DVD Playback Problem

[rckowal]

I'm a complete "Newbie" to My Theatre (DVB TV card software) with only limited experience on this forum, so bear with me until I get better oriented. In fact, I'm not even sure that I'm in the right forum!

I just installed My Theatre 3.33 (free trial version) for the first time yesterday - no DVB board installed yet - just the MT software. After doing so, I noticed that (related or not??) neither of my DVD drives (two, both internal) were playing back the way they should. One is an older H-P burner & the other is a standard Lite-on. When playing back (either commercially recorded or home made) DVDs in either drive, the video is choppy & the audio sounds like it's verrrry sloooooow (garbled & indiscernable). Any & all played normally before My Theatre was installed.

Since I have several DVD playback programs installed on this PC, I tried all of them & got the following results. Windows Media Player & Real Player both played choppy video with distorted audio. Power DVD played audio normally but with no video. However, Nero played back completely normal. Since the only change made was the installation of My Theatre, I am naturally suspicous (but too dumb to know) of possible incompatabilities, or incorrect settings, with my installation of MT.

Would those of you who understand the inner workings of MT; please tell me if I'm on the right track, or the cause of my issue is else where. Or, if posible, how to diagnose & fix this condition. Of course, I can uninstall MT to see if it is the source, but I will still have no idea of how to fix it. Any, & all assistance will be much appreciated.

[Krispy Kritter]

I would guess that MT installed new/different codecs or associated itself in the playing of certain files or DVD's.

[rckowal]

Thanks for the reply Krispy Kritter, it's appreciated.

To test the notion that installation of My Theatre created the issue, I did a Windows Restore back to a date before MT was installed. This failed to restore normal playback using Power DVD.

So, unless I'm missing some thing, it doesn't appear that MT is the cause in this case.

Do you have any other ideas? I could sure use some.

Best regards

[Krispy Kritter]

Unless I'm mistaken, Power DVD installs its own mpeg2 codec. Try uninstalling/installing Power DVD again.

[rckowal]

Krispy Kritter, I uninstalled & re-installed PowerDVD & that did the trick. Now it plays back as it should. Appears that maybe some thing got corrupted. Thanks for the tip.

Best regards