| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 40349 | 2003-12-05 10:36:00 | Playing DVD Movies on PC | bba12 (1139) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 197613 | 2003-12-05 10:36:00 | Hi All I have a DVD reader as part of my Athlon system running XP with windows media Player 9. Whenever I try to play a legit DVD eg LOTR I get the error message "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a problem occurred with digital copyright protection." I have tried to follow links to microsoft knowledge base but no luck. Real Player doesn't play the DVDs either. I had previously used a trial version of DirectDVD, since expired. What's going on? Is it a microsoft conspiracy? Can I fix it? Is there a free DVD player out there? Any advice will be much appreciated. :) |
bba12 (1139) | ||
| 197614 | 2003-12-05 10:45:00 | Free...?! I know the Spiderman DVD comes with some software on it... As a temporary solution you could hire that. Im pretty sure WMP9 needs a 3rd party Plugin to play DVD's, and its likely a typical MS error message (not telling you much, or the wrong info..) Is the Disc the correct Zone? Does it happen with Other DVD's? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 197615 | 2003-12-05 11:01:00 | Thanks for the rapid reply Chilling_Silently Yes, the DVD is from the correct zone and no DVDs work any more. I think you are right; it is the expired 3rd party "plugin" that has expired hence WMP9 throws up a nonspecific error message. I must get out Spiderman again. Any good free DVD (software) players out there? Thanks again |
bba12 (1139) | ||
| 197616 | 2003-12-05 11:07:00 | Aside from the one off the Spiderman DVD, I only know of Linux applications ;-) Send me an email: Chilling_Silence [at] orcon [dot] net [dot] nz I know somebody who's getting rid of Power DVD XP.... Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 197617 | 2003-12-05 11:17:00 | There is a number of free dvd players available,u can track em down thru the tools section at www.vcdhelp.com If you cant find em and u still need one ill have a look,but ave a go yourself first. |
metla (154) | ||
| 197618 | 2003-12-05 20:21:00 | Avoid M/soft media player9 its alway attempting to tel home etc the plan is t eventually force us all into propriertry software that is controlled by M/soft stick with mp3s avoid wma etc | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 197619 | 2003-12-05 21:39:00 | Thanks All I'll have a look around and get in contact later . About to fly up to the "Big Smoke" to see Duran Duran and Robbie W . Later |
bba12 (1139) | ||
| 197620 | 2003-12-05 23:54:00 | You can play dvd on your old WM 6 . 4 which I think every computer has; even if you upgrade it¡¯s still there . Just go to start / run type in: mplayer2 . exe and you will see it . However, you will need to make some adjustments as follow . Open your registry and find the key below . Create a new string value called "EnableDVDUI" and set it to "yes" to enable DVD functionality . Restart Media Player for the change to take effect . [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\P layer\Settings] Value Name: EnableDVDUI Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value) Value Data: Yes |
lightfoot (39) | ||
| 197621 | 2003-12-06 00:08:00 | I need to add that changing registry is dangerous. So take extreme care and do a registry back up. I have done the above alterations and it works fine. So be very careful with changing the registry. It works but take extreme caution, like triple check everything . | lightfoot (39) | ||
| 1 | |||||