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DVD stuttering
I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player.
Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul |
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"Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. I have to agree with Paul - it's probably the DVD you're playing rather than your DVD player, if you see what I mean. The fact that other DVD movies play ok points strongly in that direction. Now the only question is whether or not you have a faulty disk or if it's down to something like the protection causing problems. If it's the latter then probably there will be plenty of posts online from others having similar problems. |
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"Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. I have to agree with Paul - it's probably the DVD you're playing rather than your DVD player, if you see what I mean. The fact that other DVD movies play ok points strongly in that direction. Now the only question is whether or not you have a faulty disk or if it's down to something like the protection causing problems. If it's the latter then probably there will be plenty of posts online from others having similar problems. |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul Thank you, Paul! I'll check out Nero DiscSpeed. I just Googled the movie and couldn't find anything about the regular DVD, although there seemed to be problems with the Blu-Ray version (not what I have). One person at Amazon complained that two out of four discs in a DVD set that included my movie stuttered but didn't specify this one. Mine came as one of four movies in a different set; I guess I'd better play the others soon to determine if they're OK. One other question, probably off-topic: Do there tend to be more quality issues in sets of unrelated DVD movies than in singles? The other movies I've played so far have been singles. Thank you again! Jo-Anne Jo-Anne |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul Thank you, Paul! I'll check out Nero DiscSpeed. I just Googled the movie and couldn't find anything about the regular DVD, although there seemed to be problems with the Blu-Ray version (not what I have). One person at Amazon complained that two out of four discs in a DVD set that included my movie stuttered but didn't specify this one. Mine came as one of four movies in a different set; I guess I'd better play the others soon to determine if they're OK. One other question, probably off-topic: Do there tend to be more quality issues in sets of unrelated DVD movies than in singles? The other movies I've played so far have been singles. Thank you again! Jo-Anne Jo-Anne |
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DVD stuttering
"Rob Moir" wrote in message
... "Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. I have to agree with Paul - it's probably the DVD you're playing rather than your DVD player, if you see what I mean. The fact that other DVD movies play ok points strongly in that direction. Now the only question is whether or not you have a faulty disk or if it's down to something like the protection causing problems. If it's the latter then probably there will be plenty of posts online from others having similar problems. Thank you, Rob! It probably is my DVD, since I couldn't find much through Google for this movie (except, as I mentioned to Paul, for the Blu-Ray version). Jo-Anne |
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"Rob Moir" wrote in message
... "Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. I have to agree with Paul - it's probably the DVD you're playing rather than your DVD player, if you see what I mean. The fact that other DVD movies play ok points strongly in that direction. Now the only question is whether or not you have a faulty disk or if it's down to something like the protection causing problems. If it's the latter then probably there will be plenty of posts online from others having similar problems. Thank you, Rob! It probably is my DVD, since I couldn't find much through Google for this movie (except, as I mentioned to Paul, for the Blu-Ray version). Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul Thank you, Paul! I'll check out Nero DiscSpeed. I just Googled the movie and couldn't find anything about the regular DVD, although there seemed to be problems with the Blu-Ray version (not what I have). One person at Amazon complained that two out of four discs in a DVD set that included my movie stuttered but didn't specify this one. Mine came as one of four movies in a different set; I guess I'd better play the others soon to determine if they're OK. One other question, probably off-topic: Do there tend to be more quality issues in sets of unrelated DVD movies than in singles? The other movies I've played so far have been singles. Thank you again! Jo-Anne I think I'd be a tiny bit concerned where these discs were coming from. Are they legit ? Or are they counterfeits from China ? If the price was too low, that might be a sign they've been pressed in somebody's basement. You probably wouldn't have to look too hard, to find stories like this. http://cathe.com/homeland-security-s...gal-cathe-dvds Paul |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul Thank you, Paul! I'll check out Nero DiscSpeed. I just Googled the movie and couldn't find anything about the regular DVD, although there seemed to be problems with the Blu-Ray version (not what I have). One person at Amazon complained that two out of four discs in a DVD set that included my movie stuttered but didn't specify this one. Mine came as one of four movies in a different set; I guess I'd better play the others soon to determine if they're OK. One other question, probably off-topic: Do there tend to be more quality issues in sets of unrelated DVD movies than in singles? The other movies I've played so far have been singles. Thank you again! Jo-Anne I think I'd be a tiny bit concerned where these discs were coming from. Are they legit ? Or are they counterfeits from China ? If the price was too low, that might be a sign they've been pressed in somebody's basement. You probably wouldn't have to look too hard, to find stories like this. http://cathe.com/homeland-security-s...gal-cathe-dvds Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul Thank you, Paul! I'll check out Nero DiscSpeed. I just Googled the movie and couldn't find anything about the regular DVD, although there seemed to be problems with the Blu-Ray version (not what I have). One person at Amazon complained that two out of four discs in a DVD set that included my movie stuttered but didn't specify this one. Mine came as one of four movies in a different set; I guess I'd better play the others soon to determine if they're OK. One other question, probably off-topic: Do there tend to be more quality issues in sets of unrelated DVD movies than in singles? The other movies I've played so far have been singles. Thank you again! Jo-Anne I think I'd be a tiny bit concerned where these discs were coming from. Are they legit ? Or are they counterfeits from China ? If the price was too low, that might be a sign they've been pressed in somebody's basement. You probably wouldn't have to look too hard, to find stories like this. http://cathe.com/homeland-security-s...gal-cathe-dvds Paul Hi, again, Paul, I bought this set from a legitimate remainder company, Hamilton Books. It wasn't all that cheap, although it was substantially less than the original retail price, as is the case for remainders in general. Hamilton has been around for a lotta years, and I've bought from them regularly without problems. Daedalus Books & Music, another remainder company I buy from, shows the same set as being remaindered at a slightly higher price than Hamilton's. I downloaded and installed Nero DiscSpeed and am now trying to figure out how to use it. Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne Have you Googled the name of the movie title, to see what protection methods might have been applied to it ? They're always inventing new and evil means of protecting content, and perhaps that is what you've run into. (For example, it may play smooth in a real DVD player connected to your TV, but stutter when played back on a PC.) It could also be a problem with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Programs like this one, can be used to scan the sectors of the media and indicate whether there are problems reading the media. "Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0" http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_DiscSpeed_d118.html There is also a disc quality scan option, that looks a bit like this. If the graph goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of errors, that might make the media stutter in the drive. http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/...ed-quality.jpg You can use an approach like that, to test the disc. You would compare the results, to some other, smoothly working DVD, to prove it isn't the DVD drive itself. But I really recommend Googling the title of the movie itself, because there may be many disgruntled buyers of the movie title already, who have figured this out for you. Paul Thank you, Paul! I'll check out Nero DiscSpeed. I just Googled the movie and couldn't find anything about the regular DVD, although there seemed to be problems with the Blu-Ray version (not what I have). One person at Amazon complained that two out of four discs in a DVD set that included my movie stuttered but didn't specify this one. Mine came as one of four movies in a different set; I guess I'd better play the others soon to determine if they're OK. One other question, probably off-topic: Do there tend to be more quality issues in sets of unrelated DVD movies than in singles? The other movies I've played so far have been singles. Thank you again! Jo-Anne I think I'd be a tiny bit concerned where these discs were coming from. Are they legit ? Or are they counterfeits from China ? If the price was too low, that might be a sign they've been pressed in somebody's basement. You probably wouldn't have to look too hard, to find stories like this. http://cathe.com/homeland-security-s...gal-cathe-dvds Paul Hi, again, Paul, I bought this set from a legitimate remainder company, Hamilton Books. It wasn't all that cheap, although it was substantially less than the original retail price, as is the case for remainders in general. Hamilton has been around for a lotta years, and I've bought from them regularly without problems. Daedalus Books & Music, another remainder company I buy from, shows the same set as being remaindered at a slightly higher price than Hamilton's. I downloaded and installed Nero DiscSpeed and am now trying to figure out how to use it. Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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I've read the other replies but thought I'd throw this at ya also ...
When I encounter a "bad" cd-dvd one of the first things I do is attempt to make a copy of the disk. This can be problamatic with copyrighted disks but it can be more or less easily done. For example, if it's a music disk try to rip the songs of it. If it's a dvd movie, copy it using something like DVD Shrink. If it's a straight data cd-dvd copy the files to your hard disk. Then try and create a new disk from the above and see if that works better. Or use a product that creates an image of the disk then mount that image in a virtual drive see if that works. "Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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I've read the other replies but thought I'd throw this at ya also ... When I encounter a "bad" cd-dvd one of the first things I do is attempt to make a copy of the disk. This can be problamatic with copyrighted disks but it can be more or less easily done. For example, if it's a music disk try to rip the songs of it. If it's a dvd movie, copy it using something like DVD Shrink. If it's a straight data cd-dvd copy the files to your hard disk. Then try and create a new disk from the above and see if that works better. Or use a product that creates an image of the disk then mount that image in a virtual drive see if that works. "Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... I've begun playing DVD movies on my WinXP laptop with VLC Media Player. Today, a brand new DVD kept "stuttering" all the way through. That is, both video and sound would completely stop and then, after a few seconds, resume. I thought the DVD was bad--but I played it on my WinXP desktop computer with the same media player, and it seemed to run mostly OK (although there were some places where I sensed very slight hesitations). Could it be a marginal DVD? And if so, is there a way of making it work better? (It's a DVD I bought a couple months ago, so I'm not sure I can return it.) I've played a few other DVD movies on the laptop without any stuttering. Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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