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Old 01 August 2011, 10:40 AM
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Default PC wont play DVDs
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
Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.
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?
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Old 01 August 2011, 10:47 AM
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Try downloading VLC media player, plays pretty much anything and will show if the problem is just with windows media player.
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Old 01 August 2011, 10:51 AM
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Another vote for VLC. Plays anything and everything.
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Gom is another good one.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_gom_player/
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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.
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just tried realtime and it came up with an error also
The DVD cannot be played. Key exchange for DVD copy protection failed.
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Have you tried vlc yet?
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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?
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Originally Posted by Jamz3k
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.
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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?
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Originally Posted by Jamz3k
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?
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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?
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Originally Posted by Jamz3k
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
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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.
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http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

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