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DVD-Drive Spins Up During Movies
When I used to watch movies in Windows XP, my DVD player would correctly spin
at 1x, so as to minimize noise / vibrations. However, when I now watch movies on the same drive and computer in Vista Ultimate x64, the DVD consistently spins all the way up to maximum speed, which causes an unholy racket. So far I have determined the following: This occurs with all movie DVDs (I've tested several different titles) This occurs both in WMP11 and all freeware players I've tested This occurs with different codecs (tested Cyberlink's and ffdshow) This occurs regardless of output settings (overlay, VMR9, EVR, etc.) This DOES NOT occur if I play a movie in Cyberlink's PowerDVD player This is a stab in the dark, but I'd guess the problem might have to do with Microsoft's DVD navigator filter (?); everything else seems to be ruled out. Also, I've already updated my drive (Pioneer DVR-110D) to the latest version, which made no difference. Finally, for various reasons I don't want to use PowerDVD, so I'd really much rather have other programs work properly. So: does anyone have any idea why a modern DVD drive would run at full blast during a movie? |
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DVD-Drive Spins Up During Movies
flanger,
Since you're into stabs in the dark, here is mine: If your drive seems to be changing speeds a lot (spinning quickly and then spinning slowly), a dirty lens might be the cause, in which case a couple passes with a cleaning CD would fix it. If spin-up problems such as this occur with certain discs only, the data on the disc may be to blame. Certain types of copy protection make deliberate errors on the disc, which may be confusing your drive. There isn't much you can do about this, however. Any other guesses? -- freddy "flanger" wrote: When I used to watch movies in Windows XP, my DVD player would correctly spin at 1x, so as to minimize noise / vibrations. However, when I now watch movies on the same drive and computer in Vista Ultimate x64, the DVD consistently spins all the way up to maximum speed, which causes an unholy racket. So far I have determined the following: This occurs with all movie DVDs (I've tested several different titles) This occurs both in WMP11 and all freeware players I've tested This occurs with different codecs (tested Cyberlink's and ffdshow) This occurs regardless of output settings (overlay, VMR9, EVR, etc.) This DOES NOT occur if I play a movie in Cyberlink's PowerDVD player This is a stab in the dark, but I'd guess the problem might have to do with Microsoft's DVD navigator filter (?); everything else seems to be ruled out. Also, I've already updated my drive (Pioneer DVR-110D) to the latest version, which made no difference. Finally, for various reasons I don't want to use PowerDVD, so I'd really much rather have other programs work properly. So: does anyone have any idea why a modern DVD drive would run at full blast during a movie? |
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DVD-Drive Spins Up During Movies
Actually I recently discovered my video player (Zoom Player) allows me to
select which DVD navigator I want to use, and sure enough, when I use Cyberlink's navigator, movies play back correctly at 1x. Maybe Microsoft's navigator buffers too much data, causing the drive to 'think' its reading a data disc and not playing back a movie? I dunno... on the other hand, if there was something inherently wrong with Vista's built-in DVD navigator, you'd think a *lot* more people would be having problems. Either way, the problem is more or less fixed for me, though the whole thing is still kind of baffling. "freddy" wrote: flanger, Since you're into stabs in the dark, here is mine: If your drive seems to be changing speeds a lot (spinning quickly and then spinning slowly), a dirty lens might be the cause, in which case a couple passes with a cleaning CD would fix it. If spin-up problems such as this occur with certain discs only, the data on the disc may be to blame. Certain types of copy protection make deliberate errors on the disc, which may be confusing your drive. There isn't much you can do about this, however. Any other guesses? -- freddy "flanger" wrote: When I used to watch movies in Windows XP, my DVD player would correctly spin at 1x, so as to minimize noise / vibrations. However, when I now watch movies on the same drive and computer in Vista Ultimate x64, the DVD consistently spins all the way up to maximum speed, which causes an unholy racket. So far I have determined the following: This occurs with all movie DVDs (I've tested several different titles) This occurs both in WMP11 and all freeware players I've tested This occurs with different codecs (tested Cyberlink's and ffdshow) This occurs regardless of output settings (overlay, VMR9, EVR, etc.) This DOES NOT occur if I play a movie in Cyberlink's PowerDVD player This is a stab in the dark, but I'd guess the problem might have to do with Microsoft's DVD navigator filter (?); everything else seems to be ruled out. Also, I've already updated my drive (Pioneer DVR-110D) to the latest version, which made no difference. Finally, for various reasons I don't want to use PowerDVD, so I'd really much rather have other programs work properly. So: does anyone have any idea why a modern DVD drive would run at full blast during a movie? |