laptop cd/dvd drive too slow?

[substance12]

my gf's HP laptop has trouble playing tv shows in avi format around 350mb on the dvd-r's that I burn for her. Nero drive info tool showed that it can read dvd-r and the speed of the cd/dvd drive was 24x. So when I view the files in win explorer and double click them, it takes at least 30 secs to start going and then it lags. Anyway around this?

If I recall, there was some avi hack that made it quicker to open avi files. I forgot what it was called.

 

[FreshFish]

I had a similar prob. with my ol' iBook. I never found a work-around, though. I just ended up copying the file onto my laptop temporarily to watch it.

 

[tk11]

Try using a different player. Video LAN shows the lowest cpu usage on my system and it's free. Might want to give it a try.

http://videolan.org/

 

[Jeff7]

Usual thing to suggest - make sure that DMA is enabled for the drive.

 

[substance12]

I'm using mplayer classic. pretty low memory usage.

DMA is enabled... checked it.

Would addding more memory (currently 256) help this or is it strictly a cd/dvd rom lack of ability?