 DVD locks up PC
Warning: This is a genereal (not MP-specific question).
I have played back several DVDs that cause my PC to have all kinds of hick-ups. The sound and video start to stutter, then I cant navigate, then everything freeze more or less.
Usually I can get this sorted by manually opening the DVD-drive, and then regain control of my PC (using ctrl-alt-del if necessary to kill the hanging application). But at least one time, a blue-screen appeared complaining about the sound card driver (m-audio audiophile, very mature product and drivers).
This happens on the same place of those DVDs that are affected. AnyDVD reports that there are no bad-sector-copy-protection. And I can se no scratches visually, and a regular stand-alone pioneer DVD-player can play back without a singel stutter!
So.... Is my NEC DVD-RW 2500 or 3500 that lousy? Bad firmware/driver?
This is really frustrating because the WAF factor is severely decreased when the movie cannot be seen after viewing 75%...
regards
-k |