600x no longer plays DVDs / videos

[trent488]

My 600x will no longer play DVDs. It plays the sound but the picture just sits there, and occasionally moves to a later still image.

It also won't play a lot of video files (avi, wmv, mp4) that previously played perfectly. They are slow and skip.

What happened is I reinstalled Windows XP SP3. Same hard drive, same DVD drive, same memory, same everything (hardware), same O/S. I don't remember what version of VLC media player I was using. I downloaded the newest one. I do know I was using using Windows Media Player 9. Neither of those is working right on a lot of my video files, and they both worked before (although WMP didn't play all file types - but that's normal).

I did a clean install of XP SP3 on my 600X, and then did all the critical updates from Windows Update. I then installed the following drivers: (display) vftprw2k, (xp-supp) wxpsfd1a (just CStateFlags.reg and monitor ->IBMTPLCD.INF), onscrenkx, (power-mgmt) 1xu105u1, (trackpoint) 78g405ww, (trackpoint-access) 1rg807ww, and (config-util) 7ju501aw. It has/had the latest bios. [The available hard-drive firmware update is not applicable.]

The only other software installed so far is Firefox, Avira Antivir, and Sunbelt firewall. I tried disabling the latter two - no improvement.

After I noticed the DVD/video problems I disabled some Windows services (which I had disabled before - but I don't think it was necessary for DVDs to play) using the "safe" settings at Blackviper.com list. No change.

Any suggestions?

600x w/384MB Ram; 2645-8eu; XP Pro SP3

[Neil]

I've also noticed that the newest version of VLC is much worse than the older one was on a 500MHz desktop. I can't use it. It's like a slide show, at best. I don't remember the number of the last version that worked well for me though.