I have a serious DVD playback problem!

[Guest]

I am trying to watch professionally recorded DVD's on my computer. I am not
sure what has changed but recently, this does not work. I am using DVD's
that I have successfully watched on this same machine in the last couple of
weeks. Starting about two days ago, when I try to play DVD's, periodically
(every 5-30 seconds) it will randomly fast forward several seconds, sometimes
up to a minute, and then continue playback as normal. This happens when
using Dell Media Experience, Windows Media Player, or Interactual Player (the
only DVD playing programs I have installed). I have two drives for DVD. One
is a DVD-Rom Drive. The other is a DVD-R drive. I have been using the DVD-R
drive to play back DVD's. I just swaped the DVD with my game disc. In my
main drive it seems to play fine.

 

[R. McCarty]

Are all the Media players up to date ? On the DVD-R drive have you
select the Region code or is it set to "Not Selected". Finally, how are
these two drives connected to the PC (Primary/Secondary-M/S). If
they share an IDE channel, I've seen some unusual operation using that
connection style.You might want to check you Application & System
Event logs to see if either drive has experienced any read errors. After
a number of errors the operating mode may drop back from UDMA 2
to PIO and this could account for abnormal playback.

 

[MAP]

I am trying to watch professionally recorded DVD's on my computer. I
am not sure what has changed but recently, this does not work. I am
using DVD's that I have successfully watched on this same machine in
the last couple of weeks. Starting about two days ago, when I try to
play DVD's, periodically (every 5-30 seconds) it will randomly fast
forward several seconds, sometimes up to a minute, and then continue
playback as normal. This happens when using Dell Media Experience,
Windows Media Player, or Interactual Player (the only DVD playing
programs I have installed). I have two drives for DVD. One is a
DVD-Rom Drive. The other is a DVD-R drive. I have been using the
DVD-R drive to play back DVD's. I just swaped the DVD with my game
disc. In my main drive it seems to play fine.

I just swaped the DVD with my game disc. In my
main drive it seems to play fine.

Newer games are on DVD's,older or less graphicly intense games are on CD's
is this game disc on a DVD or CD? since a DVD drive can read both formats
but it uses different lasers to read, it could be something as simple as a
dirty lens.