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This is a really strange problem, but I bet it has a simple solution...

I have a DVD player. It's made by KBT. It crap, but it was cheap.

In the start, I never had problems. I watched about 5-10 movies.
Then it started...
During movie...first it starts skipping frames, then it starts to stutter. Then it skips bigger parts, and finally it freezes and a message comes up, saying that it cant read from the DVD and I should see if its scratched.
From then on, it does the same with every DVD.

After I formated by Hard Drive, the DVD works perfect. I can watch about 2 movies, until it screws up again.
Out of coincidence, I have formatted my comp 3 times so far, and every time the same. It works for 1-3 movies, and then no more.

Today I rented Spiderman. This is my 2nd DVD since format. Half way through, it stutters and stops. I skip to the next section of the movie, and it works for 15 minutes untill it does the same thing again. I then skipped another 5 minutes, and it worked for the rest of the movie, but with constant little frame skips.
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Its a cheap player, but I ruled out the cause being the DVD player, because it plays DVD's sometimes flawlessly.
I have the feeling I have some sort of Hardware configuration wrong. Maybe in windows, or in BIOS.
Anyone have ANY idea? Even a guess could help me...

Just for info I have:

7AJA-100 Chaintech Motherboard
GF 2 MX 400 64MB
Seagate 20.4 GB hard drive.
My DVD player is a 16x. And its running on MASTER now.
 

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Try another DVD player program.

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Well, i thought of that too. I am using Power DVD now. And with my last DVD I got "Interactual Player"...
Thing is, I tink they both use the same decoder files, so if 1 doesnt work, the other also wont.
I'm trying to get WIN DVD, since it has its own decoding files.

Could it be something else though?
 

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Have you run a CD/DVD drive cleaner? (Just to be sure)

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If all else fails, consider this piece of advice.

Liteon 16x dvd drive. Cheap but definately not crappy.

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Who knows... maybe a hair got taken in with a disc. Its another thing u can try to problem solve anyway.

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Hmm...it works normal on everthing else. Normal CD's and DVD's...just movies are messed up. I'll go with the idea of trying a different DVD-player program for now.
 

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get the liteon 163 dvd-rom

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Another one of LO minions votes for you to trash you old drive in a creative (explosive) way and get a Lite On.

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If you do get a new drive stay away from Sony. I find mine noisy and it has a really slow access time.

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There is a small chance that I could sell my DVD player.
OK, so I wont get Sony...there is the Pioneer 117 16x/40x and the Toshiba 16x/48x in my price range.
Any use, or will I end up selling it off and getting anoter one again..?

EDIT..!! My dvd playe is not from KBT, like I said in the beginning on this thread, but its from BTC...
 

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Have i suggested Liteon yet? :smile:
Nice AND cheap. Good too, faster than the pioneer!

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