W2K: why is harddisk accessed during dvd playing

[Dave Sorenson]

It's probably caching the DVD to the harddrive.

Dave S.

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> I'm playing movie dvds (,VOB files I think) with Matrox Cine Player on 
> both a desktop and a laptop on W2K. I expected the dvd access light to 
> be on most of the time and the hard disk not to be accessed at all. 
> Instead the harddisk and dvd alternate, with the harddisk working 
> really hard (from the noise it's making). I expect this will slow down 
> dvd playing, if not shortening the life of the harddisk.
>
> The desktop machine has 768MBytes of memory. I would have hoped that 
> was enough for any tmp space to play dvds.
>
> The desktop machine did have a virus checker, which I deinstalled, 
> without any change. The laptop doesn't have a virus checker.
>
> Anyone know what's going on?
>
> Thanks Joe
>