Hey guys. When ever i try to play a DVD on my PC the sound is really distorted and choppy :mad: It used to be good, and ive tried windows media player 10, PowerDVD and WinDVD! does anyone know how to fix this? Ive got XP SP1

So this only happens with DVD and not CDAudio ,do you have onboard sound or a PCI sound card .

i have an onboard soundcard and CD's are fine! it used to work perfectly

Doesent make sence ,,
A CD music disk works ok in the DVD drive and a DVD disk doesn't !! To me its either a Dirty DvD disk or the DVD playing Software ,try Uninstall And Reinstalling the sortware maybe !

thx for trying but unfortunatley you are wrong . I have tried many DVD's (all work on proper players!) and tried/unistalled every software around!

not the first time I was wrong !

i have had thsi problem before never fixed it mind u but firstly

dvd player home ones dfnt have as good lense as dvd players they miss scratches were dvd roms dnt so that myte be your problem or as caperjack has mentioned try uninstaloing the products or checking there is later software

or check ur dvd rok has been instaled properly uninstall it from device manager and then reboot ur pc and let it run through new harware found

hope this helps its worth a try

lol

@epsos
thx for the help. Im sure it has been properly installed though!

thats okay just thouhgt it was worth a try let everyone know how u went on

Actually, it does make some sense if you consider that CD audio and DVD audio are different formats, and within the DVD drive itself the encoding/decoding processes for each are even handled by different lasers.


marceta-

1. Have you tried entirely uninstalling the current drivers for the card and reinstalling drivers from scratch? Your currently-installed drivers may be corrupt. Download the most recent drivers for the sound card and use those if possible.

2. Just a thought, but is it possible that some other running programs/processes are interfering with the playback process? Due to its higher quality (higher bitrate and sample rate), DVD audio playback can be a bit more taxing on your system than CD audio playback. Shut down as many non-critical programs and background processes as possible and see if that makes a difference; your playback software might just need a bit more "breathing room" in terms of system resources.

3. Last but not least, unfortunately: your DVD drive could be failing.