I just got a new laptop, an Asus. AsusDVD (which is a version of PowerDVD) plays commercial and high-quality-source homemade DVDs fine, but my homemade DVDs (from poor VHS source, but the DVDs are fine - they played fine on my old laptop, my desktop, my standalone DVD players, etc.) horribly - all pixellated, virtually unwatchable. So I tried my own versions of PowerDVD (6) and WinDVD (Platinum, v.6), which I run on my desktop.

With PowerDVD, commercial discs load okay, but homemade discs load incredibly slowly, taking up to 2-3 minutes. These discs load fine for PowerDVD on my desktop, without any delay. I couldn't get *any* DVD to load on WinDVD. I have DVDIdle enabled; when I disable the cache function, WinDVD will load the disc, but it takes forever.

These same discs loaded very quickly for AsusDVD even with DVDIdle fully enabled - they just didn't play well! - and load immediately into Windows Media Player (also with DVDIdle fully enabled), but I hate using WMP.

Any thoughts as to why WinDVD and this version of PowerDVD would take so long to recognize and load the discs, while the Asus version of PowerDVD and Windows Media recognize them immediately?