"Dave Hardenbrook" <> wrote in message
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> Hello --
>
> I am a computer tech trying to troubleshoot a Dell Inspiron with a
> strange issue: Most movie DVDs will play fine, but a few will cause the
> graphics to go berzerk -- You insert the disk, and as soon as the DVD
> player (PowerDVD) opens and starts to play, the display rapidly flashes
> on and off and I can't find the mouse pointer. In the flashing chaos, I
> am barely able to do a 3-finger salute to get Task Manager up, and do an
> <ALT>-E to do an End Task on PowerDVD, after which the flashing stops,
> but some window elements are not rendered, and there are black boxes on
> the screen they should be drawn.
>
> As I say, this happens only with SOME movie DVDs -- It appears to only
> occur with certain hybrid DVDs with some interactive content, such as
> the Harry Potter films, which always want to install "InterActual
> Player", thus forcing you to manually open the already-installed DVD
> player and hit "Play" (which is when the graphics go crazy).
>
> I realize the flashing screen, etc. sounds like an issue with the
> graphics controller, but why would it only happen with these hybrid
> DVDs?
>
Do not allow the InterActual player to install even if you feel that you
want to use its interactive features.
InterActual is basically a DVD playing software (with enhancements for the
interactive features) that is designed to lock your PC to playing only
region 2 discs (if you have defeated this functionality). It will
automatically replace your normal DVD player as the default player. It has
a bug in its code in that it plays many widescreen DVDs in 4:3 mode making
everything tall and thin.
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