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Help: Jumpy DVD playback!

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ShizNitz

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I just tried installing my Lite-On 16X DVD player and the movie is extremely (impossible) jumpy to watch. I have a 366MHz HP Pavilion with 256MB of RAM. I installed a 32MB Radeon PCI card about a month ago (says #1 for DVD playback on box). What am I doing wrong? I've been using the DVD playback software that came with the graphics card. Should I install PowerDVD that came with the DVD drive? Any help is definitely appreciated. Thanks.
 
I remember reading a long time ago that the requirement for running smooth DVD playback without a hardware decoder card was at least a 400 MHz Pentium (or equivalent) processor. You may need to get a hardware decoder card for your config.
 
I had a series of BSOD's with my Delta DVD drive when i rebuilt my system last week.

This only occured while playing DVD's - it worked perfectly with CD-ROMs and also worked flawlessly in my old Andara Meatybones system.

The cause was the jumper setting - changed the DVD from Slave to Master now the DVD is fine - but the LiteOn CDR won't read CD's 🙁

Bummer 🙁

Try changing the jumper settings and see if that makes any difference. It's a long shot 😉
 


<< DVD playback without a hardware decoder card was at least a 400 MHz Pentium >>



Your Radeon card has hardware assist for DVD playback, minimum CPU required for smooth playback is a Pentium II 266MHz according to ATI, make sure DMA is enabled for your DVD drive, install the .latest drivers and MMC. With your cpu, you'll want to use be sure to use a player that supports the Rage Theater hardware assist, ATI DVD (latest version 5 is what I use) Power DVD version 4.0, or WinDVD 2.0 and above all support the Radeon's iDCT and motion compensation
 
I have a CD-RW that is setup as the "Master" jumper and is set on the middle of the IDE cable. The DVD player is set to "Slave" and is set on the end of the IDE cable. I'm sure that I shouldn't need a hardware decoder card because my graphics card is supposed to be able to play DVD's back by itself (that is the reason that I got it). Anyways, I'll try and install PowerDVD, download the latest drivers (thanks rbv5), and give it another whirl.
 
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