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    M5N DVD ghosting

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by TomJ, Mar 7, 2005.

  1. TomJ

    TomJ Newbie

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    Hello Everyone,
    I'm a happy new owner of an Asus M5N, 1.6 GHz, 512 RAM, everything appears to be working fine, except for the DVD player - when I play a DVD movie (using the DVD player software provided by Asus) on battery power, there is noticeable ghosting (as well stuttering of sound) - in all Power4Gear settings available when using batteries.
    Playback is fluid when connected to AC power. Does this mean that DVDs will play properly only at the max power setting?

    What is your experience with this?
     
    TomJ, Mar 7, 2005
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  2. flaxx

    flaxx Notebook Evangelist

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    that's strange... it does it even in high performance mode? With my machine, i can run at full battery savings (throttle set to 25%) and DVD's play just fine without any visual/audio glitches. It even plays DivX with the post-processing settings at almost highest with 25% throttle (at the maximum, some DivX movies require me to throttle to 50%). So I don't know what to say except it shouldn't be doing that. I assume you're using an Pentium-M processor (Centrino).

    Asus M3NP 1.5GHz Centrino (Dothan /w 2mb L2)
    1GB PC2700 DDR
    40gb 5400rpm 8mb Cache Seagate Hard Drive /w 5 Year Warranty
    Intel 2200BG 802.11g Wireless
     
    flaxx, Mar 9, 2005
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