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| Yesterday when my daughter tried to play a dvd the sound and video were all jerky, I know it was working ok up to about 2 weeks ago, and as far as I know i have not changed any settings. One thing I did notice was that there was an icon for ffdshow on the far right of the taskbar, I do not remember installing this and it would not allow me to close it, and I couldnt find it to uninstall the programme. When i now put a disc in the drive the listing under my computer just stays as DVD-RW Drive (D whereas it used to change to show what disc was in there and I cannot get the drive to auto play at all, even to get audio cd's to play i have to clock on the drive in my computer and click on the track I want to play. Any help and suggestions appreciated.
I am running xp home sp2 on an evesham xp1800 pc with 768Mb ram and the drive is a TSST corp TS-H552U DVD-RW. I have followed the troubleshooting guide, I have run nero drive test, I have uninstalled and re-installed the device but it is still the same.
I can play video that is on my hard drive with no problems.
I have recently installed the codec pack from here, could this cause any problems? If so how do i uninstall it | |
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| If you've run a Windows tweak application recently then you may find that its caused that, some change DVD drive speeds during playback and also block the auto play feature for DVD and CD media.
My codec packs never make such system changes, some others do though.
ffdshow is part of my codec packs and is only used for MPEG2/AC3/DVD if you changed the options for the formats its used with, for example you may have selected everything during the part of the installation shown in the images attached (A lot of people assume the options are for all codecs rather than reading the top).
That only applies to the Advanced pack though.
I'd suggest uninstalling my codec pack if you feel you may have set some options incorrectly, then restart and install the newest one with the default options left as they are.
Hope that helps.
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| Thanks for the reply. Firstly how do I go about uninstalling your codec pack, just in cas ethis is one of the things I try? The reg file has made no difference but could that be because the drive is not reading the disc correctly, as I said the description under my computer no longer changes to that of the disc as it always did before. Any idea what tweak apps cause this type of problem, I havn't installed any but my daughter might have, also she has been watching and possibly downloading lots of video clips from the web recently. | |
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| Is that the same DVD drive you had trouble with before?
PS. uninstalling the pack can be done through "Start/Settings/Control Panel" select "Add Remove Programs" and you'll see it in the list. | |
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| Yes it is the same drive that caused me problems in the past, I have used nero to test the drive with an audio cd in there and I am just going to try it with a dvd but I'm not sure what the results mean.
Do you think it could be a problem with the drive itself? | |
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| Yes definately | |
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| All seems to be sorted at the moment, I went back into the device manager and re-checked the DMA settings, my dvd drive was stuck on PIO. Had to uninstall the IDE channel, re-boot and let windows re-configure.
I had already uninstalled the codec pack and VLC media player, something which was needed to playback downloaded video and srt subtitles.
Thanks for your time and willingness to help. I will be re-installing the codecs at some point and the other content I removed and will post if I find that any cause the problem to re-occur. I dont suppose you know of any other reason that this DMA setting might have got changed? | |
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| You can alter DMA settings in device manager, it usually disables when there is a problem, but usually you'd get an error message first. | |
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