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    Inspiron 9300 Choppy DVD Playback

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by inspiron9300, Aug 27, 2005.

  1. inspiron9300

    inspiron9300 Newbie

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    When I play DVDs using the Windows Media Center, DVD playback quality is very choppy! However, when I use PowerDVD, everything seems to work fine. Can anyone please help? Any suggestions/comments would be appreciated. Thank you!
     
    inspiron9300, Aug 27, 2005
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  2. Tiberus

    Tiberus Notebook Enthusiast

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    Check that you have the latest video drivers for your graphics chipset. You can get new drivers from support.dell.com that should work perfectly with media center. Media Center requires more juice from your video card because of the way it draws to the screen over PowerDVD, so old drivers might cause problems.

    In the past for me Media Center has also been sensitive to other programs doing things in the background, especially of those things were accesssing the hard drive while watching tv/dvd's it seemed. I've also had problems on slower machines running MC at extremely high resolutions. My 2Ghz i6000 runs MC fine though at 1680x1050. I don't know what your specs are. Try pressing alt-enter in Media Center to turn it into a small window on your screen, and see if the DVD playback becomes smooth.
     
    Tiberus, Aug 27, 2005
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  3. rebuL

    rebuL Notebook Enthusiast

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    If you have an Nvidia video card (the GeForce6800)...then try enabling VMR in your Display properties.

    Its located in your Video Overlay settings tab (should be a checkmark on the bottom left).
    That should do the trick!
     
    rebuL, Aug 27, 2005
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  4. Tomas

    Tomas Notebook Consultant

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    Are you maybe in pio mode? NM it only happens in wmp? weird...
     
    Tomas, Aug 28, 2005
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  5. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Use PowerDVD.
     
    ZaZ, Aug 28, 2005
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  6. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Yes, I don't use anything else - PowerDVD 5.0!
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 29, 2005
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