playing dvds

[cmt9000]

I am trying to play a DVD on a decent machine. It's a 6600 core 2 duo with 2gb of ram, and a ATI 1950xt 512mb video card.

The DVD loads fine, Windows Media Player starts, and it starts playing the movie. However, after about 30 minutes, the video starts to stutter bad. It's not a bad DVD because I've tried like 10 and they all start stuttering after about 20-30 minutes of playing.

Is my machine not fast enough?

thanks

 

[Capt Caveman]

No, b/c I have a celeron laptop with integrated graphics and 1gb of ram that I can play DVDs with no problem. I would see what else is running in the background. Try a reinstall of Windows Media Player. And/or try using another dvd viewer to see if it still happens.

 

[RussianSensation]

Overheating?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i dont think playing video overheats a x1950 since it runs at lower clock speeds (2d) instead of the 3d clock speeds when playing games..., unless you're overheating it @ 2dmode which is bad, check your cable management, might be a driver/install problem, try reinstalling the driver/windows media player

 

[Laminator]

Originally posted by: cmt9000
Is my machine not fast enough?

Heh heh heh...DVD's played just fine on my 500MHz Pentium III with 128MB of RAM and a TNT2 Ultra in 1999.

Try playing some games and see what happens. Or download ATITool and check your video card temperatures.

 

[fliguy84]

Maybe your codec?

 

[coolpurplefan]

maybe you can try another DVD drive

 

[filibusterman]

another DVD drive or another DVD player like media player classic, power dvd, windvd