DVD locks up PC (1 Viewer)

[knutinh]

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

 

[knutinh]

Also:
It seems that MP 0.2.1.0 asks 3 times if I want to play an inserted DVD:

MediaPortal:
A DVD was inserted, do you want to play it? yes/no

My pictures:
A DVD was inserted, do you want to play it? yes/no

My pictures:
A DVD was inserted, do you want to play it? yes/no


(text translated back from norwegian to english, may differ from the english version)

-k

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

If something like PowerDVD can play it all the way through ok, then the drive is fine.
If it will not then it's time to send back, or replace depending on how old the drive is.