Problem playing DVD'S with POWERDVD

[SolidWing68]

Just recently I bought a DVD Burner and apart of the features aside from burning dvdr/dvdrw/etc, it can play DVD'S. It came with software and I seen InterVideo WinDVD on there but my friend told me to try PowerDVD. So I installed powerdvd, I popped in my dvd into the dvd burner drive and Powerdvd came up saying 2 drives were found because I have a cdrw drive installed also, and it said Powerdvd will use DVD-RW Drive(D So I selected ok, I waited a few minutes and when I clicked the program it said not responding. So I uninstalled it and tried windvd and that worked fine. Anybody know what the problem with powerdvd can be?.

[stackner]

ello. firstly what version of powerdvd hve you got? and what are your system specs?

i have used powerdvd v3 v4 v5. i was using powerdvd v4 and it wored fine then i upgraded my pc to a p4 2.8 ht and it would no longer play dvd no mater what i tried but other software players like windvd played them fine. then i upgraded to version 5 and it works fine. my guess is it is something in v4 messing with p4 hyperthreading or something in your system.

hope this helps.

[jimmalenko]

A program locking up on its first execution is nothing to worry about. If it continually locks up after reboots etc. then you have a problem.

[SolidWing68]

Hi stackner I remember it was version 5.0 of powerdvd. And my system specs are as follow..

~ Intel Celeron 1.40GHZ Processor
~ 256 MB SDRAM
~ NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 128MB
~ NEC DVDRW ND-2500A

[Gplracer]

The 56.xx nvidia drivers messed up my dvd playback. I went back to the 53.xx drivers and all is fine.

[SolidWing68]

I just updated my drivers which are 5672 now and before I think I was using 5303 drivers. I only got these new drivers because they were released april 1st.. Also, WinDVD didn't have a problem playing the dvd like I said..But what should I do?