Please Help Video terrible on new PC

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Stevethesearcher

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Hello,

This is my first post here. I have just bought a new Laptop running Windows 7 premium.

The DVDs that I have played back are terrible quality. They are grainy and text is jagged.

Although my new Laptop is a budget Model Samsung R530 to be precise I expect much better video playback.

My old Laptop(2004) with a 30 gig hard drive and only 512 of Ram played back these same DVDs perfectly.

I have been reading that other people have experienced problems like this in far more powerful machines than I am running.

I dont think its the Laptop or a driver issue as its such a new Laptop(I only bought it last week)

Any advice for me would be most gratefully received.

Thanks Steve
 
deanj20 said:
I think the problem is with Windows Media Player. Have you tried another media player? I prefer VLC - you can download it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

I would download and install VLC and try watching a DVD - even if you want to continue using WMP, at least this way we can see if it's a hardware or software problem.
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Hi Dean,

Thanks for your reply. Yes I downloaded VLC but the quality was the same. However I think you are on the right track.

I read something about disabling Video Accelerators in both the Media Player and also in Windows 7.

The sense I am getting is that Windows 7 can screw up DVD playback under certain conditions. There was also mention of something called FDDSHOW but I could be spelling that wrong.

What do you think?
 
I'm not sure...

What is your CPU usage when playing a DVD? (ctrl+alt+delete while playing DVD) - maybe we need to disable extra processes running in the background sucking on your memory?

Is all video choppy or just from the DVD? Download a free video if you're not sure, as we want something playing from your harddrive rather than from the web to test.

I read an article about how Windows 7 is supposed to use less battery power when watching a video - you might look at your Power Options in Control Panel as well as your Display settings and make sure everything is running full throttle...

I'm not sure what else to tell you, as I don't have a Windows 7 Machine to test on - just XP... I'm sure someone will be along to help more if my advice doesn't help... post back and let me know - we'll figure something out... :P
 
deanj20 said:
I'm not sure...

What is your CPU usage when playing a DVD? (ctrl+alt+delete while playing DVD) - maybe we need to disable extra processes running in the background sucking on your memory?

Is all video choppy or just from the DVD? Download a free video if you're not sure, as we want something playing from your harddrive rather than from the web to test.

I read an article about how Windows 7 is supposed to use less battery power when watching a video - you might look at your Power Options in Control Panel as well as your Display settings and make sure everything is running full throttle...

I'm not sure what else to tell you, as I don't have a Windows 7 Machine to test on - just XP... I'm sure someone will be along to help more if my advice doesn't help... post back and let me know - we'll figure something out... :P
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Hi Dean

Thanks for getting back to me. I am actually a XP guy myself running Sonar and Reason running XP on my main Laptop which stays offline as thats my music Pc.

Windows 7 is new to me and I dont know anything about video and Graphics card as its audio I concentrate on.

Anyways I will post again to let you know how things went. Better get to bed now as its 3.08 in the morning. Just wish I can get this sorted out. Thanks for your help.
 
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