DyDstrysNit Posted November 27, 2001 Posted November 27, 2001 The DVD is detected in the playlist drop-down, but clicking to play it freezes up the player, and I have to kill it via Task Manager. Anybody know a quick fix, please?Thanks.
BAH Posted November 27, 2001 Posted November 27, 2001 A few questions1. What type of DVD Player2. What graphics Card3. Have you installed the DVD upgrade for media player
DyDstrysNit Posted November 27, 2001 Author Posted November 27, 2001 It's in a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. I've used used some of the beta versions of XP from the MSDN packages and have had no trouble. It's an internal DVD drive, a Savage video card and I have not installed the DVD upgrade...
BAH Posted November 27, 2001 Posted November 27, 2001 that could be your problem.....if you look on my sig at my site you will find the dvd.zip and the last page.Try that.
DyDstrysNit Posted November 27, 2001 Author Posted November 27, 2001 :hohum Got the .zip file, installed it, and rebooted. The only change is that it doesn't lock up the player. Still no sound or video. Could it be codec issues?
BAH Posted November 27, 2001 Posted November 27, 2001 dont know i installe dthe codec on mine and it solved the problem.You say this has worked on preveouse versions of XP..?
DyDstrysNit Posted November 27, 2001 Author Posted November 27, 2001 Right. That's the wierd part. It worked on pre-GA versions, but not on the actual release. Do you know of a quick way to re-install the video codecs? I've been searching TechNet for it and can't find anything.
DyDstrysNit Posted November 27, 2001 Author Posted November 27, 2001 :WTF?: ...or was the .zip file the codec install?
BAH Posted November 27, 2001 Posted November 27, 2001 yes that is the codec...what is the disk you are trying to play
DyDstrysNit Posted November 27, 2001 Author Posted November 27, 2001 It's a James Taylor concert. It played in the drive when it was a Win2k system. I even had a copy of Media Player 8 installed and working. Then when I went to use XP, it goofed up.
Fangzter Posted November 27, 2001 Posted November 27, 2001 To the best of my testing knowledge:In order to use MPlayer as the defualt DVD Player you need a hardware decoder. Mplayer doesn't have the codecs for decrypting DVD's without the hardware decoder.Since it is a laptop, have you tried WinDVD or PowerDVD?
DyDstrysNit Posted November 28, 2001 Author Posted November 28, 2001 The odd thing is that it's worked with pre-release versions of XP from the MSDN packages. I can't figure out why, now that it's a full paid-for copy, it won't play DVD.
Fangzter Posted November 28, 2001 Posted November 28, 2001 I tested all the versions on XP.I was never able to use a DVD drive by itself without a software decoder.Have you looked at the KB's for this issue?
Guest LouCypher Posted November 28, 2001 Posted November 28, 2001 It's a James Taylor concert. It played in the drive when it was a Win2k system. I even had a copy of Media Player 8 installed and working. Then when I went to use XP, it goofed up. [/quote:b2458bea26]Not knowing where you are, I'd say it might be a region issue with the DVD. I have a region free Toshiba DVD-ROM that XP wants to force in to Region 1 (US) because of the Hollywood Plus. You could try DVD Genie to unlock the region protection.
DyDstrysNit Posted November 28, 2001 Author Posted November 28, 2001 Fang--The KB's were (not surprisingly) unhelpful.Lou--I thought about region settings and have verified that it's set to region 1. The DVD is reliable as I've used it on many other systems. It's the one I keep in my office for testing DVD drives.I'm losing my starry-eyed view of the new media player. It seems like there's a lot of crap to go through to get it to do what it's supposed to be made for. Is this Linux or something? :Elaugh
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