unable to use the software DVD player (6.x Region 2) from ATI Multimedia Centre

[George's Dragon]

I'm unable to use the DVD software player (version 6.x Region 2) from the ATI Multimedia Center. I get as far as playing up to 5 sec. worth of DVD movie before it locks up my system entirely. Have to press "reset" in order to recover, followed by scandisk. Have loaded the so-called updates for the graphics drivers from the ATI website. Same problem is still there! Have tried uninstalling the ATI software DVD player completely, then used Xingplayer 2.0.5 - varying drgrees of success (..is fussy about the DVD's used. used a DVD film review DVD disc). Tried Power DVD Player 2.0 seemed to solve the player problem. Again the program is fussy about what DVD's it plays. Occasionally get a repetative sound effect during the middle of the movie playback...then the PC was running for well over 10 hours! May try using another DVD movie disc. Will ATI get their finger out and try and sort this out!
Anyone out there, please give me some constructive assistance.

System Profile:
AMD 1.2 GHz Athlon "Thunderbird"
Giga-Byte GA-7ZXR Motherboard
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32Mb AGP
256Mb PC133 RAM
Quantum Fireball 40Gb UDMA66 HDD
LG DRD-8120B DVD-ROM Drive
Has two additional case cooling fans installed.
O/S : Windows 98 Second Edition

Regards

George's Dragon (UK)

[mogul218]

I believe this is an issue with your UDMA. I've had the same issue with the ATI software. You need to turn the DMA off on your DVD ROM Drive. Right click on My Computer and go to your device manager. Find your DVD ROM drive under CD ROMS and right click on it and choose properties. Uncheck the DMA box and restart. This should solve your problem. Good luck!

[George's Dragon]

Originally posted by George's Dragon:
I'm unable to use the DVD software player (version 6.x Region 2) from the ATI Multimedia Center. I get as far as playing up to 5 sec. worth of DVD movie before it locks up my system entirely. Have to press "reset" in order to recover, followed by scandisk. Have loaded the so-called updates for the graphics drivers from the ATI website. Same problem is still there! Have tried uninstalling the ATI software DVD player completely, then used Xingplayer 2.0.5 - varying drgrees of success (..is fussy about the DVD's used. used a DVD film review DVD disc). Tried Power DVD Player 2.0 seemed to solve the player problem. Again the program is fussy about what DVD's it plays. Occasionally get a repetative sound effect during the middle of the movie playback...then the PC was running for well over 10 hours! May try using another DVD movie disc. Will ATI get their finger out and try and sort this out!
Anyone out there, please give me some constructive ***istance.

System Profile:
AMD 1.2 GHz Athlon "Thunderbird"
Giga-Byte GA-7ZXR Motherboard
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32Mb AGP
256Mb PC133 RAM
Quantum Fireball 40Gb UDMA66 HDD
LG DRD-8120B DVD-ROM Drive
Has two additional case cooling fans installed.
O/S : Windows 98 Second Edition

Regards

George's Dragon (UK)


Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately this didn't work. I've even tried playing out the DMA combinations. After a lot of constant surfing around to various web forums and visiting the ATI website I was able to download the latest drivers and the upgrade to Multimedia Center 7.x as well as the latest software DVD Player v.4

After implicitly following ATI's instructions...the DVD still locks up!

Looking at other software DVD players and their readme files...data suggested that there are at times possible conflicts between the soundcard and the graphics card drivers. Even though ther were no obvious clues in the device manager.

In the end I loaded up the latest ATI drivers, Directx v.8, then proceeded to delete the soundblaster PCI 128 soundcard drivers, rebooted the system and reloaded the soundcard drivers as supplied by my motherboard...(ref. Creative CT5880 sound chip). I retried the ATI software DVD player ...SUCCESS!

I tried out the Xing DVD Player...SUCCESS!

Only the Power DVD Player was still being stubborn and very fussy in playing DVD's. It was still giving a repetative sound effect intermittently. Well, two out of three isn't that bad !

Thanks for being a little patient.

Regards

George's Dragon (UK)