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Thread ID: 87558	2008-02-26 03:54:00	March DVD	Pato (2463)	PC World Chat

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643647	2008-03-01 00:06:00	Do they appear in My computer tho?? Try this (www.microsoft.com) If the cd/dvd has a menu, but it doesnt open. Run it then see if it detects any errors, in the 1st screen. If it does let it fix it, then try again. Take the cd/dvd out first. Thanks. Tried that program but it didn't detect any errors and I still have the same problem. I presume the problem is with the auto-start.? Can I start the video manually somehow.?	Pato (2463)
643648	2008-03-01 00:38:00	Thanks. Tried that program but it didn't detect any errors and I still have the same problem. I presume the problem is with the auto-start.? Can I start the video manually somehow.? I have managed to view the video through VLC so it is just now a matter of trying to fix it so it starts automatically after I have inserted the DVD. Any help on how I achieve this would be appreciated. The fix is probably starting me in the face but I can't see it.	Pato (2463)
643649	2008-03-01 03:00:00	I have managed to view the video through VLC so it is just now a matter of trying to fix it so it starts automatically after I have inserted the DVD. Any help on how I achieve this would be appreciated. The fix is probably starting me in the face but I can't see it. Still haven't found where I start to sort out my problem. Any help please.?	Pato (2463)
643650	2008-03-01 13:45:00	Still haven't found where I start to sort out my problem. Any help please.? I went down the road and bought a copy of PCWorld and inserted the supplied copy of the DVD that came with the magazine. I was able to open my browser of choice IE7 and open the index on the root of the DVD. Then I clicked on the picture and the Video played without any problem using Windows Media Player. Are you trying to just copy the video from the original to another media or what? If so then you can create an autorun.inf file to suit yourself. I have a couple of cats at home here and I can quite frankly understand their language better. You may have noticed that the "flight simulator" is ground based in Auckland and here was me thinking that this was a game. Nope. Just another advert.	Sweep (90)
643651	2008-03-01 20:35:00	I went down the road and bought a copy of PCWorld and inserted the supplied copy of the DVD that came with the magazine. I was able to open my browser of choice IE7 and open the index on the root of the DVD. Then I clicked on the picture and the Video played without any problem using Windows Media Player. Are you trying to just copy the video from the original to another media or what? If so then you can create an autorun.inf file to suit yourself. I have a couple of cats at home here and I can quite frankly understand their language better. You may have noticed that the "flight simulator" is ground based in Auckland and here was me thinking that this was a game. Nope. Just another advert. I normally do what you have done using Windows Media Player but for some reason it will not work that way now so I don't know what has happened. I can load it using VLC but it just won't start automatically when I insert the DVD and click on the program i.e. Flight Sim, and it has done so up until now. I give up!!.	Pato (2463)
643652	2008-03-01 21:16:00	I normally do what you have done using Windows Media Player but for some reason it will not work that way now so I don't know what has happened. I can load it using VLC but it just won't start automatically when I insert the DVD and click on the program i.e. Flight Sim, and it has done so up until now. I give up!!. Let us try again!! Tell me step by step! You insert the DVD original from PCWorld into your DVD writer on your computer. What do you expect to happen and what does happen? The file contained on the original DVD is a movie clip with an mpg extension. Possibly your file associations are wrong.	Sweep (90)
643653	2008-03-01 23:40:00	Let us try again!! Tell me step by step! You insert the DVD original from PCWorld into your DVD writer on your computer. What do you expect to happen and what does happen? The file contained on the original DVD is a movie clip with an mpg extension. Possibly your file associations are wrong. I am using Firefox and up until this problem I would just click on any MPEG file on the DVD and it would just load and play. Then suddenly with this latest DVD it would just say "Loading" and go no further. But I have just tried it again and for some unknown reason this time it brought the Window "opening flightsim.mpg. You have chosen to open flightsim.mpg etc". What should Firefox do with this file? I just ticked "open with RealPlayer (default) and it opened. Now why that option should suddenly present itself for the first time I don't know. But it is working ok again and that is the main thing. Many thanks for your interest and endeavours to help. Much appreciated.	Pato (2463)
643654	2008-03-02 04:33:00	I am using Firefox and up until this problem I would just click on any MPEG file on the DVD and it would just load and play. Then suddenly with this latest DVD it would just say "Loading" and go no further. But I have just tried it again and for some unknown reason this time it brought the Window "opening flightsim.mpg. You have chosen to open flightsim.mpg etc". What should Firefox do with this file? I just ticked "open with RealPlayer (default) and it opened. Now why that option should suddenly present itself for the first time I don't know. But it is working ok again and that is the main thing. Many thanks for your interest and endeavours to help. Much appreciated. No worries. At least it is sorted and thanks for your reply.	Sweep (90)
643655	2008-03-03 06:45:00	Unfortunately I subscribe to the mag rather than buying it at the store, so when mine finally arrives in the post I might be able to tell you how well the DVD works. You'd think a subscriber might get it a week earlier not a week later than the magazine stores, but alas I have never once got it before the store (and I live in Wellington).	Twelvevolts (5457)
643656	2008-03-03 07:34:00	Unfortunately I subscribe to the mag rather than buying it at the store, so when mine finally arrives in the post I might be able to tell you how well the DVD works. You'd think a subscriber might get it a week earlier not a week later than the magazine stores, but alas I have never once got it before the store (and I live in Wellington). I have sorted my problems thanks. I also subscribe and I thought I got it before the mag shops but I have never bother to check.	Pato (2463)
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