Page 1 of Problems with The Mummy Returns

Folks,

I was given a copy of the Mummy returns as a Christmas pressie which I sat down to watch on my Pioneer 717 and happily enjoyed.

I also have a SD-612 DVD-ROM drive on my Compaq Presario PC which I wanted to watch the film on as well. However, I came across the two following problems when trying to watch the film on the PC :

a) the picture would go blank after twenty to thirty minutes (didn`t seem to be linked to the same point in the film) and the PC wouldn`t respond. This happened once where the sound continued to playback while the picture disappeared but twice when both sound and vision were lost.

On the first occasion I was able to kill the DVD playing process (it`s one that comes on the disc - Advent? - and didn`t use the DVDExpress player that was supplied with the PC)while the two following times I had to reboot the machine completely.

b) the sound seemed to occasionally drop out and come back as if there was some really bad attempt at surround sound decoding going on (the PC is only stereo).

Has anyone else experienced this or a similar bug with another film? Any ideas why either of these happened and what could be done to resolve this?

Cheers,

Gareth

p.s. Happy New Euro

(With me working in Germany, I now have Euros, deutschmarks and sterling all rattling around in my pockets - with the DM disappearing at the end of Feb, I find myself hoping the pound goes soon too!)

go into control panel and check that the screen saver and power options dont have screen blanking enabled. could also disable any power saving options as it can be a real pain sometimes.

Thanks Sash, I`ll give it a go ....

Gareth

Tyco - I am so happy to hear that this fault is happening elsewhere. I have got the exact same problem with the sound dropping out on my Pioneer 535. It happens on the Mummy Returns & Jurrassic Park 3 (both are R1 films) I don`t know what the fault is, but I suspect it is the Pioneers or the films themselves. Is your Mummy Returns R1 or R2?

MGS,

Mine`s an R2 copy.

Cheers,

Gareth

What software are you using to watch the DVD on your PC, ie have you downloaded the PowerDVD off the net which only allows playback for 30 mins ?

This item was edited on Thursday, 10th January 2002, 13:30