Can't get new DVD to play - help please.

[scourge]

I just purchased a Memorex 6x DVD software kit from Office Depot. It's installed and works fine as a cdrom, etc. It came with PowerDVD and it crashes everytime I try to play the movie (Star Trek: First Contact) I bought. I get the following error:

"POWERDVD caused an invalid page fault in
module DDRAW.DLL at 015f:baabf3dd.
Registers:
EAX=00000870 CS=015f EIP=baabf3dd EFLGS=00010202
EBX=82f4affc SS=0167 ESP=0075f218 EBP=0075f2c0
ECX=c140c850 DS=0167 ESI=b00bea90 FS=295f
EDX=00017b04 ES=0167 EDI=82f4af48 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f6 00 01 50 74 07 e8 c2 45 01 00 eb 05 e8 7c 42
Stack dump:
00000000 baacf892 00000870 00000000 82f4b090 82f4af48 0075f4ec 8304ad34 82f4aaa4 0075f26c baabf8d0 00000000 00000680 000001e0 453a4cec 00000000"

I assume this has something to do with DirectX so I'm downloading 7.0 from microsoft. Will this fix the problem? or is there an easier solution?

In case you need to know, system is:
FIC 503+ 1.2A VIA chipset(latest drivers & bios) w/ AMD K6-2 350@415
Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D (latest drivers)
Diamond Monster Voodoo1 (latest drivers)
64 meg RAM
Memorex 6x DVD

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!!!

[scourge]

O.K. DirectX 7.0 didn't do squat. I've downloaded XingDVD and it wouldn't play it either. I need some input because I just don't know enough about this stuff to make it work.

[Vampiel]

Does it have a hardware mpeg decoder?

[scourge]

No, it doesn't have a hardware decoder. A friend of mine told me that my computer was fast enough to run a software driven DVD. All the kit says is that it needs a DirectX compatible svga video card. My C/L Graphics Blaster 3D has the latest drivers.

[scourge]

O.K., I got the thing working, but only by disabling Direct Draw. The playback ain't so great. A little choppy and words/sounds don't exactly match up with what's happening on screen. Just a slight lag, but enough to be annoying. Anyway to get this thing to run better? Besides of course, buying a decoder card. Let me rephrase, anyway to get this thing to run better that doesn't require money? Time I've got, money I don't.

[chipbgt]

I just bought a dvd player today, and that power dvd thing is a piece of ****. I have an ati card so I use it for hardware decoding. find somethign else, that power dvd woudl skipp like 30 seconds everytime it skipped to the next segment of the dvd.

[Vampiel]

yea, search around the web and try different DVD software mpeg decoders, some work well with some DVD drives while they dont even work on other DVD drives, you just have to try many of them.

[scourge]

O.K., I've got this thing running well enough to where I can watch the DVD without becoming too annoyed. An additional problem that I wasn't worried about before is that everything in the movie is lisping! There's a constant "sssssss" on every sound. Is this the nature of DVD software decoding or is my old Sound Blaster 16 PNP finally showing its true age? What audio card would fix this problem and might also improve playback performance? Thanks for the input!