DVD Playback Problem

[zupertj]

Hey Video-Help forum!


I have just brought a new computer:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Fronton Blue Storm II
MSI X1950Pro
Liteon LH-18A1P
OCZ 800mhz CL3
WD 250 GB Sata II
Soundblaster Live! 24 bit external


But i have a problem.. Then i puts in a DVD in my Dvd-drive and begin to see my DVD it really lags!
I have casted a video on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=DiFLpo4UUmk showins my lag.
I have tried Cyperlink Power DVD, VLC and WMP11 - just the same lag.

I have installed ATI Avivo codex, Cyperlinks codec pack. Updated Chipset driver and Dvd-drive firmware and so on.

Can anyone help me?

[Baldrick]

If you play any video from the hd does you experience same problem? You can try rip the dvd to the hd using for example dvdfab decrypter and play it. If no problems you have some problem with the dvddrive.

[zupertj]

I have tried to play a ISO mounted file from my hdd. No problem at all.

So it is not the progress to play a DVD but to play it directly fra the dvd drive.. Is it my Motherboard og my DVD- drive?

[Krispy Kritter]

Ensure your drive(s) are using DMA mode and not PIO.

[zupertj]

How can i do that?

[Krispy Kritter]

control panel - system - device manager - IDE controllers - properties - advanced settings - transfer mode "DMA is available" and current transfer mode should be something other than PIO.

[jman98]

Are you running Windows XP by any chance? XP has a "feature" where if your DVD drive (or CD drive if you have an old drive that only does that) is an IDE slave drive that it may set it to PIO. I had that happen to me and it was a nightmare to fix it. If you think this may be the case based on what KrispyKritter said and no one comes up with anything better, if you feel comfortable using the Registry Editor to fix stuff, I saved some info at home on how to fix the variable that controls this.

Basically, with this problem the guys who wrote Windows wrote it so that slave drives have an insanely low timeout value before switching them to PIO mode and the fix is to change the timeout value to maximum it can hold. Reboot and your drive is now DMA. You may get lucky and be able to change the mode to DMA in the Device Manager, but that never worked for me for this problem. Others may post on a better way to do this without having to resort to the Registry Editor, but at the time it happened to me, that was the only fix I could find to the problem after doing a lot of searching on the internet about it.

[zupertj]

Found one secndary IDE controller and switched it from PIO to DRM.
It did not helped. Where can i eventually solve the problem from the registry?

[zupertj]

I still got the problem. Tryed putting another DVD-drive instead, same shitty lag.. Please Help!

[Krispy Kritter]

Have you tried more than one movie? Are these commercial dvd's or burned copies? Is the dvd(s) free of defects, scratches?

Also, are there other apps running while you are trying to watch the movies? Try disabling/closing any other applications. You can also check cpu usage to see which if any apps are using high cpu time using task manager.

[zupertj]

I have testet both commersial and uncommercial DVDs..
The cpu is about 10% load then playing.

Can be something whit my mainboard or BIOS? Eventually what?

My mainboard is MSI Platinum P965