SVCD not Playing on CD/RW

[Newbie10]

I successfully made an SVCD from the DVD Lord of the Rings. The three CD's play great on my standalone DVD player but about 7 minutes into any of the CD's the system bogs down skipping frames and sound cuts out. I believe it is a hardware problem because each CD plays so well on the standalone (Apex 600). My MB is a state of the art GigaByte GA-7VAXP. My memory is state of the art 256 DDR RAM. My HD is a 7200 RPM maxtor (not that that matters). However, my video card is an ATI Rage II Pro 128 with 32 MG SDRAM and my CD player/burner is a Lite-On
24102B 24X10X40. Ironically the DVD plays fine as do the VOB files made with DVD2SVCD, so it seems like it should be either the video card or the player. The CD/R isn't broken but is 40X too slow to play an SVCD disk (MPEG-2) file made with DVD2SVCD or do you guys think the video card is the trouble-or something else? The software is Powerrquest 4.0 which plays the MPEG Mbps rate between 3.5 and 7.0 when I play the VOB file using my hard drive but is always less that 2.0, fluxuating between 2.0 and .75 when using my CD/RW drive. Any suggestions/ideals appreciated. I need to replace something but would like your best guess where to start. Thank you for all your help. This is the best board around for learning how to copy DVD's! PS. I did a search and found no messages with this problem.

[TactX]

Have you checked DMA for your CD/RW ?

[Newbie10]

I forgot to mention I am using Windows XP. The OS pretty much assigns DMA's automatically (I think). Let mee know if this doesn't answer your question.

[TactX]

Windows 2000/XP do assign DMA automatically, but maybe it did fail for your CD/RW which could be the problem.

[Newbie10]

Thanks for your reply. I'll check it out but would like any other things to check out while I am at it. Thanks.

[destemido]

i have exactly the same prob.
winxp and the rest in the SIG. i couldn't watch tripple X and die another day. tried copying the files do HDD still no good.
i had choise but to quit!

[Newbie10]

As an experiment, I disconnected my XP Hard drive and installed Win98SE on another hard drive and then played the movie. It worked great. I must conclude that it is an XP problem. There was supposed to be a fix for this (using Windows update) but it obviously did not work. Thanks for your responses. I am still trying to find out how to customize DMA settings in XP. Ironically, reinstalling Powerquest on the Win98SE produced a screen which said it was automatically setting DMA settings. Will check to see if Win XP at Microsoft.com has more on this.