DVD Playback vgn-fe21b

[swoodage]

My dvd playback is jerky and there is alot of static and gaps in the sound whilst playing dvds. Music played from Cds seems to play fine.

This problem has just started I don't think I have changed anything, thought i understand very little about computers.

Any help or advice much appreciated

[Blencogo]

Hi swoodage and welcome to Club Vaio.

I don't know which Optical Drive you have in your FE21B but there is a firmware update at VAIO-LINK dated 1/12/06 if you have the Pioneer DVR-K16.

There are other updates for the Matshita drive and for your nVidia card but these date from June - when did you last update your Vaio?

[Aeivan]

I've just installed this firmware upgrade on my FE11H - but after I installed it I noticed that my drive is shown as DVR-K16M in device manager.
The upgrade state only DVR-K16 (without the M suffix). Not sure that I should have installed it now!?
(Sorry Swwodage - realise this doesn't help you none! - but might be worth checking the specific K16 type on your machine before you run the upgrade?)

[avkraaij]

I had the same problem with my fe21b. I suspect it was caused by the divx and vidx codecs I installed. The problem was that I could not completely remove them. In the end I reinstalled the C-drive with the Vaio recovery tool. Now DVD playback works fine again. I use ffdshow for divx and vidx encoded videos.

[LEVELman]

Be sure to check this: http://www.club-vaio.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=35304

btw... vaio link update page is seriously quite useless page (cuz actually I believe the graphic card drivers I downloaded from there make this problem... I am quite sure that swoodage made the same but he has no idea that can affect his playback. and btw for vaio experts to know: fe21b have Sony DVD RW-G520A drive, and there are no updates on vaio link for that one. However I tryed to install a firmware for my drive, but it just showed me a message: "no supported drive detected" so another useless thingy