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jgreen:
Oklay, I'm getting more info now.  When I insert a DVD and try to play it in either WMP or MC12, I get an error message.  WMP says it cannot configure copry protection, MC12 says it failed on key exchange.

Er, guys, I bought these DVDs.  They played fine until a couple of weeks ago.  What gives?

JimH:
Do you see any similarity in this thread?
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=35019.msg238768#msg238768

jgreen:
Thanks, JimH, but no joy, although Glynor's info re/ffdshow was very helpful.  I thinik the problem goes back to a manual "housecleaning" I did on my sys drive a couple weeks back.  Since this HP lappy came with pantloads of trialware, I went through and deleted out a lot of stuff I didn't like the sound of, and in the process I guess I deleted some dependencies also.

Currently, both WMP and MC will not play a valid DVD, and both complain about failure to do something with copy protection.

HP has a "quickplay" (that I almost deleted) which will play the DVD just fine.

My current theory:  I tried to download Performer right about that time and couldn't get it properly installed, probably due to remnants of Norton AV.  I thnk performer and Bill Gates got together on DRM and then their phone call was disconnected, and now nobody can get the DRM thing going, so everything to do with DVD is suspect for MC and WMP.

It doesn't help that I've gone through and deleted or renamed things that sounded like something the RIAA/MPAA might like.  I would do a windows rollback but there's too much other good stuff that would go with it.

JimH:
Is it an ordinary DVD?  Something you should be watching?

Alex B:

--- Quote from: jgreen on August 09, 2006, 01:02:58 pm ---HP has a "quickplay" (that I almost deleted) which will play the DVD just fine.
--- End quote ---

So do you have any other DVD decryption capable software installed? PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc? HP's "quickplay" may not be compatible with other programs.

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