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Title: Help with DVD Playback
Post by: MarkGrigsby on December 21, 2003, 06:46:05 am
I would be very grateful for some help here!...

The DVD playback in MC9 doesn't seem to work for me.  I can play DVDs perfectly with PowerDVD, but both Windows Media Player and MC9 don't work.  I tried reinstalling, no luck.  I also uninstalled PowerDVD, then MC9 gave me the error that no codec was present.  I reinstalled, and it doesn't work again!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Mark.
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: JimH on December 21, 2003, 08:04:46 am
Install the software that came with the DVD player.
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: MarkGrigsby on December 21, 2003, 09:02:32 am
Quote from: JimH on December 21, 2003, 08:04:46 am
Install the software that came with the DVD player.

Thanks - I tried this, but still a problem.  I actually used Ghost to revert to a time when I knew everything worked (2 months ago).  I did some tests, and DVD playback all okay.

I then installed the latest MC9 version (my Ghost restore had taken me back to 9.1.288 I think).  Immediately, I could no longer play DVDs in Windows Media player...

Unless I'm missing something, this points to some conflict introduced in later MC builds.  Trouble is, I have no idea how to isolate it.  I can't play DVDs in MC, nor WMP - PowerDVD is the only S/w that still works for me.

Any thoughts?

Mark.
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: JimH on December 21, 2003, 09:22:51 am
Try a search for PIO here.  Windows can silently change your hardware settings for CD drives when it detects errors.  Zrocker had this problem, I believe.  I'm not sure it's related or even applies to DVD drives, but give it a try.

If it were an MC thing, we'd probably be seeing a lot of it.
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: xen-uno on December 21, 2003, 09:36:36 am
If it's any consolation, I've never had DVD playback working under MC (either complains about the video or crashes)...and I'm using PowerDVD 4.x and an ext Sony DRU500-DLX. Most that are successful with playback seem to be running WinDVD.

Rx
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: Griff on December 21, 2003, 10:49:09 am
Xen and Mark

"Shot in the dark"

Disable hardware acceleration in Power DVD and see what happens.

Griff
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: JorgeGVB on December 21, 2003, 01:56:55 pm
Quote from: MarkGrigsby on December 21, 2003, 06:46:05 am
The DVD playback in MC9 doesn't seem to work for me.  I can play DVDs perfectly with PowerDVD, [/quote

I have a similar problem, I can't play DVDs and get the following message:

Key exchange for DVD copy protection failed.  Can't playback this DVD-Video disc.

The DVDs play fine with my ATI DVD software.  
 
 
Title: Re:Help with DVD Playback
Post by: xen-uno on December 23, 2003, 09:42:00 am
Griff,

Hardware acceleration was turned off. Just tried with 10.0.23. No change...MC reads the disk fine (sees all the chapters) but as soon as you hit Play, she crashes.

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