Help!!! I have a toshiba dvd drive for my nec laptop and it plays but it is choppy. I was wondering what I can do to make it smooth. I did try another dvd drive and it does the same thing. It does say that a decoder may be nessecary and I have the vlc media player. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Sound like a performance problem. Did you try updating your video and sound drivers?
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You can try using another media player.If that does'nt work ,your DVD drive may be bad or need cleaning.Sometimes a bad ram chip can cause the video to mess up.Try playing a movie directly from your HDD downloaded from a website and see if its choppy if its not then its your DVD drive.If it is still choppy it could be the media player your using or it does'nt have enough ram memory/virtual memory.If you have XP change your virtual memory settings and the refresh rate in task manager.(Bring up task manager,go to view tab then update speed to HIGH).

its not a error, your computer is just slow, try using vlc media player to play a dvd and tell me if it plays better

it's probably the codec you're using. divx works nicely.

chasmodem, did u try with other software to play the DVD? Sound like a Cyberlink PowerDVD problem to me.

HI,
You need to uninstall the device driver for you IDE controller and then let windows to a hardware detect and reinstall. I have had this problem before with my compaq laptop and the pioneer K15 DVD drive.

Well try the following steps:

1. reinstall the video driver from the support site.
2. remove the primery and secondry channels from the device manager and than restart the system.
3. remove the drivers for the dvd drive from the device manager as well and restart the system
4. try playing with different softwares.

don't use Windows media player, Try a different one, like POWER DVD or WINDVD I have found playback on these to be better than WMP

Have you tried viewing in a different software, as i found that acer use a form of Power DVD as their standard movie player which comes installed with the system. Try viewing in media player for example.