cant play DVD's all of a sudden

[Davegod]

I put my DVD (monty python & the holy grail) in to the drive, load PowerDVD and click play. A popup comes up "TheTV Out port of your display card is not working properly.", detail is "This copy protected disc can not be played when the TV out function is enabled." Stuck a different DVD in, same thing. Tried WMP9, got some error about TV-out - "0xC00D1167: A problem occurred with copyright protection".

Its a bona-fide DVD, that I've watched before in this machine. I havent touched any tv-out settings, actually I dont even know if i HAVE a tv-out on my Creative GF3ti200. Had a quick check through device manager and display properties but cant see any leads.

Only things I can remember having changed since last view is new Audigy drivers, a couple of XP updates and maybe a detnator update.

 

[Davegod]

i checked my backup of xp updates -

WindowsMedia9-KB819639-x86-ENU.exe
q818529.exe
Q815021_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe
msxml4qfe.exe

*points finger at "WindowsMedia9"* (the kb article) no idea how to sort this, there isnt even another dvd player in the house

 

[kursplat]

have you tried going to the display properties to see if it lists a t.v. out function that you can disable ?
or reinstall w\o "WindowsMedia9" .
good luck

 

[IQJUMPuw]

Holy crap. That's the EXACT same problem I had before. I even tried to watch my DVD's with WinDVD after fresh install of PowerDVD didn't work. Unfortunately, my computer was infected with several viruses including WORM virus. I reformatted and used firewall and I havn't had any problems ever since.

 

[Davegod]

I cant see anything that looks like a tv-out function (or any other tv-out option) in display properties

I scanned with Norton AV and then disbled it and scanned with AVG, both with most uptodate definitions, came up all clear.

I cant see the purpose in preventing dvd playback when tvout is enabled anyway - so you cant play them on your pc and watch on your tv? well, i suppose only pirates would want to do something silly like that, so i guess it makes sense to force us legal owners to rip the DVD to bypass protections, lose quality and eat HDD space

 

[mastertech01]

Could This be related?

 

[Davegod]

FS.

Installed the NVDVD program as suggested ("as conveniently the drivers still work fine with NVDVD") and I got the message

"Macrovision Distribution Failed. Playback stopped."

OMFG. Theyve just decided to prevent my computer from playing my purchased DVD's? I bet warez still works, and/or there's a some sort of hack to bypass it - oh yeah REALLY effective at stopping piracy with minimal negative effect on legit users

:disgust:

thanks for the link, i vaguely rememeber reading it aswell, completely forgot about it. digusted tbh :disgust:

I dont even have tv-out FFS! at least if i do i dont know about it and cant see it anywhere.

 

[Davegod]

there goes my ideas about getting a 5900. "Life, Liberty and the Persuit of Great Graphics" my arse. Radeon it is then.

 

[mastertech01]

I guess a temp fix would be to run an earlier driver prior to 41.09?

 

[Davegod]

good suggestion, just about to try 44.03's and failing that going back to the 30.82's.

Still, the attitude stinks that theyre happy to release drivers that intentionally and deliberately prevent a perfectly honest mainstream PC function, something that would have caused a HUGE number of their customers to definately not buy one of their products if they had known prior to their purchase.

 

[Davegod]

30.82's letting me play DVD's again, cheers guys