slow ripping / jerky playback

[funkee]

... to this board, so please be gentle.

I have a problem, which I'm hoping somebody can help me with...

Basically, I've been happily using DVD shrink for the last few months with no problems, until I recently upgraded my PC. I tend to create the backup files in a folder first, then burn the DVD later. Before I upgraded (I had a Liteon) it was creating the files in 10 mins, but now it is taking over 2 hours.

I've also just noticed that when I play any original DVD's from the drive using PowerDVD software, the playback judders, ie. it will play for a second then stop for a split second then play etc etc.

I'm running Windows 2000 on an Athlon 64 3000+ 1.67Ghz chip & 512Mb DDR RAM and the drive is a NEC 3500AG and I'm not doing anything differently than i was before. Anyone got any ideas why this is happening? The DVD drive is set up as master on IDE channel 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[scarecrow]

I also have a NEC 3500 AG, and its a very fast reader... is DMA enabled?
Also- which antivirus you are using?

[funkee]

Yep DMA is enabled - using AVG antivirus, exactly the same as I did on my old PC. I'm really stuck here - not sure whats going on. Any other suggestions?

[Master]

I had the same problem with two computers.
To be honest, i didn't searched for a solution to get powerdvd running again.
I just unistalled it and installed WinDVD instead. All is working fine now.

But i think that isn't the solution you are looking for.

[funkee]

Thanks for that, but I've just uninstalled PowerDVD and installed WinDVD and it's still juddery on playback. It's really doing my head in now....hmmmm.