers for the radeon and I doubt its the video card at this point, i've tried WinDVD, PowerDVD and now ATI's player that came with the card and all the same. I'm playing them with a Pioneer 6x slot loading dvd (DMA enabled) and a p3-600 oc'ed to 800 and 128megs of ram on win98. I'm not sure what else my problem could be, does anyone else have any suggetions? Thanks!
 
my guess is that you're limited by the 6x of the DVD. If I remember correctly, you need about 8x to get totally smooth play
 
I used to be able to play dvds ok, but now they are just really unplayable. The skipping is really horrible.
 
It is ABSOLUTELY not the 6x that is limiting you. DVDs will play perfectly fine at 1x.

First of all double-check that you have DMA enabled for the DVD drive and if that doesn't help try different dvd players (software) like PowerDVD, Cinemaster, etc.
 
Also, double check that your cd is not dirty. I had a matrix dvd that was really choppy, etc. I thought my DVD ROM was fried. However, I cleaned off the cd...and it was good again...

Likely not teh problem in your case....but, just thought I would say it, just IN CASE. 🙂
 
The cd's are brand new, i just got them today and are pretty scratchless. DMA is checked in the device manager and also confirmed it in Sandra saying DMA enabled.
 
Yeah -- flash your DVD drive with the latest official firmware. If it's connected to a highpoint controller(HTP366 (HTP666) 🙂, TAKE IT OFF and put it on a normal IDE port.

The flashing fixed my DVD skip problems... Also, PowerDVD refuses to play some DVDs of mine (Cowboy Bebop Disc 5, for example), but WinDVD plays it perfectly (frusterating though since the demo stops after 5 minutes, and I already bought PowerDVD.. GRRR)


 
Just checked for a newer firmware and it seems what I have installed is the latest (v1.15). This is getting a little too annoying, maybe I should just wipe the drive and reinstall everything.
 
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