my DVD movie is suddenly skipping

[Canuck]

I have been using DVD2SVCD for about 10 backups now. I never had a problem with this great program. I woke up today to do another one and this is where the problems began with my computer (not DVD2SVCD related).

As usual, I inserted the DVD into my player to play the movie for a few minutes as suggested by all the tutorials. Today I noticed the picture was "jumpy" (like my computer couldn't keep up with the movie) and not very smooth. This is what I have done so far to try to fix it...

1) Did a system restore back to yesterday (when everything was running fine)
2) Unsuccesfully uninstalled QuickTime which I installed yesterday (stupid program wont uninstall). I can't see this being the problem but it is the ONLY program I have installed between my last successfull rip and today.
3) Did a defrag
4) As always, I closed all non-essential programs
5) tried other DVD's to see if maybe that one was flawed..not the problem obviously.

Listed below are my system details. Does anyone have a clue what the problem could be. I have been searching all day for an idea what to try but havent found any that I haven't already listed above. Do you think that it will affect my ripping?Thank you to everyone who replies.

Aussie

[poopyhead]

hard to tell with these all-in-one proggies like dvd2svcd and dvdx

try using the time-tested method of smartripper->dvd2avi->tmpgenc

very easy to diagnose problems because u have different programs for different steps...so you can pinpoint which steps are malfunctioning (also more flexible too)

[Canuck]

Thanks for replying so quickly. Unfortunately, there doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the programs I am using. It is the DVD I am having problems with. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I am bad that way. The problem I am having is that when I play the original DVD on my computer (all the tutorials suggest playing the movie for a few minutes to help unlock it???). In the past I have played DVD's on the computer, and played the 5 minute "unlock" with no problems. Then suddenly I woke up and the movie is not playing properly on my computer... kinda jerks and kinda skips and isnt smooth at all. I have a 64 meg video card.

Any ideas on why the DVD is suddenly not playing properly on my computer and will this effect my ripping?

[poopyhead]

clean the disc surface..could have scratched, dust, etc..

[Canuck]

clean the disc surface..could have scratched, dust, etc..

OK..just tried that...still nothing but good suggestion.

I also put in the DVD I watched yesterday (which I watched without a glitch) and it is also doing it now..... grrrrrrrrr.... it has to be something simple that I am missing...but what????

[mh2360]

Probably not this but.....

I once had a similar problem, games would play very jerky, and video would pause and stutter... It seems that one of my DIMM boards had somehow worked loose, and I was only running with 32mb.. check you still have all RAM you SHOULD have....