Problem Playing Dvds

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King_Nothing
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Problem Playing Dvds

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Hey all, a few days ago out of the blue, my cpu seems to have lost the ability to play dvd or dvd files at full screen resolution without being choppy as shit. I havent done anything or installed anything drastic in the past few days so I cant explain it. It can play other video files fine, but just not dvds via the drive or dvd files off the harddrive.
Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated :P Other than getting a new cpu, Im workin on that, hah.
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Re: Problem Playing Dvds

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What's your current set-up?
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Re: Problem Playing Dvds

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AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.41 GHZ
756 MB Ram
64 MB Geforce Video Card


Ive never had problems doing it until this week, nothing was changed hardware wise.
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Re: Problem Playing Dvds

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Since it can play other files fine, I would uninstall your software DVD player (powerDVD, winDVD...) that installed the mpeg2 codec. Then reinstall it.

Try VLC. It doesn't use installed codecs but its own code and is usually much faster
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Re: Problem Playing Dvds

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If the playing is choppy, check which programs are running by CTRL + ALT + DEL and check the processes. Something may be running that takes up a lot of system memory.
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