Solution: CD - RW / DVD Rom stutters or has choppy playback

My computer specs

Labtop model: Dell Inspiron 5150

DVD ROM: Samsung CDRW / DVD SN - 324B

Problem

After reformatting my hard drive, my DVD-Rom is more play DVD smoothly. I had the playback choppy or stuttering. I use Intervideo WinDVD. Thinking that WinDVD could be the problem I went to Windows Media Player 10, but instead of reading who stutters, the film played too fast.

The reading was also weird, if I rebooted my computer and used WinDVD immediately, he would run smoothly, but eventually he would return to stuttering. Due to the eccentricity of this work and does not, it was difficult to identify a solution that has worked permanently (this is also the reason why I had edited this post so many times). So, I've listed all of my conclusions and solutions below.

Solutions

Difficulty 1

Download the last update of the BIOS from Dell downloads.

Here are the direct links for the Dell Inspiron 5150, I posted the update of WinDVD so. Since April 18. 2008:

Update to the BIOS: ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/I5150A38.exe

Update of WinDVD: ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/app/R62171.EXE

I guess this would work with the other laptop Dell with their respective BIOS updates.

My results: Windows Media Player was playing much too fast, this corrects the problem DVD. However, regarding the choppy playback, I still had some problems.

Difficulty 2

Change your power settings.

  1. Open Control Panel
  2. Double-click Power Options
  3. Under the systems tab, select laptop

My results: Combined with the update of the A38 BIOS, it seems to work ok.

Difficulty 3

It is recommended to make your IDE controllers are in DMA not PIO mode.

Here is a useful link on the Dell Forum, he speaks of the PIO to DMA:

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.ID=dim_cdrom&message.ID=144385&query.ID=285841#M144385

PIO DMA another link:

http://winhlp.com/node/10

My results: System has already been set to Ultra DMA Mode 2, so this fix did not work for me.

Level 4:

During choppy playback, I fiddled with the settings of DVD players and was able to play the DVD without problem.

For Intervideo WinDVD:

  1. Right click on the area of the screen, select Setup
  2. On the Video tab, uncheck the "Use hardware decode acceleration" and uncheck the box "use acceleration hardware color."

I don't remember the exact settings uncheck Windows Media Player 10. But if you want to try this solution with this drive, I can point you in the right direction.

  1. Go to tools > Options
  2. Then click on the performance tab
  3. Under video acceleration, tap Advanced Options

There are options for the video acceleration and DVD video below. "Use Video Mixing Renderer", might be what I unchecked, you'll have to fiddle around for yourself.

My results: Best solution for me, never had a problem since. I use Intervideo WinDVD. The colours become slightly darker; I think they look better. (Note: I installed the new BIOS before that)

Message edited by jabberwocky2k on 03/05/2008 12:34 AM

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