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. 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.
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Another vote for VLC. Plays anything and everything.
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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.:( |
just tried realtime and it came up with an error also
The DVD cannot be played. Key exchange for DVD copy protection failed. |
Have you tried vlc yet? :lol1:
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Originally Posted by Ant
(Post 10163670)
Have you tried vlc yet? :lol1:
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? |
Originally Posted by Jamz3k
(Post 10163690)
NO!:D
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? |
Well balls 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? |
Originally Posted by Jamz3k
(Post 10164070)
Well balls 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? what's the process you're doing to play it through VLC? |
your quite correct, it was user error!
Working grand!:thumb: 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? |
Originally Posted by Jamz3k
(Post 10164184)
your quite correct, it was user error!
Working grand!:thumb: 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? |
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. :thumb: |
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