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No one is magically going to just come up with a silution to solve your
problem.  The 2 things left are to try another drive in your machine, and
try your drive in another system that is known to be working fine(by
swapping out the drive already installed).  Now you will know for sure.

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Biz

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Rayjo Thath <xtuba@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9jdk67$anj$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> 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
> >
> >
>
>