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Laptop trouble

Postby Edward » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:44 pm

I'm having some trouble with my laptop's DVD player, and I don't really know what's wrong. I am currently watching season two of Dragon Ball Z, and did not have any trouble with the first three discs. When I got to disc four, the player would stop working whenever I clicked on any of the menu options. However, there was no issue with the disc, as it played just fine on another DVD player.

Now I am on disc five, and it is skipping in some places. And about halfway through the disc when on the marathon feature setting, it stops working. I have not tried it on a different player, but I am sure it would work as the discs are brand new and have not been played before.

I have tried using a lens cleaner on the laptop, and while that worked for disc four, it has not worked for disc five, and I now have no idea what to do. Can anyone help?
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Postby Xeno » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:24 pm

What software are you using to watch the videos in? Have you tried different DVDs since this started (a different show from a different company)?
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Postby Edward » Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:26 am

^ The software I'm using is Toshiba DVD player. I watched an episode of FMAB, and it worked just fine. I even got through the DBZ disc without a problem. I watched it in English though, so maybe the problem is only when I watch it in Japanese, or if the problem was temporary.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:01 pm

Could be a software problem. Try playing the disc in Windows Media Player and see what happens.
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Postby Arya Raiin » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:16 pm

I shall always recommend VLC. It's free and (in my opinion) also works better than Windows Media Player. It's probably just that the coding on the CD is conflicting with the player. If there was a hardware issue, you'd probably be having it with all of the CDs you played.
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Postby Xeno » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:38 pm

Arya Raiin (post: 1492175) wrote:I shall always recommend VLC. It's free and (in my opinion) also works better than Windows Media Player. It's probably just that the coding on the CD is conflicting with the player. If there was a hardware issue, you'd probably be having it with all of the CDs you played.


VLC is a good one, as is Media Player Classic H.C. (not to be confused with Windows Media Player even though it looks like the older versions of it), which is what I use if I'm on a Windows based computer. Make sure you have all the necessary codecs installed as well, there are a number of them, the Combined Community Codec Pack seems to do the best job of covering the bases though (and MPC is included in the download).
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