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| 18303 | 2001-09-06 11:35:00 | I recently bought a DVD drive and installed it into my computer, and had no problems with the install. However if I try to watch DVD movies on it, the picture jerks like nothing else, and on occasions when its not that jerky, the sound and the movement (like people talking) are not quite in sync. Most of the time though its just really jerky, and rather irritating to watch. I've been informed by many different sources that it should run smoothly, but nobody has been able to give the right suggestion to fix it. I'm running: Celeron 700 32mb TNT2 AGP (I bought this as I was told that this was most likely the problem... didn't make any diff) 128mb RAM 12x DVD-ROM 20Gb 5400rpm HDD Windows ME PowerDVD software (came with the drive). I have tried heaps of suggestions, such as switching on DMA (obvious one), dropping the res to 800x600, etc. etc. even formatted my HDD last weekend cause of the suggestion of too many programs loaded from startup. Now theres nothing besides what's installed when WinME is installed. So what do I need to do? Help is appreciated :o) Mike |
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| 18304 | 2001-09-06 11:56:00 | First, is the disk scratched? Have you turned on hardware acceleration for the video. There will be a couple of places, includin Display properties, settings tab, advanced button, preformance tab. |
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| 18305 | 2001-09-06 12:13:00 | Its the same on any DVD, not just one. Hardware acceleration isn't an option in PowerDVD for the TNT2 for some reason. All the settings under the display properties are set up for acceleration, as far as I can tell. |
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| 18306 | 2001-09-07 02:36:00 | hi Mike, have you had the oportunity to test the drive in another machine? Is the drive set to master on it's own IDE interface? The celeron should have ample processing power to decode a DVD. Do you have integrated sound on your motherboard? If so perhaps it consumes some of you CPU time... |
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| 18307 | 2001-09-07 03:30:00 | the DVD is set as master on the second IDE channel with no slave attached. The sound is integrated though, could this be causing my problems? I haven't been able to test it on another machine. | Guest (0) | ||
| 18308 | 2001-09-09 00:58:00 | Try looking at: www.dvda.org then going to the FAQ which is Jim Taylor's site. Very informative |
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