what's wrong with my DVD drive?

[ojai00]

It was working fine about a month ago and now everytime i try to play a DVD, it either won't play, stop in the middle, stop at a certain scene while the rest of the movie is continuing, or freeze. I have no idea what I did, but I did a system file check and a Scandisk to make sure that all my files are good. It's currently set as a slave drive to my CD-ROM drive (I had it the other way around with the DVD as the master and the CD-ROM as the slave, but it still didn't work). I'm thinking that I did something to my computer, and I'm considering a format, but I would use that as a last resort. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what my problem is? Might it be a busted DVD drive? I have the Pioneer 106s. Thanks for any input.

 

[corkyg]

That does not sound like a hardware problem. What software are you using to play the DVD, and in what OS?

 

[ojai00]

Sorry, forgot to include that info. I'm running Windows XP, and I've tried PowerDVD XP, WinDVD 2000, and Windows Media Player. I recently bought Girl, Interrupted, Romeo Must Die and Reindeer Games, and none of them will play. I got The Fast and The Furious to work a few days ago, but now nothing is playing. Thanks for the reply corky-g

 

[ojai00]

Bump

 

[mee987]

to help with the diagnosis -- download this... it is a dvd ripping app, try to rip one of your dvd's to your hard drive. if it is able to rip the whole thing without a problem, then your drive still works

 

[ojai00]

Thanks for that link mee987. I'm going to test it out right now.

 

[ojai00]

It ripped successfully. I originally thought that something was wrong with my software because I started to notice that some of my settings started to change in Windows. I think I'm going to have to format in the near future. I'm pretty interested in this decrypter software. Now that I ripped the DVD, how do I play it or create a Divx file?

 

[mee987]

its pretty complicated, there is a lot of software to use and a lot of options.... if you are really interested go to http://www.doom9.org/ and check out the guides there

 

[ojai00]

Thanks you very much!