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