2 issues: Jerky display from DVD, video out to TV is ugly

[johnson12]

2 issues:

1 The playback from the DVD is jerky on the monitor and on the TV.
Any ideas?

2 I am using a VCR to get the video signal to the TV; Copy protection is annoying.
Any fixes?

Not interested in copying.


AMD k6-2 500
128meg ram
G450 eTV
Sony DDU1621 DVD

J

[Greebe]

Can answer item #1

shut down all background tasks when playing back a DVD.

Cineplayer appears to have atm the greatest CPU utilization followed by Power DVD4 XP and then WinDVD with the lowest utilization.

You're not running the fastest cpu so moving to another player or at least with the above suggestion of turning all background tasks off should get you back to the promised land

[johnson12]

Thank you for your reply.

I am using WinDVD and the Matrox player.

No backrground tasks.

Once when I started WinDVD a dialog informed that DMA was not set for the DVD player.

It was checked: I had looked for this possible solution earlier.

So I unchecked it, rebooted, checked it, rebooted.

Have not seen that dialog again.

But I am thinking that DMA is not working properly.

More to learn.


J