VLC 0.8.6d unable to play AUDIO CD

[GiacomoGo]

Does anyone recognize these messages and know a solution? This happens with every Audio CD I try to "File -> Open Disc ... -> Audio CD". The resulting sound is extremely choppy and unrecognizable as music. I'm on Win XP Home SP 2 on an aging HP Pavilion with a cd/dvd writer that has always caused random problems ( TSST corp, CD/DVDW TS-L532R, firmware HA05).

Is this just another demonstration of how lousy my HP hardware is, or does someone have a fix?

main error: cannot pre fill buffer
main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (73915)
main warning: audio drift is too big (167985), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (144766), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (121546), dropping buffer

... <snip> ... similar messages over & over until I click STOP ...

main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (73755)
main warning: audio drift is too big (168581), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (145362), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (122142), dropping buffer
main debug: control type=0
main debug: control: stopping input
main debug: closing input
main debug: removing module "wav"
main debug: removing module "cdda"
main debug: removing module "araw"
main debug: thread times: real 0m17.000000s, kernel 0m0.343750s, user 0m0.015625s
main debug: thread 4160 joined (input/decoder.c:191)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `araw', 0 PES in FIFO
main debug: removing module "s16tofloat32"
main debug: removing module "headphone_channel_mixer"
main debug: removing module "linear_resampler"
aout_directx debug: closing audio device
aout_directx debug: DirectSoundThread exiting
main debug: thread times: real 0m16.609375s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 4640 joined (directx.c:598)
main debug: removing module "aout_directx"
main debug: removing module "float32tos16"
main debug: removing module "float32_mixer"
main debug: thread times: real 0m18.359375s, kernel 0m0.265625s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 3896 joined (input/input.c:412)

[VLC_help]

You have DMA enabled?
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/st ... E-DMA.mspx

[GiacomoGo]

You have DMA enabled?
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/st ... E-DMA.mspx

thanks for this reference -- I checked my settings, which do automatically detect PIO transfer (DMA not available). Still, VLC cannot play an audio cd.

Any other suggestions out there?
Anyone able to confirm by experience my suspicion that my HP Pavilion hardware (TSST corp, CD/DVDW TS-L532R, firmware HA05) is junk?

edit : definitely garbage HP DVD drive -- same problem with VLC 0.8.6c on this drive, but neither VLC version has any such problems on a DELL laptop with a DVD-RW that has been completely reliable for many years.

Thanks for the help!

[VLC_help]

http://winhlp.com/node/10
it has some tips how to re-enable DMA for optical drive.