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    Intermittent DVD Playback (short stops around every 2 secs.)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Freakish, Oct 30, 2006.

  1. Freakish

    Freakish Notebook Geek

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    When I play DVDs, the DVD playback stops for about half a second around every 2 seconds. This happens with every DVD that I play on my DVD drive and on every dvd playback software that I use (Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic are among them, although some players like ASUS DVD Player seems to make the stop effect less noticeable). I tried the same DVDs on other players and they seem fine. Could this be just a problem with dirty lenses ar a configuration problem? The computer is an ASUS A6R notebook, WinXP SP2. The DVD drive seems to be working fine when I try reading/copying files from it.

    RAM doesn't seem to be an issue, I only have 384MB but the only software running when I play the DVDs is avast Antivirus and the media player I use to play the DVDs.
     
    Freakish, Oct 30, 2006
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