Winodws Media Player playing movies slow.

[Guest]

I just purchased a LITEON 16XDVD-ROM. I installed it on my DELL PC running
Windows XP SP2. I currently have Window Media Player 9 when i insert my DVD
it plays really slow and choppy. I installed the software Power DVD and ran
the DVD movie on there and it seemed fine. Playing was fine sound everything.

What could be going on with Windows Media Player.

 

[Rock]

I just purchased a LITEON 16XDVD-ROM. I installed it on my DELL PC running
Windows XP SP2. I currently have Window Media Player 9 when i insert my
DVD
it plays really slow and choppy. I installed the software Power DVD and
ran
the DVD movie on there and it seemed fine. Playing was fine sound
everything.

What could be going on with Windows Media Player.

I suggest you post to the media player newsgroup.
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...b05-dd10-4f1f-944c-7446df588cb9&lang=en&cr=us

 

[Guest]

This is most likey due to a UDMA (Ultra Direct Memory Access) issue on ur
disc drive. This can be caused by either a piece of hardware or a driver. Go
to start>right-click my computer>properties>hardware>device manager. Locate
"IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and right-click>properties>advanced settings for
each on until u hit ur disc driver (note that ur hard driver will be here
also). If ur disc drive is listed as being in PIO mode or anything less than
UDMA 4 than this is why ur movies are choppy.

The solution to the above is to check ur PATA cables, connections and in
some cases un-install ne RAID drivers u have - as these like to play havoc on
disc drives (note - don't do this is u rely on RAID for your hard drives).
Also, try updating the firmware on ur disc drive as well (be careful with
this). It could even be ur motherboard.