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Gawd
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I use the AVS Media Player on my HTPC to play DVDs, and about 2 months ago, I started having problems. HTPC rig is in my signature.
Even when I first starting using AVS, I would have skippy audio, until i set the audio to 4 channel (2 front / 2 rear). I was never able to get 5.1 sound through it (optical cable from chaintech 710 to my natural sound receiver). Didn't matter though. Sounded great, and video was very nice.
So I hadn't used it in a while, and tried to run a DVD about 2 months ago, and when it was skipping, this time, I noticed the video was skipping too. That was new, but i plugged on anyway, re-set the audio to 4 channel, and figured it would be fine.
Well it wasn't. In fact, the video and audio kept skipping. Last week, I tried another DVD, and got the same issue, only this time, after fiddling with it for a long time (thinking maybe it was just a setting that would remedy the situation), my system actually auto-restarted. ( )
I'm having trouble figuring out if this is even hardware related at this point. I can play AVI and MPEG video just fine on WMP, and video and sound on other applciations is just fine. could my DVD player be toast? Is AVS just a crappy medium, and should I buy software to allow me to play DVDs? The rig is pretty bare bones, but honestly, I don't feel like I'm asking too much out of it. System doesn't seem overloaded when I'm playing a video (CPU usage isn't maxed) and I don't have too much memory being sucked up - even with only a gig.
Help!
TIA
zv
Even when I first starting using AVS, I would have skippy audio, until i set the audio to 4 channel (2 front / 2 rear). I was never able to get 5.1 sound through it (optical cable from chaintech 710 to my natural sound receiver). Didn't matter though. Sounded great, and video was very nice.
So I hadn't used it in a while, and tried to run a DVD about 2 months ago, and when it was skipping, this time, I noticed the video was skipping too. That was new, but i plugged on anyway, re-set the audio to 4 channel, and figured it would be fine.
Well it wasn't. In fact, the video and audio kept skipping. Last week, I tried another DVD, and got the same issue, only this time, after fiddling with it for a long time (thinking maybe it was just a setting that would remedy the situation), my system actually auto-restarted. ( )
I'm having trouble figuring out if this is even hardware related at this point. I can play AVI and MPEG video just fine on WMP, and video and sound on other applciations is just fine. could my DVD player be toast? Is AVS just a crappy medium, and should I buy software to allow me to play DVDs? The rig is pretty bare bones, but honestly, I don't feel like I'm asking too much out of it. System doesn't seem overloaded when I'm playing a video (CPU usage isn't maxed) and I don't have too much memory being sucked up - even with only a gig.
Help!
TIA
zv