PowerDVD: Sound craps out after 5 minutes of play

[Phokus]

Uhm, i'm using an evaluation version of PowerDVD (PowerDVD XP) and after roughly 5 minutes of playing ANYTHING whether it's a VCD or SVCD, the sound stops working. After i close PowerDVD and open it up again, it works again. Does anyon have any idea how to fix this?

Here's my system:

AMD XP 1800
Geforce 4
MSI Kt7A (err yeah, i forgot the model number of this, but it supports DDR 333 RAM and has onboard sound).
Avance AC'97 Audio for VIA Audio Controller (I think this is correct) on board sound

Anyway, i had another system with a sound blaster live card that did this as well, so wth is going on here?

 

[Haircut]

That's a 'feature' of the evaluation version.
See here.

Limitations 30 days validation from the date of Installation .
5 mins of Audio (multi-channel) and 30 mins of Video.

 

[DefRef]

What he said.

 

[KevinMU1]

There is no such thing as a free lunch, you gotta pay for your sound.

 

[ojai00]

You can fix it by registering/buying a copy of PowerDVD. When you enter the registration code, it'll allow you to watch the whole movie. Some DVD drives come packaged with a copy of PowerDVD. WinDVD has the same feature in the evaluation version. You can only watch a few minutes but it'll stop afterwards.