DVD Playback problems on IMB X40

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Hi,

Okay, so I got this nifty new IBM X40. I bought the Ultrabase Dock and
the CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive.

When I try to play any DVD movies, the picture has a lot of "white
noise" , and there are these annoying stationary vertical magenta bars
all across the screen. (I tried several, and played the same DVDs in
other systems with no problems)

The particulars are:
Hardware:
IBM X40 Model 2386 6GU
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Model 73P3288 in the Ultrabase dock

Software:
Win XP Pro, SP2 fully updated.
InterVideo WinDVD player (Version: 5.0-B11.250, latest update from the
IBM website)

Has anyone else experienced this, or am I just that lucky?

Thanks in advance for any feedback, I'm pretty much a novice about DVDs
on a pc, but we just started traveling alot and it seemed a better idea
than a seperate laptop and DVD player....

Sincerly,
Brian

PS, if replying directly, remove the .nospam from the return address.

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Jerry Park wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Okay, so I got this nifty new IBM X40. I bought the Ultrabase Dock and
>> the CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive.
>>
>> When I try to play any DVD movies, the picture has a lot of "white
>> noise" , and there are these annoying stationary vertical magenta bars
>> all across the screen. (I tried several, and played the same DVDs in
>> other systems with no problems)
>>
>> The particulars are:
>> Hardware:
>> IBM X40 Model 2386 6GU
>> CD-RW/DVD-ROM Model 73P3288 in the Ultrabase dock
>>
>> Software:
>> Win XP Pro, SP2 fully updated.
>> InterVideo WinDVD player (Version: 5.0-B11.250, latest update from the
>> IBM website)
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this, or am I just that lucky?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback, I'm pretty much a novice about
>> DVDs on a pc, but we just started traveling alot and it seemed a
>> better idea than a seperate laptop and DVD player....
>>
>> Sincerly,
>> Brian
>>
>> PS, if replying directly, remove the .nospam from the return address.
>
>
> I generally use some other program because I often experience problems
> with WinDVD.
>
> One thing to check. In preferences, video tab, try unchecking 'Use
> Hardware Decode Acceleration' and 'Use Hardware Color Acceleration'. I
> know mine doesn't work well with Hardwire Decode Acceleration checked.

I will check this out- thanks