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I found a cure for my choppy video playback. It happened with W2K's DVD Player, Real Player, and WinDVD 7 Platinum. I have an earlier version of Nero installed. It did not come with packet writing software, so I downloaded the third-party program Write DVD! to add this feature.
Write DVD! has an utility that was set incorrectly and causing my choppy playback. If you use Write DVD!, go to Start>Programs>Write DVD and click on SAI Switch Utility. In the File System tab that first appears, only the following two items should be selected:
Use SAI UDF File System Driver
Access via OS Embedded ISO-9660 File System Driver
Click OK after these changes, reboot your computer as requested, and enjoy perfect playback from your DVD player software.
Since posting this, I discovered that the above change took away my ability to drag & drop files and folders to DVD-RW disks. You have to decide which is more important to you. I had to revert to the previous settings since I need packet writing ability (drag & drop to DVD-RW).
And the final cure is: Write DVD! was not the problem with choppy playback. It's SAI Switch Utility reported that WinOnCD was found on my system which is another packet writing program. I searched and found two entries for this plugin which came with the trial version of X-Setup Pro. I uninstalled this program which had expired and rebooted. I then deleted the X-Setup folder left behind in Program Files after the uninstall. I then searched for WinOnCD and it was gone. I then inserted five different DVD movies and all played perfectly!
Write DVD! has an utility that was set incorrectly and causing my choppy playback. If you use Write DVD!, go to Start>Programs>Write DVD and click on SAI Switch Utility. In the File System tab that first appears, only the following two items should be selected:
Use SAI UDF File System Driver
Access via OS Embedded ISO-9660 File System Driver
Click OK after these changes, reboot your computer as requested, and enjoy perfect playback from your DVD player software.
Since posting this, I discovered that the above change took away my ability to drag & drop files and folders to DVD-RW disks. You have to decide which is more important to you. I had to revert to the previous settings since I need packet writing ability (drag & drop to DVD-RW).
And the final cure is: Write DVD! was not the problem with choppy playback. It's SAI Switch Utility reported that WinOnCD was found on my system which is another packet writing program. I searched and found two entries for this plugin which came with the trial version of X-Setup Pro. I uninstalled this program which had expired and rebooted. I then deleted the X-Setup folder left behind in Program Files after the uninstall. I then searched for WinOnCD and it was gone. I then inserted five different DVD movies and all played perfectly!