Can I play a DVD with a 866 MHz PC?

[CrownedBird]

Dear members of this board,
My PC has Windows XP and a 866 MHz processor. When I play a DVD, the playback is moving in a jolting manner. Does this have anything to do with my processor. Or does I have to extend the RAM? What is the minimum I need for an ecellent playback of a DVD?

Thanks in advance for Your assistance!

Best regards

George

 

[IBMan]

easily, my dad has a pentium 2 400 mhz with 128 meg ram, windows 98 first edition, plays dvds perfectly fine

 

[daappleby]

Is the DVD scrathed? Try a new one and see if it has the same issue. Also try to update the dvd player software, could be a bug. Lastly it could be the video card is not able to handle it. What is your vid card?

 

[CrownedBird]

Dear daappleby,

no DVD is working! My videocard is a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model64Pro.

Thanks in advance for Your kind asistance.

My best regards

George

 

[daappleby]

what program does the movie play in?

 

[CrownedBird]

normal DVD with 625 lines PAL

 

[CrownedBird]

The DVD Player is a Samsung DVD-ROM SD612-F

 

[CrownedBird]

ok, I will try to update the DVD Player software tomorrow, and I will keep You informed concerning the results

My best regards to You

George

 

[daappleby]

there must be an application that opens to play the dvd. What program is that? There may be a patch or bug fix. Try going here and see if your program is in the list, or download the media center and see if that fixes it.

 

[SHAWN]

How much RAM is in that PC? You probably need a better video card