Fucked up sound, only when playing DVDs

[FS]

For as long as I can remember on this PC (which is a few months old), when I play DVD movies, the sound is slightly garbled and fuzzy all the time. This is the only time when the sound is fucked up - not when I play a sound file from my hard drive, or a movie from my hard drive, or an audio CD in the DVD drive. Next to the DVD-ROM drive on my PC, there's also a DVD writer drive. Playing a DVD on that one has the same effect.

Could this just be to blame on two shitty DVD drives which are most likely of the same brand, or might it be a software issue I could solve by downloading something?

[AChimp]

That sounds like a software issue. The likelihood of two drives that you own having the same defect is pretty small.

What kind of sound card do you have? I'd try downloading the latest version of DirectX and your sound drivers.

[FS]

My soundcard's a Realtek AC97 Audio, if I'm looking in the right section.

I don't assume both drives are defected, but I thought maybe both were of a bad brand.

I'm fairly certain I have the latest DirectX, but I'll look into new drivers.

[AChimp]

The drive itself doesn't have anything to do with cranking the sound out of your speakers. I'd probably say that it's your soundcard/sound drivers that's causing the problem.

Realtek sounds like one of those onboard things. Or it's a crazy European discount bin card.

[whoreable]

try a new dvd playing software too

[MetalMilitia]

Originally Posted by FS

My soundcard's a Realtek AC97 Audio, if I'm looking in the right section.

I don't assume both drives are defected, but I thought maybe both were of a bad brand.

I'm fairly certain I have the latest DirectX, but I'll look into new drivers.

You are using onboard sound so to update drivers you will need to aquire latest motherboard drivers from the manufactures website (assumeing you know who made it e.g. asus, MSI, Epox).
AC97 kind of sucks so if a driver update doesnt solve the problem you might want to pick up a cheap audugy card from somewhere.

[whoreable]

if his sound works fine everywhere else, so i doubt a new sc would do much.

[MetalMilitia]

Good point but i was under the impression most DVDs needed fancy pants audio decodeing which the AC97 might not be up to.
This is a guess though as i have never used a board with AC97. Soundstorm is the only onboard audio chipset i have used in my PC.