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mello
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Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject:
DVD Playback Sticky |
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New Compaq Laptop running XP Home...
I'm not extremely technical, but I'm willing to try anything once! I have a
bunch of DVDs that I cannot play (in full) in any of my players (InterVideo,
InterActual and MediaPlayer). I thought maybe it had to do with the fact
that some of my movies are international copies - until Blockbuster did it to
me, too. A movie will sometimes:
-freeze on insertion, not recognize disc
-play and halt in about 3 seconds.
-play and halt halfway through the movie.
-play and halt sporadically, recover until it freezes completely.
I have gotten an error message saying my decoders are incomplete, only to
start over and have the movie play in full without having to do anything
else. I have installed nVidia's decoder, which is compatible with InterVideo
(the program that has the decoders on my machine).
I find the errors/freezing to be somewhat inconsistent.
I have used troubleshooter, called tech support only to hang up mid-way
(time restraints), and have messed with many, many video settings.
Can anyone give me some feedback?
Aloha
~mello
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ronald
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:41 am Post subject:
RE: DVD Playback Sticky |
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unistall everything and install only one dvd player program.
or run in safe mode and try to edit.
"mello" wrote:
| Quote: | New Compaq Laptop running XP Home...
I'm not extremely technical, but I'm willing to try anything once! I have a
bunch of DVDs that I cannot play (in full) in any of my players (InterVideo,
InterActual and MediaPlayer). I thought maybe it had to do with the fact
that some of my movies are international copies - until Blockbuster did it to
me, too. A movie will sometimes:
-freeze on insertion, not recognize disc
-play and halt in about 3 seconds.
-play and halt halfway through the movie.
-play and halt sporadically, recover until it freezes completely.
I have gotten an error message saying my decoders are incomplete, only to
start over and have the movie play in full without having to do anything
else. I have installed nVidia's decoder, which is compatible with InterVideo
(the program that has the decoders on my machine).
I find the errors/freezing to be somewhat inconsistent.
I have used troubleshooter, called tech support only to hang up mid-way
(time restraints), and have messed with many, many video settings.
Can anyone give me some feedback?
Aloha
~mello |
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bxf
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:
Re: DVD Playback Sticky |
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| Quote: | From your description, I'd be tempted to take my machine to the shop
(or to a friend who has an external DVD drive) and see if my DVDs play |
properly using an external drive - just to eliminate the possibility of
a hardware problem. |
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