WinDVD replays last VCD instead of present one

[dahveed3]

This is strange. I'm using WinDVD 5 Platinum on Windows XP HE SP1 with Adaptec ASPI 4.60, Sonic RecordNow 6.5, and MusicMatch Jukebox 8.1 installed. If I play a VCD, stop, and eject it, then load a different VCD, WinDVD will play the material that was on the previously loaded disc! If, however, I eject the first VCD, then close WinDVD and restart it, then load another VCD, WinDVD will then play the current disc. This doesn't happen with DVD's, only VCD's. Also, if I only had played the first chapter of the first VCD, then only the first chapter of the next loaded VCD will be the previous material. If I click forward to further chapters, WinDVD plays them from the present disc. But, if I click back to the first chapter on the present disc, it plays the first chapter of the previously loaded disc! I suppose it will play as much of the prior material as I had viewed before changing discs. I seems like what is being played is loaded into memory somewhere, then used again no matter what actual VCD is in the drive. I'm new to WinDVD, having recently removed PowerDVD because I wasn't satisfied with its VCD playback. WinDVD (at least, on this system) is more reliable as to keeping the lip sync, picture quality, etc. But I sure don't understand this weirdness.

Dennis

[hech54]

I had the same problem with 98SE and Mediaplayer. Even closing the player and re-opening did not help sometimes. Never figured out why...sorry.

[dahveed3]

Heh. Solved it by removing WinDVD 5 and going back to WinDVD 4.5. I don't understand why companies always seem to introduce new features and break old one's. The last straw was when a VCD started jumping back to the beginning after a few minutes into it. When played in Nero Showtime or my Apex console, it didn't do this, so I know it isn't the VCD. The whole reason I jumped ship from PowerDVD was because the WinDVD VCD playback is practically perfect as far as lip sync and picture quality whereas PowerDVD 4 or 5 was giving problems. DVD's are about the same in either brand, but, ha, WinDVD 5 had a problem where the DVD's where jittery at times. I'm seeing no problems with WinDVD 4.5. Maybe my computer is fussy, as all these players seem to always get great reviews.

Dennis