After my thread yesterday asking now to copy DVD's to my HDD. I had wanted to make a start on this thismorning but ran into problems straight away.

When I put a DVD in the drive and Windows Media Player busts into life I get the following error
I have updated the drivers on my graphics card, dvd drive and downloaded k-lite codecs with no luck.

Can anyone else shine a light on this before I buy a Mac?

 

Try downloading VLC media player, plays pretty much anything and will show if the problem is just with windows media player.

 

Another vote for VLC. Plays anything and everything.

 

Gom is another good one.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_gom_player/

 

Cheers will give it a blast

Think I've found the problem (maybe). My PC seems to think it has a DVD-ROM drive(D and a DVD-Drive(E (E is set to Region1 and will not allow me to change region even though it says i have 4 goes.

I'm mega confused.

 

just tried realtime and it came up with an error also

 

Have you tried vlc yet?

 

NO!

Quick update and then I'll defo download VLC. I downloaded WinDVD after a bit of googling and I can now play DVD's via WinDVD but not Windows Media Player.

Do i still need to download VLC or what?

 

I would as it virtually plays any thing and less bloaty then windvd.

 

Well ***** to that! Just uninstall WinDVD and installed VLC and VLC won't play my DVDs.

What might be causing the problem? I assume it is a codec issue?

 

VLC don't having codec issues normally user ones

what's the process you're doing to play it through VLC?

 

your quite correct, it was user error!

Working grand!

But i still would like to know why Windows Media player won't play my DVDs? Will this not be a complete fly in my ointment as I'll be using my Xbox360 to play the ripped DVDs?

 

because it's a load of Shyte

 

get and old xbox. not a 360. get a pimped version of xbox media centre. away you go. won't do the new HD stuff, it runs out of puff. i ran one for years until i got a dedicated media player.

 

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

You don't have to pay for it if you look around a bit either.