Okay, so I gots me a cheapie DVD-Rom drive and a stack o’ media.
Problem is-- I have a pitiful 14" monitor. Usually, when I watch (VCD or DivX) movies on the computer, I watch 'em on a 27" TV through the medium of my ATI All-in-Wonder video card. It’s an oldish one-- an AGP version with the RAGE chipset.
When I try this with the DVD player software that came bundled with the drive, (CyberLink PowerDVD) it’ll start to play the DVD, but quickly lock up. CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the task manager shows this software as not responding, and I can’t even shut it down-- needs a cold-reboot. (Everything works fine if the TV-out is not enabled.)
This is driving me nuts.
Two questions:
- Has anyone had this problem before, and found a solution?
- Can anyone point me in the direction of some decent free DVD software so I can do the trial-and-error thing?
So, pertinent details:
OS: Windows Me
Video: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 AGP
Offending software: Cyberlink PowerDVD player
Any help would be appreciated!
PS- I’m well aware that once I convince the cussed thing to get along with my TV-Out card, I’m likely to have Macrovision problems-- I’ve done a little preliminary research & don’t expect this to be a serious hassle. Please don’t offer any advice about it in this thread-- although my intent is just to watch the movies I’ve invested so much dough in on a decent screen, there’s no need to talk about stuff that would have the by-product of defeating copy-protection. Thanks!