Stuttering w/ Certain DVD Movies?

[Nighthawk69]

Hey all-

I got a Toshiba SD-M1402 DVD-ROM drive for my B-Day and it is awesome! Only problem I have is that in a couple select movies, in certain scenes it will stutter or pause, but it only occurs in these scenes and is not random. The movies I have seen it in are The Matrix and The Mummy -- all other movies run fine... and like I said it only happens for a few secs in certain scenes. I've tried rebooting and jumping right to the scene that stuttered and it still does it... I also have NO background programs running. Is there any way to fix this?

I'm using WinDVD software on my:

T-Bird 1.1Ghz
352MB Micron PC-133 SDRAM
Creative Labs Annihilator 2 GeForce 2 GTS 32MB on 6.47 BETA drivers
SBLive! Value

Any suggestions are MUCH appreciated!

 

[SuperGroove]

Try using other DVD players...WinDVD used to skip for me when I played the Matrix(the Lobby Scene). I switched over to Cinemaster and all has been well ever since.

 

[LarryJoe]

Cinemaster is the way to go. It has the best engine of all the players/decoders out there including PowerDVD. WinDVD is an average player and usually a freebee with video cards.

That said, make sure you have DMA enable under the drive properties in device manager. This is VERY important for smooth software playback. Also, the Matrix is well known to give both PC and set-top DVD players fits. It plays fine on my system as well as in the livng room, but have read many horror stories.

LJ

 

[Comp10]

The problem is likely arising from when a dual layer DVD switches layers, which will often causes the movie to pause on many DVD players. Personaly i've never noticed this problem using the ATI DVD player (which is based on the Cinemaster decoder), so you might want to give Cinemaster a try or even try some of the other players such as PowerDVD.

 

[Nighthawk69]

Thanks all...

DMA is enabled.
Hmm, didn't really wanna switch software as this one was expensive! Is the 'good' one you all spoke of, free?

Thanks,

 

[Smbu]

comp10 is right. It's when Dual layered dvd's switch sides. The only one I notice it in has been in the Matrix, the lobby scene, when using PowerDVD. I haven't tried it with the ATI DVD player, nor with my PS2 as a DVD player.

 

[Taz4158]

I actually switched from the ATI (Cinemaster) to WinDVD and MUCH prefer it.

 

[Nighthawk69]

Hmm.. I don't have any problems in the lobby scene... It only stutters for me when they have arrived in the Matrix to take Neo to the Oracle... when the phone is dropped into the garbage can it stutters.

 

[Nighthawk69]

OK.. I found a version of Cinemaster and it runs VERY bad on my system... the entire movie lags. So, I guess WinDVD is the best I can get... from your responses it sounds like a lot of DVD's have that problem and maybe it really isn't my decoder software.

Thanks all!

 

[LarryJoe]

There are many versions of Cinemaster and it does take the right combination of player and engine to reach perfection. If you are not a tweaker, then you may as well stick with the all-in-one's like Power-DVD or Win-DVD. They do a good enough job for most people.

If you are up for it, get Cinemaster decoding engine 2.036 or 2.037. You dump the engine files into Windows/System. Then reboot and install Cinemaster QI Player. After this is done, intall DVD Genie to tweak everything from video to sound. If you do all of this correctly, you will end up with a perfect picture and awesome sound.

Too bad you paid so much for Win-DVD. You can probably find it at the same place you found Cinemaster.

Good luck,

LJ

 

[Nighthawk69]

Can you please post links to the files I need and tell me how/what needs to be installed and configured to get Cinemaster running perfect?

Thanks!