ati dvd playback problem

[Sushiman]

I am having a problem with my ati dvd playback software. I pop in a DVD, then the program opens up, but then it gives me an error.

1) sound card isnt hooked up
2) not enough video memory
3) video overlay ... (something, forgot error)

Anybody else have this problem, My sound card is hooked up... I have 256 megs ram... i dont know what video overlay is.

thanks in advance.

I have a creative dvd 6x rom

[Mojoman]

Well a video overlay is where the video card, takes a video feed from sometihng (im being simple here), and makes it nice and smooth (Again beign very simplistic here) - could we please have your system specs - we dont realyl know what were dealign with - might be a buggy soundcard (probably not but just for example) - Post your full specs please :) Or even better to save you ever typing them in again put them in your signature...



Peace.

[Sushiman]

Ok... well i think this soundcard was buggy a long time ago... but it appears to work fine, with games, audio playback. I dont know why it wouldn't work now. The rest of the system is as follows

amd k62-550 w/ asus p5a mobo
256 megs RAM
sound blaster pci128
creative dvd-6x
ati xpert 2000 pro w/ dvd playback support.
8 gig IBM HD

Here is the exact error message

playback has failed due to the one of the following problems:
1) Audio device is in use or not isntalled.
2) DIsplay overlay is not available.
3) Not enough video memory.

When installing the dvd software they provide, it notified me of a possible error. It said "dma is not enabled on my dvd drive" I tried to enable dma, but the button unchecked itself, which leads me to believe my drive is not DMA compatible? Now when i updated the dvd software, it said the same thing. But this time when i inserted the dvd, it would just freeze my machine. Thanks for any info here.

[Silversinksam]

If your running XP then theres a fix:

http://support.ati.com/drivers/misc/dvd_5_0.html

[Sushiman]

whoops should have mentioned im running ME. are there any fixes for this? I installed the latest drivers and the latest dvd software for the ati card? Are there any other software i can use (thats free or trial). thanks