DVDs very Jerky

Question

I just got my Inspiron 1100 and was trying to watch a DVD on it but the picture does not stream and jerks every other frame, I tried upgrading my driver, but it did not fix the problem, is there any other way to fix it?

shortageofchair · Answer

I was just on a website with a video clip and that jerked too, so all streaming video is screwy, i still cant fix the problem.

shortageofchair · Answer

I have plenty of RAM and am updraded on the DVD player, could it be the graphics card? will the 1100 support a third party graphics card? If so could someone recommend me a good one that is relatively cheap

Mandrake99 · Answer

If you are attempting to play the dvd on battery power try it with the ac plugged in, and switch the processor to full speed if you have a speedstep processor it may be throttled back to 1/2 the true processor speed.

Ketosuki · Answer

Does it happen on all or some DVD's? If it is your video card, try updating that driver, and no you cant get a third party one. You have to buy one from dell spare parts.

PINE · Answer

See if your 'Power Options' are set to 'Portable/Laptop', if not, try this. 5150 3.06 HT64meg Nvidia768 RamUXGA Samsung30 Gig 4200 Fujitsu1300 WirelessDVD+RW NEC 5100aBios A29

shortageofchair · Answer

It worked, thank you PINE i can't believe it was just the battery setting but that saved me a lot of trouble!

PINE · Answer

Good to hear it fixed it.

trueg · Answer

What I find interesting, is how many other factors are affected by Speedstep.  I mean a P4 running at 600Mhz should easily be able to play back DVD's but it can't.  On my P4 1.7Ghz running at even 1.2Ghz, I get 1/8th the performance instead of 2/3rds when you compare just the CPU speed.  I can only assume that the GPU and memory are slowed down as well.  I guess that's one more thing that the Pentium-M addresses.

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