dvd's skipping badly

[jorken]

I posted this in general but didn't get very many useful replies.

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 for christmas I got a Radeon 32DDR and still seem to be having the same problems. The movie will play fine for about 1 minute 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 win98SE. I'm not sure what else my problem could be, does anyone else have any suggetions? Thanks!

 

[Hawk]

Yeah! I had the same problem! My drive is a Toshiba 12x/40x though, and I tried it on another person's computer and it did the same thing so I sent it in for repairs. Hopefully someone can find a fix so I don't have to RMA my drive everytime! =)

 

[jorken]

I hope its not the drive, it reads cds and everything else just fine. Never used to have any problems playing dvds with it before. It's just really pissing me off now because I just did a reformat and reinstalled everything and it still screwy.

 

[Bigdude]

Mine did that before I enabled DMA, after I did it played fine with a Hitatchi 2X dvd, Celeron 366 oc'd to 550 BH6 128meg ram 3DFX 2000 agp with power dvd.

 

[Taz4158]

As strange as this sounds, with the Radeon I've run into this problem. Try running the system compatibility test from the ATI media center in the control panel.

 

[snow patrol]

agh? I though the Radeon was great for DVD's? I'm actually considering buying a pioneer 16x DVD ROM and a 32Meg DDR Radeon tomorrow with the aim of building up a DVD collection. EEek, someone tell me that'll be ok!

 

[Taz4158]

It is by FAR the best solution for DVD with very few problems so DON'T worry!

 

[jorken]

nah its cool. It was something with the drive and the connection I guess. I pulled it out and tossed my moms drive in and tried it and all went well, then I stuck mine back in there and it worked fine after that. Could have been a lose connection or something. The radeon has very nice playback though, you'll be happy with it snow.

 

[snow patrol]

Thanks guys, you've put my mind at ease. I'll order them both tomorrow

One more question: Will a region free DVD ROM drive, like the ones on sale here allow me to play ANY region DVDs and give me no problems in terms of compatability?

Cheers!

btw, glad you fixed your problem jorken

 

[Escalade]

This tweak immensely helps slower computers trying to play DVD's from a DVDROM drive. 450 Mhz is considered a bit slow, but it is possible to get DVD playback without dropped frames.

The CDFS Tweak is in the registry:

1) Run Regedit
2) Navigate to the following folder:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Control\FileSystem\CDFS]
3) Set the following:

CacheSize = 0x00000800 (2048) - the default is 0x0000026b (619)
Prefetch = 0x00000800 (2048) - default is 0x000000e4 (228)
PrefetchTail = 0x00000200 (512) - default is 0x00000080 (128)

4) Reboot, and test your DVD playback.

 

[Taz4158]

<< One more question: Will a region free DVD ROM drive, like the ones on sale here allow me to play ANY region DVDs and give me no problems in terms of compatability? >>



There's no inherent problem with region free and most DVDroms can be converted to region free.

 

[snow patrol]

Just ordered my Pioneer 16X region free DVD ROM, along with a blue orb I'll order the Radeon tomorrow as I have to phone up to do it (bah! ).

 

[Taz4158]

You ROCK Snow Patrol!

 

[snow patrol]

lol thanks. I see that you have a similar config (I presume your DVD is pioneer?).

So I'll know who to turn to should I run into trouble!

 

[jorken]

Hey what's the sound issue with one of those Pioneers 16x's? Not even sure if there is an issue really, just want to know if it is an overly noisy drive, moderate or nice and soft.

 

[snow patrol]

Hmmn, I didn't even think of that :Q

Haven't seen any posts complaining about it though, so I'm sure it can't be bad or anything.

 

[Taz4158]

<< lol thanks. I see that you have a similar config (I presume your DVD is pioneer?). >>


It is Pioneer and if you have any problems I'm always around.