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Re: [ecs] DVD-play problems on my WIN98 TI103 Laptop Ingo \"Kevin\" Pakleppa Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:00:04 -0700

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On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 18:13 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> Sorry for posting a question unrelated to ECS, but i'm at a dead-end and 
> could really use some advice:
> When playing **some** DVDs (brand-new Verbatim discs) on my TI103 laptop 
> (WIN98), the video frequently
> freezes for minutes at a time (if not forever).
> If I try to abort the player, the PC frequently crashes (blue screen).
> This is very maddening, esp as I bought the PC mainly to play DVDs :-(,
> It worked perfectly for the first 6 months or so.
> Anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this ?

My guess is a hardware issue between the DVD drive and the actual DVD. I
have the same thing happen with an actual, brand-new, stand-alone DVD
player.

> I considered installing SUSE, but their media player does not support DVD 
> playback
> (and their related web site says that they know of no legal Linux players).

As far as I know, Linspire (used to be Lindows) has one. But since I
suspect that it isn't a software problem in the first place, it may not
help you much...

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