I have a problem which is realy annoying me and I was wondering if You could maybe help me with this problem. When I play a DVD movie, (PC-TV S-Video) the dvd wil play for a random amount of time and then pause for a few seconds then continue playing. normally only once per film but sometimes, the sound will go off for a fraction of a second or the pic will pause for a faction of a second. Do you know what is wrong ? I thaught mayb if i upgrade to drivers 1.81 but no help, maybe its over heating so I installed an aditional fan and moved all my cards away from the hollywood +, but It still does it. Why oh why?

My system is :

Gigabyte ALi motherboard,
AMD K6-2 3D 500Mhz
128MB SDRam
Voodoo3 3500 TV
Hollywood +
Pioneer 104s (slot) DVD-Rom
SB Live
Rockwell Soft56K Modem
3Com ethernet card 10/100 (which I have tryed enabled and dissabled).

Please help.
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damian casale

Damian.a.casale@student.shu.ac.uk

Sounds like the layer change to me. Most discs have a warning that the "film may pause for a brief period of time".

It´s sounds like a layer change. See if the dvd movie case says anything about dual layer.
At least it´s better than the movies there you have to flip the disc...

As stated by daniel and Tim. This is the layer change. Most disc's have 2 layers on one of the sides. When the player needs to switch from the first to second layer, the laser needs to refocus on the second layer causing a brief interuption in audio and video.

Some players make it much more notable than others.

If you want to avoid the pause on the layer change you need to get a new DVD with a dual pick up (two lasers). For the price of these however, I would put up with the slight pause. Go and get a coffee?