DVD skipping, unable to view movies

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lynx6200

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I have a Dell laptop running win xp home, and I was trying to whatch DVD's on it. The dvd usualy starts up fine, will show the previews and such, but, at different times during the movie, or even going to the menu, the screen goes black, but the audio continues. Its like the dvd is still palying, but the picture has gone out. Please help.
 
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Hmmmmmmm

What software are you using? What player? It could have to do with the software player. DO all DVDs do that?

JAN :D
 
Im using Win DVD, came with the computer, and also used Intervideo, that installed off of one of the dvd's. All dvd's appear to do the same thing, going blank at certain parts. Ive also tryed using windows media player, but get the same results, so i dont think its the software. Checked some forums, help topics, that menioned checking the decoder and little things, but all of that seems to be intact. I know for a fact everything used to work not too long ago.

Oh yeah, I cleaned the dvd drive with a dvd kit thing, but no luck.
 
Is this with the laptop plugged into the mains? My Laptop sometimes lags on dvds when it is running on the battery. You could investigate possible conflicts by starting up in diagnostic mode and see if it lags. Then put everything back on the startup one by one. Your laptop maybe sharing a required rescource with another service/application.
Worth a try!
 
Okay, it appears that I can actualy whatch the dvd's if I start the dvd with auto play, and fast forward, skip chapter (when avaliable), to the the menu or sceen I want. Thats the only way I can get to the menu though, very annoying. If I just select menu, from the options, it loads the menu and goes blank, as described above. I can't figure what to make of this or what would be causing the problem. If anyone has some ideas, please let me know
 
Of course you are running the movie while the DVD disc itself is inside the DVD-ROM device. What you might be experiencing could be simply a bad DVD disc that work normally and skips at a certain moment. Do all the DVDs you try do the same thing?? Are they original DVD discs or copied ones??

Do you experience the same thing while watching a movie or a video clip running from your notebook hard disk ?
 
Hmmmmmmmm

Oh well...could be your graphics card. Do you have the option to change it to try a different one out? It could possibly be a dying dvd drive. I hope it;s not. Good luck man ;)

JAN :D
 
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