Laggy DVD???

[NIX]

hey all!

ok my PC specs are
xp pro
512 ddr ram
intel p4 3.0ghz with hyper threading
80gig 7200 rpm HD
basic DVD drive, came with my parents HP they got a year ago
VLC 7.2

now in VLC my DVD video lags, but the sound is ok... in any other DVD player program it works fine... are there some bad settings? I have all the default settings VLC came with....

I used VLC 7.1 and the display and control were sepereate.... now when they are one thing (video and control in same window) my DVD lags.

thanks,
NIX

[NIX]

oh, 2 more things.... I am trying to stream the legal US version of Ice Age so my cool tv/pc in the basement can show it (dunno if its the DVD) and the other thing... the DVD plays, so no play errors, just a really laggy DVD, its laggy on the computer playing it (specs in previous post) and I haven't even tried streaming it yet!

NIX

[pronerd]

This is a long shot but you want to make sure that DMA is enabled for the DVD drive. I stopped using Windows after Win2k so I am not sure were you set this now. Since it is windows XP it probably it is enabled. If it is a generic drive it is possible the driver for it did not support DMA, or did not enable it by default.

It would also be interesting to open the task manager and see if the CPU usage is at 100%. If so it is probably over whelming the system resources. VLC is still in its infancy, and for the most part it is not able to take advantage of the advance features on video cards that handle most of the Decoding load. So VLC is doing on the CPU for now.