DVD playback

[kenyg]

Hi Folks,

Maybe someone here has experienced this -
When playing some DVD's, the audio/video lose sync with each other - If I restart the chapter - it will be fine for a while - but gradually it happens again.

Not all movies, but some. I'm using the Creative 12x DVD w/the TV out card (dxr3).

thanks,

Ken

[jak]

all i can think of is not enough processing power, bad software, not enough ram, not enough resources, hmm what else. try running it w/ everything closed and need more info, what software u using, what sound card, ram and processor. are u using windows me?
thats bout it.
jsut give us ur whole system specs
thanx
jak

[kenyg]

Here's my system -

900mhz Tbird
m800 mobo (pchips)
sound is integrated
nic is integrated
128mb pc100 ram
30g maxtor hd
Asus Geforce2 MX 32mb
12X Creative DVD w/ dxr3 encore decoder card
(i think it's actually a hwood card with the licensed by creative)

I'm thinking this may be happening because I'm playing the audio thur the PC speakers - which sound better than the TV's. I don't notice this problem if I'm just playing back on the PC monitor. Also, what is really weird - is it only happens on certain movies - today was 102 dalmations - two days ago I watched Blade - with no problem whatsoever!? The only other movie I've noticed this problem with was 'Analyze this'.

Ken

[eagle1]

Maybe it is your playback software! I use PowerDVD 3.0 and it works fine. I also have a Cinemaster 99 and 2000 versions (like the 99 better = much faster in my system). I think you have a powerful system and if you have a decoder card you shouldn't be experiencing problems. Some dvd playback software doesn't support some dvd features but it's really rare as it just happens on old software mostly!

[muno]

Or the integrated soundcard. Is the hardware acceleration set to full for sound?
-M

[RobRich]

As you suspected, your card is a HoolyWood decoder. Make sure you have the latest Hollywood drivers for optimum support. It could be that Creative is lagging behind in driver updates.

Also, try playing the movie with a traditional software-based player. If you are using WinMe or Win2k, then you can try "dvdplay.exe", found in your C:\windows directory. If the movies play fine, then this will narrow down the search for potential problems.

Robert Richmond

[jak]

well ur system is definately fast enough but if you have windows me u can easily check if its ur software by typing `dvdplay` under run, for some reason windows me included it but never really let users know about it. just see if the dvd plays better on that.
jak

[muno]

Hmm.. I might add that I had a similar problem with a toshiba tecra. It had hardware dvd decoder (as the processor speed was only 233MHz) but it wouldn't play any dvd at full frame rate unless I used the toshibas own dvd player. PowerDVD would only display 1/5 of the frames... Still don't know what the problem was.
-M

[kenyg]

Thanks everyone - Rob you were correct, I downloaded and installed the Hwd+ drivers - problem solved!

Ken

[RobRich]

Glad to help. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif