Processing power to read DVD

[xXDracoXx]

I watch a lot of anime and burn the stuff onto DVD's to free my hard drive. When I try to read them off the disc, the videos lag quite a bit. It's not a data problem because when I copy the files to my HDD, they run just fine again. I'm thinking it has to do with CPU power. Is my cpu fast enough to stream DivX (or Xvid, I forgot) from a DVD?

 

[Vile]

I really don't think it's a CPU problem... How new is your DVD drive? Also, try freeing some RAM before watching a DVD. Try using another program to read DVDs?

 

[xXDracoXx]

It's just a few months old. It has 16X write speed support, dual layer +/-, etc.

I'm currently using Windows Media player for my videos and I'm pretty sure 1GB of ram is enough for video tasks.

 

[endyen]

Your chip is lots fast enough to watch a DVD.
Check to make sure your DVD drive is set to UDMA mode, in device manager.
Dell is famous for loading the start menu with crap. It could easily be eating up a large chunk of your memory.
Check it by going to run, typing in "msconfig", hitting enter, then clicking on the startup tab.
There is nothing in there that you can not uncheck, though unchecking anti-virus may not be a great idea.

 

[xXDracoXx]

UDMA Mode?