wierd dvd issue

Dave85 · 13 Jul 2007 at 02:08

Power DVD 7 stops every 7-8 mins for 30 seconds then plays as normal for hours. This happens no matter what drive I watch a movie from, be it mounted or an actual dvd. differing partitions on different hard drives.

im on vista and its done this for months. reinstalled even after formats. any ideas as to what it could be would be great. im so far thinking some sort vista issue with caching or ram usage.

.walls · 13 Jul 2007 at 08:31

check if the dvd device is running in DMA or PIO mode.

Dave85 · 14 Jul 2007 at 00:48

right there all using ultra dma 5 and some using ultra dma 2. its always 7 mins and it's driving me insane lol

-Nick- · 14 Jul 2007 at 01:16

DAvE18 said:
right there all using ultra dma 5 and some using ultra dma 2. its always 7 mins and it's driving me insane lol

i guess you're doomed to short films

Dave85 · 14 Jul 2007 at 01:29

lol its wierd though, it freezes bang on 7 mins and then after 1 min keeps playing and as long as I dont close it could play 4 dvds in a row

bledd · 14 Jul 2007 at 01:32

does it do this with media player classic ?

Dave85 · 14 Jul 2007 at 12:51

Just tried it, nope so looks as though its a specific issue with powerdvd damn. going to email there "support"