hi! there's this problem that's bothering me for quite some time, hope someone can maybe help me out...sometimes when i want to play dvd's on my pc where i have 5.1 speakers the playback is really bad, the sound is scratchy, the picture stutters..it's quite unbearable. this doesn't happen on all dvd's but on most of them, and when it does happen those exact same dvd's play perfectly on my dvd player that's not in the pc. i don't now why, sometimes brand new dvd's without a scratch on them simply play poorly on my pc, and perfectly on my dvd player. i even bought a new dvd burner i thought my first had done its work but the problem persists. is there something i can do? some drivers, some tweaking, anything? here are my specs: pentium 1.2 Ghz 512mb of ram xp pro sp2 radeon 7500 64mb of ram SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B - about 10 months old NEC DVD/RW ND-3520A - about 2 months old PowerDVD 6 i hope someone has any idea. any bit of help will be appreciated. thanks!!
Hi Try updating the firmware on your nec drive, i was having the same problem and it sorted it for me http://www.nec.com/cgi-bin/support/support.cgi?cat=download See if that helps
thanks a million mate!!! thank you!! it works like a charm now!! i was using 1.06 firmware, i think, and now i installed ver. 3 and it works smoothly! could you maybe point me to the page where i can update my samsung drive's firmware? who knows maybe it was the sam problem with it too. SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B
Hi Glad it worked out!!! Heres another link for modified firmware for your nec http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/ carried out at your own risk. Try looking around here for your samsung http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/support/b2c_support_index.jsp?eUser= Good Luck!!
nevermind i updated the samsung firmware as well and it works great!! i sure wish i found this forum and you earlier, i wouldn't have bought a new dvd for one thing. thanks again!
