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[Sam]

Attempting to play a DVD freezes up MJ...  I have a Philips DVD RW.
The features page says that in order to play DVDs, MJ requires "DirectShow 6.1 software and an mpeg2 decoder"
That must be the problem. I don't know where to get or how to choose this software.
I need some direction here.
Thanks.
(Also, an interesting bug appeared after I restarted MJ8 after it froze and I end-tasked it. MJ became always-on-top, even after I tried to select other windows such as IE or Windows Explorer. I haven't been able to replicate this.)

[JimH]

You need to install the software that came with the DVD player.

DirectShow is part of DirectX, available from Microsoft, but installing the DVD player software may solve the problem.

[Sam]

I have a Dell 8200 with XP and Philips DVD RW pre-installed.
I'm pretty sure that XP already has Direct X.
The Dell came with Power DVD player, which works fine.
I had installed InterActual DVD player (which came with some DVD movies), and it used to work (or at least it worked on the day I installed it). I just tested it today, and it didn't work. So I uninstalled it, thinking there might be some conflict with MJ8. No change to MJ8.
I also uninstalled ATI Multimedia Center... which came with my All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500. Still, MJ8 crashes when I try to play a DVD.


And, I continue to get the always-on-top "feature."  When I select other program windows, they appear behind MJ8 when MJ8 is in a window or full-screen.  I can view other windows by minimizing MJ8.  It's only after I crash MJ8 trying to play a DVD, but not always.

[Sam]

Any chance I can get help on this?
Has MJ8 been tested with Philips DVD 'plus' RW (The plus sign gets dropped on this bb.)