[DarkAurora]

Whenever I play DVDs in Media Player Classic, they always skip. I'm thinking it might be the crappy sound card I'm running at the moment (Sound Blaster PCI) but I have a fast computer, so that should make up for it.

Windows XP Pro
Athlon XP2600+
512MB RAM
GeForce 5600 256MB

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[kof2k]

maybe your dvd drive needs to be cleaned, or try using another media to see if you get the same problem. Try videolan or window media player 10.

 

[DB7]

To be honest while Media Player Classic is graet for most stuff it is poor at DVD playback.

Media Player 10 does a better job but if you can afford to buy a player, I'd go with PowerDVD, which I've been using for years with no problems.

 

[Snake785]

Whenever I play DVDs in Media Player Classic, they always skip. I'm thinking it might be the crappy sound card I'm running at the moment (Sound Blaster PCI) but I have a fast computer, so that should make up for it.

Windows XP Pro
Athlon XP2600+
512MB RAM
GeForce 5600 256MB

Any help would be appreciated.

Maybe you have a renderer/codec selected that requires a lot of power. Use either the Overlay Mixer or VMR7 (windowed). I use VMR7 (windowed) on my machine (which is kinda close in terms of power) and I get no problems at all. Oh and if you use ffdshow, make sure you have too many filters (like postprocessing) enabled as that can slow things down as well. I hope that helps.

 

[DarkAurora]

Thank you so much Snake 785! When you mentioned VMR7, I noticed in the options that I had to set it to VMR7 Renderless to get the new pixel shader option to work and now my DVDs run flawless. Thanks so much.

Edit: They even look better now too.

 

[Snake785]

No problem. Glad I could help