MICHAEL wrote:[color=blue]
> * [email]phil@croftonstorage.co.uk[/email]:[color=green]
>> 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[/color]


Have we turned of indexing - in the hard drive properties there is a
checkbox, try unchecking that and see if it helps. You might also turn
of indexing via that the "Search" properties but the drive issue was one
huge problem for me.

Does the HDD light keep flashing? If it's on the same Bus as the DVD,
and I don't know the answer to that but "If" then that will disrupt
reading of the DVD