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Well, I've tried a thing or two and nothing has seemed to help.  I did
enable DMA on the CD Writer which helped it but not the DVD drive.  I never
got around to ripping the DVD to the hard drive but I belive I have decided
that it is in fact a DVD drive problem.  Here are some things I have
discovered (remember I only have the X-Men DVD right now and this is the
only one I'm testing with):

*  In the WinDVD set up I moved the slider all the way from best quality to
best performance and it didn't help.  All I got was a worse picture.

*  I bumped up to 1024x768 from 800x600 and it didn't help although the
video was somewhat clearer.

*  Video is shaky in both full screen and windowed modes.

*  Movie shakes in approx. the same places in the movie everytime.  The
places that are shaking almost appear to be getting worse.

This leaves me at 2 conclusions:
1.  My DVD drive can't handle the movie at certain points for whatever
reasons
or
2.  The DVD disc may be messed up.

I skipped over towards the end of the movie and it doesn't have that
problem.  I am really getting aggrivated that I can't watch a smooth movie
on this machine.  The computer can obviously handle it because I get great
quality when it isn't skipping.  It's almost like the drive is having
trouble reading the disc at certain points.  I hope this info will help
someone find a solution to this problem.  :-(

Rayjo


"Rayjo Thath" <xtuba@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9jd17p$175$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> Hmm.... you have some interesting points.  I have noticed that when the
> video stutters, the DVD makes a sound like it is reading differently than
it
> has previously in the movie.  That is to say it has went from a smooth
> spinning type read to one where it seems like it is searching on the disk.
> I hope that makes sense.  Anyway, I'm going to go enable DMA on my writer
> and see if that helps.  I don't know why it isn't enabled other than the
> fact that it is the system default.  Also, I did run across a program the
> other day that would copy a DVD to the hard drive so I will try that as
> well.  Thanks for your help.
>
> Rayjo
>
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