Malpine Walis
Disabled
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2001
- Location
- Banned Camp
OK here is the deal. I use my main computer to watch DVDs a fair amount of the time. The fact is that I sit a foot away from my 19 inch monitor and ten feet from my 27 inch television. So I actually have a wider field of view on my computer and I get the full resolution of my monitor, which is obviously a good deal better than a regular TV. In fact, I have some DVDs of old 70's TV shows and on my computer, I can see the grain of the film that was used originally.
The problem is that I had to replace my DVD drive a while ago because my old drive gave up the ghost. I suspect that it was killed by some form of DRM but whatever. The fact is that I have a new drive and it works fine for installing software but it is just terrible for DVD playback.
What happens is that the picture seems to be dropping frames or something (I am not even sure what the proper language is to describe this) and it freezes for a fraction of a second every second or so. The audio stream is not affected and play just fine. But seeing the video freeze like ten times in ten seconds is very annoying.
I have already tried downloading new drivers for my graphics card, my mobo and flashing new firmware for the drive and nothing that I do is working. It seems as if something is not timing properly on my system. So what do you HTPC gurus think I should try next?
The problem is that I had to replace my DVD drive a while ago because my old drive gave up the ghost. I suspect that it was killed by some form of DRM but whatever. The fact is that I have a new drive and it works fine for installing software but it is just terrible for DVD playback.
What happens is that the picture seems to be dropping frames or something (I am not even sure what the proper language is to describe this) and it freezes for a fraction of a second every second or so. The audio stream is not affected and play just fine. But seeing the video freeze like ten times in ten seconds is very annoying.
I have already tried downloading new drivers for my graphics card, my mobo and flashing new firmware for the drive and nothing that I do is working. It seems as if something is not timing properly on my system. So what do you HTPC gurus think I should try next?