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jgreen's DVD Playback Woes
jgreen:
JimH--
Correct. Totally good-to-go, store-bought thing. Jackie Chan's "Rumble In The Bronx", currently.
Alex B--
Are you saying that HP Quickply may be the problem? Currently it's the only working playback I've got.
No PowerDVD, NoWinDVD. I downloaded FFDShow AFTER this started, in an attempt to fix.
jgreen:
Just tried a different DVD in MC, it finally read the title correctly (Rumble showed as unnamed), but now we're back to the black square and no error message at all, no nothing.
Meanwhile WMP couldn't even read the title, and showed the copyright protection dialogue, same as usual.
HP quickplay, friend of DVD watchers, played it just fine, again.
Alex B:
--- Quote from: jgreen on August 09, 2006, 01:16:34 pm ---Alex B--
Are you saying that HP Quickply may be the problem? Currently it's the only working playback I've got.
No PowerDVD, NoWinDVD. I downloaded FFDShow AFTER this started, in an attempt to fix.
--- End quote ---
MC and WMP need an installed external DVD decryption codec for commercial encrypted DVDs. FDDShow does not contain that part. I guess that your system uses whatever codec the HP Quickplay contains.
My MC12 shows this DVD configuration (right-click the display on playback > select DVD Playback Settings...)
I suppose the InterVideo (WinDVD) video decoder is responsible of the decryption on my PC.
jgreen:
okay. Although nothing is truly certain in life, I'm fairly confident that I deleted my DVD decoder when I was "cleaning up". This rings a bell because it would have seemed like yet another DVD player, and I have several already so who needs another?
The WMP error message help file talks about missing decoders, so I think we're on the right track here.
So. If I'm missing any decoder, how do I get one?
JimH:
Did you ever buy a DVD drive that came with software?
This may also work:
http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm
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