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Title: Playing a DVD shuts down MC11
Post by: mysixstring on March 25, 2005, 12:11:13 am

I'm having an issue where MC11 shuts down every time I try to play a DVD. I am still able to use PowerDVD to watch DVDs so I don't think I have a decoder problem. I don't play DVDs on my computer often so I don't know when this may have started. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it and thank you for the wonderful software.


Media Center Registered 11.0.223 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2377 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 314 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1552 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1556 (xpsp2_gdr.040517-1325) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive F: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-851S    Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive G: PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-W1210A  Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive F: LITE-ON  DVDRW LDW-851S     Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:4  MaxSpeed:9  BurnProof:Yes
  Drive G: PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-W1210A   Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:12  MaxSpeed:12  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: Playing a DVD shuts down MC11
Post by: glynor on March 25, 2005, 03:37:15 pm

I can't really help you there, but I will say that I had no end of troubles (not your's specifically) playing DVD's through MC using PowerDVD's decoder.  I read somewhere that PowerDVD's decoder isn't very friendly about being used in external applications.  As soon as I switched to WinDVD (or just used ATI's DVD decoder) my troubles went away.

Just my 2c...