DVD Player 'pauses'?

[egb]

While watching DVDs on my machine, Apple's DVD Player 'pauses' or 'pulses' - 2 to five seconds of replay, followed by a 1/4 second of freeze frame. The audio never pauses during this time and it seems to happen whether I'm watching the original, a backup, or files on the HD.

I've gone to all the usual sites and can't find a similar problem. My next guess is that it may be QuickTime?

Thoughts?

[terryj]

more info please:

Model of your computer, latest OS you are running,
amount of Hard drive space, amount of FREE hard drive
space, are you on a laptop or a desktop, amount of ram,
you have, version of DVD Player you are using.

Are you having any other apps open while this happens?
with Activity Monitor launched and playing/watching this
problem VIDEO_TS folder, what does it tell you as far
as open processes and available memory?

[egb]

Machine Model: Power Mac G5
CPU Type: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.5f1

OSX 10.3.8. 250gb HD with 120gb free (MAY be fragmented?).

Nothing running except DVD Player. Turned off all the visible apps and it's still happening. I'll snapshot a Process Window and post soon.

[JoachimS]

This can happen when sound is encoded with 44,1kHz instead of 48kHz in the MPEG/VOB stream. Kinda do-it-yourself DVD?

Cheers,

Joachim