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Anyone having troubles on DVD playback from USB drives in Vista?

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JohnT:
It comes packaged with windows in a dll:
c:\windows\system32\qdvd.dll

tombert:
I posted this issue in a Microsoft forum and got a reply that Vista possibly recognizes my USB drives as DVD drives. It seems to be a bug of Vista ... but I'd like to know: Are there other people having this issue too??

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video&tid=846b5d2a-5998-4f8c-9ca9-e3c672bd9f63&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.de.windows.vista.multimedia&tid=2da70aee-909a-46d6-880b-83404c140bd1&cat=de_DE_20A85908-4EE8-FE87-B411-4AB4326FB01D&lang=de&cr=DE&p=1

tombert:
Mastermho had the same troubles and found a solution, so I wanted to post his findings here:

Hi
I got the same problem.
Seems that Vista won't play any Vob from external hard drive because this is
a removable drive.
I found a solution.
You have to create a junction to a folder on the external drive.

use cmd and write (from a local drive):
mklink /J movies f:\movies

Vista will create a new "virtual" folder with this new folder you can play
all DVD files.

Regards
Mastermho

Magic_Randy:
I have the same problem on my new Vista PC.   If I try to play a DVD in a Video_TS.IFO file on a USB disc, it does not work. It says it is waiting. 

If I copy the folder to a local disc, it works fine.

If I use the software that came with my PC, it also works fine.  The software is CyberLink PowerDVD. So there must be something that can be controlled at the software level to fix this issue.

tombert:
Thanks for info - makes me feel better if I'am not the only one - already thoughts so ;)
But it doesnt work with Microsofts MC as well - so I'am not sure if its a player only bug.
Did you try the instructions from Mastermho - I didnt have time to try myself ...

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