Fix my DVD...please...

[Mike K]

I just got a new CenDyne 16x DVD player for christmas...and today I rented a DVD, Freedy got Fingered, and the picture looks like it keeps skipping, sort of like it is trying to play the DVD in 2 programs at once. I am using WinDVD. I tried Media Player, but that didn' t work, and I tried the DVD player that comes with Windows ME and that turned out the same thing as WinDVD.
Please help I need to fix it before I have to return the videos.(I also got Swordfish;) )

[Bmxpunk86pl]

what do use for decoding? software or hardware?

[Mike K]

I dont really know that much about DVD but I guess its software...WinDVD

[Shadow ÒÓ]

what speed is your system? a slower system will more than likely NEED a decoder card.

I've run WinDVD and PowerDVD from a P III 733 and it's acceptable...faster is much better tho.

Do you have a decient vid card?

[Mike K]

I am using the DVD in a 900 Duron system, with a GeForce 2 64MB MX 200 card

[Shadow ÒÓ]

How much memory in your rig, and running anything in the background?

Sounds good so far.

[Mike K]

I have 256 MB PC133 and I am not running anything in the backgroung, at least it does not show in the close program window

[Mike K]

does ne1 have ne ideas...I already watched the movies at my friends house so I do not need to fix it so soon...but I would really like to fix it so I can watch it in the future...the movies were okay at his house so I know that the DVDs are not the problem...I would appreciate ne input that ne1 has...also I tried the drive alone on the IDE cable in case that would work but it didn' t...thanks

[NeoMoses]

make sure you have DMA enabled. Also, make sure that DMA is enabled for both devices on that IDE channel (if there are 2 on it.) let us know if that fixes it.

[Mike K]

How would I enable DMA on both drives? Is it in the BIOS?

[Mike K]

Well I looked everywhere in the BIOS and I could not find ne thing about DMA. Maybe I didn' t see it? Well, I' ll look there again. Maybe you don' t enable DMA there? I don' t know. Does ne1 else know how to enable DMA?

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by m_mike_k
Well I looked everywhere in the BIOS and I could not find ne thing about DMA. Maybe I didn' t see it? Well, I' ll look there again. Maybe you don' t enable DMA there? I don' t know. Does ne1 else know how to enable DMA? right click my computer/properties/and Go to your device manager then double click IDE/ATAPI controllers/double click all your IDE devices/go to advanced settings and you can enable them in there...

[Mike K]

yes that fixed it, it finally works now. What exactly is DMA or what does it do? Thanks for all the help everyone.:D :D :D

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I've heard Dynamic Memory Addressing and Direct Memory Access.

Here's (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DMA.html) webopedia's explanation.

[Mike K]

cool
thanks everyone, for the help