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do you have the latest divx codecs on it?
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I think those are what screwed it up in the first place.
I’ve got WinDVD back now. Fortunately Dell included that disc with my laptop when I bought it some 5 years ago. I didn’t want to load right away which made me think I had a CD/DVD drive issue, when it finally did load the disc and install WinDVD again, the DVD playback was all choppy.
I took the drive out, cleaned the lens and pulled a little chunk of dog fur out from the spinner thinger in the center. Seems to be working well now.