| 13 Jul 2006 12:08 pm |
Black Orchid Guest | Ok....seeing how I’m out of ideas, here’s one for you to tackle.
HP Pavilion ze2000 laptop, WinXP Home, DVDRW (Pioneer DVK-15).
The sound on the machine in general is fine. The audio when playing a DVD is chopped up like hamburger. I have tried 3 different DVDs.
I have;
1. Cleaned the junk out of Windows using CrapCleaner
2. Checked for spyware/virus activity
3. Uninstalled/reinstalled the DVD drive
4. Uninstalled/reinstalled the sound driver
5. Updated the sound driver from HP
6. Checked to see if 'DMA available...' was selected in Device Mangler
7. Run a repair via Recovery Console in XP
8. Run a repair install of XP
9. Consulted with HP, which was of little use, until they discovered the warranty was out (hey, I got an hour out of 'em).
10. Performed MS updates.
11. Tried both WinDVD and PowerDVD.
I contacted Pioneer and this was their response:
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Thank you for contacting Pioneer Electronics, Inc.
If the video playback is OK then it may a problem with the MPEG2 decoder being used [the DVD player software].
Can the MPEG2 decoder be reloaded?
Unfortunately Pioneer does not supply any MPEG2 decoders at all.
Can you obtain and install a different one?
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Thanks for any assistance.
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| 13 Jul 2006 12:39 pm |
Marcus Aurelius Guest | Try to install ffdshow and AC3.First look on this site downloads and also here:http://www.free-codecs.com/ MPEG2 decoder is included in Power DVD or WinDVD also NVidia has one but most of them are sharewares.
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| 20 Jan 2008 03:01 pm |
TimS Guest | I loaded the ac3 and ffdshow
<a href=“http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow”>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
</a>
and it solved my choppy sound issue. I had tried the xp codec pack to solve it but no change. I even had choppy sound when converting dvd’s to avi for play on mini devices.
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