Hey guys, I have a problem that has been bugging me for quite some time. My PC doesn't like to playback DVD's. Original, brand new, backup copies, whatever. It's got about a 75% fail rate. Most of them will play for a few minutes, then the screen freezes and the light on the dvd drive just stays on. Some of them make it 3/4 of the way through the movie before freezing. My PC is built, and should have no problems (gig of memory, XP SP2, 2 gig XP chip, nf2 chipset) and I'm using the powerdvd decoder. This happens in both media player and power dvd. Any ideas? Thanks!
Just a thought but was it working fine before you installed SP2 as a few people i know have had various different problems with it. Do you have another drive you could use to see if the problem still persists. _X_X_X_X_X_[small] Windows XP Pro SP-1 / Barton XP2500+ @3200GHz Twinmos DDR400 @430MHz / Abit NF7-S v2.0 Western Digital 120Gb Sata[/small]
Interestingly enough, I've had this problem, at least periodically, since I was running millenium edition. The only components that remain the same since then are powerdvd, and that is in a version one or two newer then back then. Argh.
Hi there, I'm not sure if my problems are similar to yours, but they may help! I have been trying to play some recorded DVD's on my brand new laptop with limited success. Only 2 out of the 6 I bought will play on my computer, whereas they all play on standalone DVD players. Interstingly the same is true when I tried my PC at work, only the same 2 played the other 4 didn't. Does anyone know if the DVD players (ie the lasers etc) in computers (especially laptops) are not as good as the stand alone players? It would make sense that a stand alone unit would have better components than the slim laptop DVD units but I would have thought if a disc is playable in any machine then it would play in all? By the way, I know that the DVD's I was trying to play are poor quality, they are pirate copies which I know is bad but I'm living in Malaysia at the moment and they are about all that is available! Any way the movies are so heavily censored here I need to buy the pirate copies so I can make sense of whats going on! Any help/advice most gratefully received Best wishes Jimmy
