PC DVD doing funny things- help needed

[williamp]

Hi all,

I have a Pioneer DVD-Rom in my home PC.I got a DVD a few days ago, and since then it doies strange things. Firstly, it will only play about 5 minutes of the DVD at a time. The sound continues, but the picture freezes.

I then have to re-start the Dvd player. This happens every 5 minutes or so.

Secondly the speakers emit a strange noise every now-and-then (especially when I right nmouse click). It sounds like a bit of distortion, and only lasts a moment.

I have re-installed my sound carsd drivers, but it doesnt do anything.

Any ideas??

Oh, it plays music CD-s fine, with no problem at all.

Thanks

[gopher]

What spec pc do you have? processor, memory, graphics card etc ?

edited to say

have you played other dvd's ok and its just this one - or is this the first you've tried?

>> Edited by gopher on Friday 4th April 20:03

[ErnestM]

What software are you using to play the DVD? Sounds like you got a "crippleware" demo version of the DVD software and you just need to purchase the full version...

ErnestM

[kevinday]

Its possible your motherboard is not up to the task of playing DVDs without choppy reproduction. What is the PC spec?

[david010167]

I vote on the demo software: Power DVD certainly does this, runs for a bit and them no sound.

Have a look on the web for a freeware DVD player and see if this cures the problem.

Also check to see if you have the latest drivers for the DVD player for the version of windows you are running, try the pioneer of microsoft site. Also check that DMA is turned on for the DVD player.

David