DVD playing on my computer problem?

Question

I have tried playing DVD's on my compter and the picture is just so static and jumpy and after a minute or too, it just freeze's and I have to close the programme (which then says its not responding)

I have windows media player 11 and media player classic and they both do exactly the same. I have tried to alter the screen resolution (which media player "help" suggested) and actually went onto microsofts mediaplayer help web-site and tried everything it suggessted to no avail. In the end it just said I should take my computer to a computer technician..

Can anybody please give me any other things to try

I have AMD Duron Processor, 807MHz with 640MB of RAM with XP Pro SP2.

My computer at work is a lower spec than mine and that is fine playing DVD's, I do not get it at all, Please help if you can

Answer 1

It's possible you have a dirty lense. Try using a DVD lense cleaner, it won't hurt.

Also it's wise to load in the DVD media player that came with the DVD drive. You may be missing a certain codec that's more compatible.

There are issues to think about other than software. It's not a good idea to have your hard drive and DVD drive on the same cable. If you have two hard drives, it's better to have the two hard drives on one cable and the DVD drive on a separate cable.

Also it could be a video card issue. Is the video card current enough to play DVDs? I would certainly update the video card drivers if I was having issues playing DVDs.

And yes, don't run Windows XP below 512MB of RAM. You're just asking for trouble.

Answer 2

Try using a different DVD software besides Windows Media Player. Most have trial version that you can play with for 30 days or so. I use PowerDVD an it works great. There are many others as well, just take a look around.

Answer 3

Hi. You should probably have at least 1GB of RAM. A lot of freezes occur during file swapping to and from the harddrive. RAM minimizes this swapping.