TOSHIBA TECRA 520CDT DVD DRIVE

[tattoozit]

I recently istalled a dvd drive into my toshiba tecra 520cdt laptop.  it seems to work alright, but i cant get it to play dvd movies.  i downloaded a dvd software program from the web just to see if that was the problem.  it seems to read, but the playback is real choppy.  it stutters somewhat. can anyone help?

[Chandler]

Welcome to Poasters!

The 520CDT has a P166MMX processor, this is far below the minimum requirement for playing back DVD movies (~350MHz).

You *might* be able to purchase a Cardbus based MPEG2 decoder (I've seen these on eBay) but I don't know how well they work, and which DVD software they support.

[tattoozit]

thanks chandler, I'll see if I can work it out.  I figured it was somthing like that, and thanks for the welcome...