Ooops. I see you've posted since.. Ok, good deal. It's the DMA settings. Try setting it in the BIOS (push Del, F1, F2 or F10 on startup, depending on your machine).
I could try that, but I don't think that's the problem anymore. I was still curious about why SuperDvd worked fine and if it was slow transfer rate why the audio was severly shoppy and distorted but the video was absolutely fine. I decrypted a DVD into .vob and played in VLC. It sounded distorted. However if I process that .vob file into .ogg or some other file type it sounds fine.
I decrypted a DVD into .vob and played in VLC. It sounded distorted.
Like I thought software related not anything in the bios or device manager. The dvd playback on the normal disk wouldn't see any problem while the formal the disk was extracted to is simply unsupported by the player. It was written for the more common standard file types as well as disk playback,
Unsupported is definitely not the word. The extraction program split the disk I was testing into 7 .vob files. I played the second while the fourth was being extracted. It plays with great video, and audio that works but clips, hicks, and distorts a lot, exactly as if off the disk. Oddly, once the whole disk was done being ripped the exact same file played without any issues at all. The same .vob on the old-windows install of VLC works without any issues.
I made an example of what it sounds like by recording 30 seconds of a movie played straight off the disk and played fully ripped and how different they sound. Its a 450kb zip file with an .mp3 of each. If anyone wants to hear for diagnostic purposes I'd be happy to e-mail it to you or send it through other means. I don't really know a good way to give it to people besides e-mail, but I'm willing to use something else convienient.
I think you still miseed the point there. VLC may play portions when extracting segments. But it was not written to play extractions. It was meant however to run dvds and maybe video cds as well as playing mpeg II and avi type files. Burning video files to disk with a burning program takes a video with or without sound and splits it up for later burning to disk. A disk player then reassembles the segments.
That makes sense, I guess. Why would it be fine for video and not audio, though?
Here's something even stranger:
VLC defaults to opening DVD's in "DVD (menus)" mode, in which it shows audio wierdness.
Opening in plain "DVD" mode in which it opens only a specific Title track shows no audio wierdness. This sort of renders the problem moot as long as I know the title number of what I want to watch. Still, for special features it would be a hassle, and I am extremely curious as to why this strangeness occurs.
That's one reason I am waiting to grab the Vista ready version of PowerDVD here rather then counting strictly on VLC since WMP 11 is a flop even in Vista itself. At least you can see the video while the sound suffers a little while MWP 11 is good for radio or an audio cd since there's no display seen when running anything.
I won't count on the VLC player indefinitely since it is rather limited being a freeware while this along with some other free programs sometimes are better then full retail softwares! AVG is free for home use for a different type of program and all too ofren does far better then some retail products with big names.
The main problem with sound there goes from extracting files instead of using VLC the way it was intended. This is where you are defeating the purpose of the player to do the reassembly of both audo and video as they are loaded into ram off of the disk while that is being played back. Plus the VLC player is a freeware seeing quite a few limits on it.
The full retail versions of media players as well as WMP will show far more support for various file types for video and sound while most players expect to compile segments together when reading from the original media not somewhere else as separate files.
