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If Something Goes Wrong
Resolving a hardware conflict
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may impact the playback performance of the WinDVD
player.
WinDVD controls are disabled.
Controls may be grayed out by commands on the DVD. For
example, it is common for DVD movie titles to disable fast-
forward and rewind during the legal notices at the beginning
of a movie.
Playback performance is poor.
The use of DMA dramatically increases the DVD playback
performance of your system.
To make sure DMA is turned on and to check its settings:
1
Click
Start
, then
Control
Panel
.
2
Click the
Performance and Maintenance
icon, then
click the
System
icon.
3
Click
Hardware
tab, then the
Device Manager
button.
4
Double-click
IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers
to expand it,
then double-click
Secondary IDE Channel
.
The Properties Box appears.
5
Select the
Advanced
Settings
tab, then select
DMA if
available
from the
Transfer Modes
drop-down list. In
the correct device area, click
OK
.
6
The system must be restarted for this setting to take
effect.
The Root or Title menu does not open.
Most DVD titles have one or both of the “Root” and “Title”
menus. If one menu button appears to do nothing, try the
other menu button.
WinDVD performance decreases after making a system
change.
DVD playback performance is dependent upon several
system resources. Changes to these system resources caused,
