dvd drive spins down while watching movies.

[RustyTucker]

I was watching a dvd on my computer tonight, and during the middle portion of the movie, it would pause for a few seconds evry 15 to 20 seconds. Each time, as soon as the movie froze, I could hear the drive spin back up, and then themovie would continue for 15 to 20 seconds and then pause/freeze again. What's the deal here? It only has done this with this movie. The movie is X-MEN, I have a Hollywood Plus decoder card, and a Toshiba 12x/40x drive. (I am not sure of the exact model number.

Thanks.

 

[RustyTucker]

anyone???

 

[Gunbuster]

Sounds like it's loosing focus
Starts to loose tracking slows the disk down, regains tracking/focus spins back to normal speed.

may be a bad disk or the laser

(this is just my theory)