Where is my problem??

[Blueopticalmouse]

I recently upgraded to XP for obvious reasons and it has been working fine, except for one aspect. I have not been able to play DVD's properly with my original Teac 8X drive. I wasn't able to find/don't have the original install disk for the Intervideo WinDVD that came with the drive so I installed Cyberlink PowerDVD that I had from the drive in my desktop. *shh, don't tell*. It seemed to install properly and accept the key so I figured all was a go. I tried to play a DVD straight from the drive and experienced stuttering in playback, bad skipping/stuttering w/e you want to call it. It was worse in high sound or high motion situations. I thought that it might be the drive so I ripped the DVD *shh* to the hard drive and had the same problems. I also tried to play the DVD with WMP 10 using the PowerDVD decoder and all I could ever get was errors. Even after reinstall and second attempt. Has anyone experienced this or have a soluton. Or is there a free decoder or player out there that I could try?

I have an older Gateway Solo 5300 with a 750Mhz Pentium III, Teac 8x DVD drive, XP Pro, PowerDVD V 4.0, S3 Graphics Savage/IX, 256 MB ram, everything has updated drivers.

Thanks for all your help, I really want to be able to play DVDs on a 24 hr bus ride

 

[SchrodingersDog]

I think the problem is the 750Mhz Pentium III, S3 Graphics Savage/IX, and 256 MB ram, sorry. Did this system play DVDs well before XP? For the PowerDVD, you might check if maybe audio effects could be turned down, like surround, dolby etc. Most decoders have some funky proprietory technology that might be able to be disabled for more performance.

 

[Blueopticalmouse]

The laptop was able to play DVD in full screen mode perfectly before XP which led me to believe that it might be a software error. I will try to lower audio settings to see if that helps.