DVD Playback choppy on X40 -- anyone have the same problem?

[tbessie]

I was playing back a DVD on my X40 (1.2Ghz) (while it was in the dock), using the Intervideo software that came with it. The playback was pretty choppy, basically running smoothly for half a second, a tiny halt, running smoothly, etc.

I've got a firewall up that's constantly writing a log, but I wouldn't think that hard disk accessing would be causing this (I'll have to experiment).

It was running off battery at the time, but I don't turn down the processor speed on battery.

Any idea what might be causing it to be playing video at anything but perfect smoothness?

- Tim

[csv96]

So on AC power, the playback is smooth? Then it sounds like power management is slowing things down too much.

[budder]

Have you tried ripping the DVD then playing it?

[pat]

I found changing programs helped

[tbessie]

1) Why would ripping then playing it back help? Or are you just trying to isolate the problem (eg. is playback being choppy because of a process, the video itself, or the drive)?

2) I haven't tried it on AC power, but I shall

3) So you find WinDVD 5.0 not very good? I bought a copy of PowerDVD... think that ought to work better?

- Tim

[pat]

powerdvd worked great for me

[sktn77a]

Should work just fine. CTRL/ALT/DEL and look at "performance" to see if you're running at 100% CPU utilization (usually the problem). Then look at processes to see what's hogging the CPU resource.

[budder]

Yeah, I was.

I tried to play a DVD for teh first time on my last flight and I was saddened to find that WMP wouldn't play it. So on to WinAmp. No good either.


Fortunately, I had MPC installed, but it was scary for a second. Speaking of which, time to finish The 5th Element...