Video Asylum

Posted by snkby (i) on May 03, 2001 at 02:21:28

i recieved as a gift an un-opened creative labs pc-dvd 5x drive with a dxr3 decoder card.

os is win98se/128mb pc100ram/sb16 audiocard/stb velocity128 agp videocard/ms-1569mobo/amd k6-2 300 cpu.

out of 8 dvd movies we were able to watch just 3 !

the other 5 movies would all start and within 5sec-90sec would just stop outputting video to the toshiba tv or the pc monitor but still ouputting audio to the tv.

the other 3 movies would play just fine no matter where you started/paused/ff/rw.

tried cleaning the 5 dvd's even though they looked clean anyway and it made no difference at all.

makes no difference whether pc-dvd goes through the vcr or direct to the tv.

was about to do a re-install but then tried one of the movies that was ok and everything was fine.

tried any of the other movies that didnt play and they still didnt play so i decided to not do the re-install.

i am stymied.

movies that play -->baby mozart child educational movie/seven samurai/puppetoon movie tribute to george pal

movies that dont play -->elizabeth/dr. strangelove/to kill a mockingbird/young frankenstein/raging bull

nothing on the computer has changed since the initial installation.

anyone have any ideas ?

ive already exhausted the troubleshooting faq's at creative and in the manual and on-screen.

thanks for any help.