InterActual playback problems

[jaybird]

InterActual 2.0 DVD player software is "jerky" at times with "movie" DVD's (Lord Of The Rings, The Perfect Storm, etc.")

I am using a loaded Gigabyte dual PIII motherboard(VIA133 Pro chipset):

dual 1100E PIII's @ 1.26 ghz, 110 mhz fsb
512 meg P133 SDRAM
1, 20 gig 7200 rpm ATA100 hdd for dual OS's(98SE/WIN2000 Pro)
1, 60 gig for video work
Matrox G400 vid card
SBLive 5.1 Platinum sound card
WinTV GO! capture card
SIIG multi-purpose PCI card(ATA100, RAID, USB,Firewire)
Adaptec SCSII for Microtek scanner
10/100 NIC
Lite-on 52X 24X 52X CD 'burner
Panasonic DVD-RAM/DVD-R 'burner
Pioneer 104S DVD slot-fed player
Kenwood TrueX 52X CD player

I have gone to Gigabyte's website and updated my 4 in 1 drivers
I have installed the PCI "Latency" patch
I have done everything that InterActual says to do if encountering "jerky" playback and I still get it! Not very bad but very annoying considering that with the same hardware and an old BP6 MoBo and dual Celeron 366's oc'd to 571 mhz these same DVD's played flawlessly using an older version of Intervideo WinDVD software.

The reason for going to the Gigabyte board;

Greater CPU speed, Larger on-board CACHE, faster encoding.

NOTE: This does NOT happen with the DVD's I author and burn!

Any ideas?

Regards,

jaybird

[redwudz]

Just my opinion, but I avoid InterActual Player like I would a virus. It has hijacked my video settings and has created serious problems with my system each and every time I made the mistake of running it. .

For DVD, I would try something like PowerDVD for convenience or Zoom Player for versatility. The fact that your system will play burned DVDs OK tells me it should play commercial discs even better.

[jaybird]

You hit the nail on the head!

As soon as I was able to run PowerDVD my problems went away!

Thanks!

OBTW, you were also right about Interactual, what a mess, I not only had to manually remove a large part of it, I also had to manually edit the registry before PowerDVD would run right.

Thanks again.

Regards,

jaybird

[Elf Lady]

I have a somewhat related issue: after I installed XP SP2, both InterActual and PowerDVD will no longer play some older DVD's like LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring. I did uninstall and then reinstalled PowerDVD (also removed InterActual). PowerDVD plays newer DVD's just fine. Is this a driver/codec issue?

Thank you.

I have NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 card
AC3 Filter
PowerDVD 4.0
Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616T
DVDRW IDE1004
WindowsXP SP2
Intel Pentium 4 2.40HGz

[Elf Lady]

I resorted to downloading DVD Region+CSS Free and it solved my problem. Can now play the older DVD's.