Noobish Question

[Gautama2]

So, for the spring trip, I'm wanting to take along a few DVD's to pass the time on this said roadtrip. But my laptop won't play them for some reason, I'm using WMP 11, which I think may be the cause. Solution?

 

[HN]

use MPC (Media Player Classic, NOT wmp 6.4) or VLC. both should be able to play DVDs natively.

 

[mulletgut]

VLC ftw

 

[VIAN]

Media Player Classic is better for noobs

 

[ElDonAntonio]

can't help but if you want more feedback, post a more informative title for your thread.

 

[Captante]

Have you ever successfully played DVD's on your laptop before? If not you most likely need to install the correct codec because without it Windows Media player will not play DVD's... if you have a copy of Win-DVD or Power DVD sitting around that will do it & there are also some free programs that will do the trick.

 

[Gautama2]

I've tried VLC, Interactual Player, and WMP11. VLC just won't play it, but Interactual and WMP11 both give me an error saying it cannot play DVD files and I should try to lower my screen resolution and color depth, I did, and got the exact same error.

 

[VIAN]

try another DVD, it may be that specific DVD.

 

[Gautama2]

Originally posted by: VIAN
try another DVD, it may be that specific DVD.

Already did, same thing.

 

[Gautama2]

Anyone? Leaving tomorrow and would like to get this sorted out?

 

[RedBeard]

VLC will play DVD's.
You aren't doing something right. It doesn't depend on anything else.
Interactual Player is NOT a dvd player/decoder.

Is it a CDROM drive?????

 

[Gautama2]

Originally posted by: RedBeard
Is it a CDROM drive?????

Nope, used to play DVDs fine. You think if I use AnyDVD it will work? (Not quite sure what that program does)

 

[RedBeard]

AnyDVD removes CSS protection to let you copy DVD's.

It isn't gonna help you. Maybe your system is Fubar? Hardware failure?

 

[Gautama2]

Somehow, AnyDVD in conjunction with VLC allows me to play it? Doesn't make much sense, but it works. Does not work when AnyDVD is not running. Hmm.

Anyhoo, this will work for the trip, but I'd like a more concrete solution as AnyDVD is simply a trial.

 

[yankeesfan]

Are you using Windows Vista?

 

[Gautama2]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Are you using Windows Vista?

Nope, XP SP2

 

[yankeesfan]

Found this on the VLC forums:

"Most MASTSHITA drives have an extra region protection that disables VLC (and *any* other player for that matter) playing region-mismatching CSS encrypted movies. The extra protection is that the drives REFUSES to read raw encrypted data sectors, that is, once the region mismatch has been detected, every read operation is aborted, i.e. I/O ERROR. It doesn't matter that VLC can do a crypto analysis and crack the CSS key, it can't READ THE MOVIE, so it can't play it."

Do you have a Matshita DVD drive?

 

[Flammable]

sometimes my drive wont spin up the disc so i have to restart lappy

 

[Oxaqata]

Edit

 

[Gautama2]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Found this on the VLC forums:

"Most MASTSHITA drives have an extra region protection that disables VLC (and *any* other player for that matter) playing region-mismatching CSS encrypted movies. The extra protection is that the drives REFUSES to read raw encrypted data sectors, that is, once the region mismatch has been detected, every read operation is aborted, i.e. I/O ERROR. It doesn't matter that VLC can do a crypto analysis and crack the CSS key, it can't READ THE MOVIE, so it can't play it."

Do you have a Matshita DVD drive?

Its a Samsung Combo drive.

Dual or single, I have no clue <_<