Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:34:00 -0000 From: "George Derby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: DVD problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Help with Portege I recently received a Toshiba Portege 3110. It is larger than my Lib50 but the screen is so much easier for my older eyes to see. It came with the Toshiba authorized DVD drive that uses a PCMCIA card for the interface. I am trying to play a movie on it,but it has the occasional jitter and dropped audio. It has the max RAM (192 meg) and a 300 mhz processor. Is there a player that is more efficient than the others? Is there anything I can do, other than making the picture size smaller, to make it all play smoothly? (I do not think I am ready to tackle Linux just yet) I know this is (slightly) off topic, but it is a Toshiba, right? And you guys are some of the most savvy people I know. Hello I have quite a bit of experience of trying to get DVD to work on Librettos and other laptops. Essentially, it is down to the speed of the processor (300 Mhz) is just below recommended so I am not surprised it is jittery. I have had the Libretto running DVD and that was initially slow / jittery and the audio broke up. Ensure that DMA is enabled on the DVD drive - this is certainly an option on PC drives but I am not sure that it is on PCMCIA drives. Go to Control Panel, System, Device Manager, click CD rom, and go to properties of your drive. If you use a Margi card, that is a big improvement. It is a dedicated DVD PCMCIA card - that really did improve the quality of the picture / sound, rather than using just software only, such as PowerDVD. Best wishes George ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
