Avi plays from hard drive not from cd drive

[earflea]

Made cds containing data files of avi videos. When I play them from the cd drive at random places in the film the computer hangs and there is a ratatat continuous sound from the speakers. When I copy the cds to my hard drive and play them from that source they play without any problem. Have tried variety of players Quick, Real, Divx, VLC - same results. Device Description SONY DVD RW DRU-510A. System XP Pro sp2. Video board Santa Cruz. All seem to work well save for this problem. Any ideas?

[drfsupercenter]

This is probably because they are uncompressed. The CD drive can NOT read the data as fast as it's playing so it skips. Your hard drive is much faster than a CD drive.

[chickeneater]

do you have DMA enabled? If not, enable it and see if the problem still exists.