DVD playback with ISA soundcard

[gunbuster]

I'm having some problems playing DVDs on my computer. The sound crackles and playback isn't very smooth. I'm suspecting it is my soundcard as it is ISA and not PCI (yes, I still have an ISA soundcard) as the sound might not be keeping up with the video. Does anybody know for a fact whether or not an ISA soundcard would have any effect on DVD playback? I've read that it does as well as it doesn't.

I'm running on a AMD K6-2 500, 512MB RAM, WinXP, ISA SoundBlaster 32 PnP, ATI All in Wonder 128.

Any help, suggestions, replies would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

[vic102482]

isa cards

isa cards are 16 bit and the processor you have is i beleve 32 bit but either way isa cardds are slower (8mhz bus) and the least advances of the cards on the market today now if u had an Eisa card that would be a diffrent storybut just try to replace the sound card with a pci and see what happens and with an amd and 500 mghz you should have an on board built in sound card, if you do try using that.

[gunbuster]

Well for those interested in knowing...

I went out an bought a PCI sound card and now I can playback DVDs with no problems at all. I have no clue as to why it helped but all I can say is that an old / slow soundcards - dating back to the old ISA Sound Blaster 32 - will cause some performance problems with DVDs (especially in Windows 2000 or WinXP).