Best DVD Player for a T21

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Thomcat · #1 Post by **Thomcat** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 1:59 pm

I installed PowerDVD5 and it runs OK for about 10 minutes and then performance starts to degrade. Audio and video will start to jump and skip.

What's the best DVD software to use on a Thinkpad T21?

ian · #2 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 2:10 pm

Firstly, how much RAM do you have installed?

akhavan · #3 Post by **akhavan** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:16 am

I'm using PowerDVD5 with my T41P with no problem but I have 1.5MB RAM. I do not know if that will make a difference.
Sepehr

lilserenity · #4 Post by **lilserenity** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:17 am

I found PowerDVD 4 XP worked great on my T21 when I had it. Still use it on my T23. The T21 was Windows XP Pro, PIII-800MHz, and 192MB.

Vicky[/b]

Thomcat · #5 Post by **Thomcat** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:21 am

I have 256mb of ram. That's why I find it odd. My old 600e and 570e played DVDs just fine with PowerDVD4. Of course now I can't find my PowerDVD4 disc to compare. I figured before I purchase another dvd program, I'd ask everyone's opinion on which one to get.

hausman · #6 Post by **hausman** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:57 am

Thomcat wrote:before I purchase another dvd program, I'd ask everyone's opinion on which one to get.

Try VLC Media Player. It'll play anything you feed it and best of all, it's free. http://www.videolan.org/

edelrc · #7 Post by **edelrc** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:01 am

On my ThinkPad A20p (750Mhz, 16MBVideo, 256MB RAM) I never had problems with PowerDVD4.
However with PowerDVD5 the system works much slower if you use a new feacture that the newer version come with. This is the CLPV (smart stretch).

Another time I had a similar problem too, as you descrived. It was that always after 3/4 of a movie, this starter to skip frequently, and sometimes avoided to run! It hapen with any DVD disk. Then I discovered that the DVD lens was just dusty and somehow it afected the last 1/4 of a DVD (angle issue?). I just brussed the lens very carefully and never had the problem again.

cf_lily · #8 Post by **cf_lily** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:39 pm

Power DVD 5 works perfectly in my Thinkpad T20, which is Winxp Pro, and 128 RAM, P3-650, SIS 8m video card. Of course my DVD-Rom is 8x HITACHI DVD-ROM.

matty · #9 Post by **matty** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:40 pm

I would check the disc and the lens. I used Win DVD platinum on my T20. I had skips at one point and I thought it was due to performance, but I looked at the DVD, and there were scratches everwhere!

asiafish · #10 Post by **asiafish** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:35 pm

works great on my T22.

rhobite · #11 Post by **rhobite** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:34 am

PowerDVD worked great with my T20. Any P3 should be capable of playing DVD's. If you're getting slowdowns you may have some sort of software conflict.

Eh just realized this thread is like 6 months old. Sorry.

arion · #12 Post by **arion** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:12 am

PowerDVD 6 works great but I would prefer VLC (Video LAN Client) but for PowerDVD has better audio support until VLC looks at the patents for DTS and re-enables DTS support.

Patents are just evil.

VLC does everything I use it to play almost all media (I use WinAMP for mp3). It allows me to stream ouput from DreamBox (Linux based Satelite/Terestrial Set Top Box) to my laptop over the network the quality is unreal. I use it for DVDs (much faster than PowerDVD and can skip those bloody ads/warnings). It rocks at plays Xvid, Divx, Quicktime, Real, and way more.

VLC is open source.

I have had software based DVD playback runing smooth on a Pentium 233 with a lot of work but Pentium II 266 and above should never have playback problems becuase of performance issues.

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