Sound is jumpy when I play dvd's

[erocktattoo]

Yes, I did try that and it seems that sound isn't enabled in safre mode   

[Broni]

You may try lens cleaner, or try the drive on another computer, but I'm afraid, your drive is dying.
You can get brand new dual layer DVD RW for under $30, at newegg.

[Kurtiskain]

I can confirm that Nero is crap with it's codecs and player...

And I'm certain the codec lingers after uninstalling nero.

To check what codec you have installed, click start > run.
Type in dvdupgrd /detect
and a box will appear telling you what codec is currently powering your DVD playback. (i was shocked to find mine was nero! :O )

and here is a Microsoft app which lets you check your installed codecs and set defaults!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de1491ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en
Hope this helps!

Kurtis

[truenorth]

Kurtiskain, Don't know if others (including originator ) will try you "dvdupgrd/detect" test. But i have on 2 separate computers and the results were the same "no such file found" ?truenorth

[Kurtiskain]

Did you remember to put space in between dvdupgrd and /detect?

it should look exactly like this:

"dvdupgrd /detect"

(without quotes)

this works on Xp Pro for me ill screen shot it even...and attach them to this post

what were the OS of the computers you tried it on truenorth?

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[truenorth]

Kurtiskain,No.Thanks.truenorth

[Broni]

I can confirm, that dvdupgrd /detect works on my Vista....didn't try XP, though...

[Kurtiskain]

Hm well my screen shots confirm that it works in XP pro

Home I'm not too sure about, though it should work as I'm sure they would expect home users to use DVDs too.

I ran the MS link I posted too and realised it can be a pain to get MS genuine software, so ill attach it to this post (It's tiny)

The program told me my machine had no "preferred decoder"

But I set mine to PowerDvd anyway dvd performance went up considerably.

Hope this all helps

Kurtis

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[truenorth]

Kurtiskain, My apologies. I guess my last reply to your own post was too cryptic. The "No" was in reference to "did you remember to put space----". The answer to that was "NO".The "thanks" was for the pointing it out to me. Having done that i do get the readout from "run" as posted.
Broni, Am i correct to assume that your suggested input is to be typed into the "run" command? What will this action be doing? Thanks, guys, truenorth

[Broni]

Yes, into Run.

and a box will appear telling you what codec is currently powering your DVD playback