A newbie with a DVD playback problem!

[Sipowicz]

I have only just started in this DVD burning game (initially for back-up to large Photofolders - CD's too small) but have started to back up some movies and want to eventually, back up 8mm cine film (oh the ambition!)

I seem to have a conflict on my system that is baffling me. I have Win XP as my o/s, I have Nero 6 for burning and DVDXCOPY Xpress (ver3.0.5)for dvd back-up (fed up with my son eating the dvd boxes, letting him have the back-ups only). The problem is with playback in Nero showtime. I get a very choppy and slow playback and then video locks up . The same happens in Power DVD. Back-up discs have failed to be recognised in everything (inc Media player 9). However, when I remove DVDXCopy, I can playback in Power DVD with no problem (even the back-up discs that were not recognised before).

The question at the end of this long winded pre-amble is; Has anyone else suffered a similar problem and how did they get around it?

For info, my system is home built, I run an XP2400 on a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Ultra M/board, 1Gb 2700DDR, Radeon 7500 graphics, , 80Gb WD HDD. I have an NEC 1300a as master with a Lite-On 48x24x48 CDRW as slave and a Lite-On 16X DVD ROM as slave to the HDD. Sound is through a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card and Cambridge Soundworks Desktop theatre DTT2200.

Thanks in advance

[bottle-necked]

Lite-On 16X DVD ROM as slave to the HDD

Not to change the subject, but I never put CD-ROM drives (or dvd drives) on the same ribbon cable as hard drives. There are very few controllers that can operate that way. Lordsmurf has a PCI IDE controller that allows such a hookup, but my experiences with onboard IDE controllers says this is not a good practice. Unless you're one of those fortunate ones like smurf, I'd change my setup.

Good luck with your problem.

[soundforbjt]

Have you tried updating DVDXCopy XPress to the latest version, which I believe is 3.20?

[pharlap]

what version of nero are u using

[Sipowicz]

I am running Nero 6 and I have tried to upgrade to Version 3.2 of DVD Xcopy Xpress, but with no success! I'll give it another go later