* [email]phil@croftonstorage.co.uk[/email]:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I hope you can help. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, which has an AMD
> Turion 64 Processor and 1GB Ram, running Windows Vista Home Basic. The
> machine is about 1 month old and has all the latest patches appleid
> via windows update.
>
> When I playback DVDs using WinDVD that shipped with the laptop, the
> playback is intermittantly frozen, whilst the sounds often continues.
> Often, after a few seconds, the video catches up by playing the
> missing video in a sort of high speed, fast-forward mode, until the
> video and sound catch up. At times, even the sound freezes, and the PC
> struggles to respond to mouse clicks like the processor is being
> hammered. The interruptions occur about every 20-30 seconds.
>
> I have also installed BBC iPlayer (had to do a little registry hack to
> get it to play before you ask about Vista support, but it seems okay -
> DVD skipped prior to iPlayer install), and this has exactly the same
> problem.
>
> I have tried to improve it by turning off wireless networking, Anti-
> virus (AVG Free), Windows Defender etc, it still doesn't improve. I
> don't have much other software installed.
>
> I have also installed the latest Video Drivers for the ATI card that
> is installed.[/color]

Have you installed all updates? Especially, these two?

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194[/url]
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649[/url]

Also, you could trying using the free GOM Player and
see how it does. [url]http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html[/url]

R. McCarty's reply is good information, too.


-Michael