dvd reading

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  1. minnes

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    I recently purchased a DVD and tried to play it on my laptop dvd player but it cannot seem to read it. When I go to Windows explorer click on 'E' drive it continually asks me to put a disc in the drive which already has the DVD in it, if i get past this it tells me it's not formatted. Is this some type of DVD format problem?
     
    minnes, Jun 14, 2004
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  2. brian100

    brian100 Guest

    Do your other DVD's play ok on your laptop?
     
    brian100, Jun 14, 2004
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  3. colw

    colw Active member

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    Do you have a program such as Power DVD or WinDVD installed to play the DVD?

    Windows Media Player will not normally play DVDs without appropriate Codecs.
     
    colw, Jun 14, 2004
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  4. cozza1987

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    Windows Media Player 9 will play DVDs... but if it doesnt read the DVD that doesnt matter at the moment...

    Does normal CD's play in the drive ?
    Is it only 1 particular DVD ?
    Is the Drive actually a DVD-ROM or a CD-ROM ?

    Regards
    CoZZa
     
    cozza1987, Jun 15, 2004
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  5. smsmike

    smsmike Regular member

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    Believe it or not, Windows Media Player 9 will NOT play a DVD unless you have previously installed a program which was designed specifically to play DVD's. Even Windows XP doesn't come stock with all the different (.dll) files required to play DVD's. They're "shared" by Media Player 9 AFTER the user installs them through third party software. You can, however, get the Windows Media Player to play the individual "vts....vob files directly from the VIDEO_TF folder. Of course, that would not be the way to fly for someone not completely familiar with the system. The guy needs a third party DVD Player Program,(or the drivers that Media Player needs) or he is not going to get very far.
     
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    Nephilim Moderator Staff Member

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  7. smsmike

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    Windows XP comes with a couple of different ASPI.dll drivers. GEARaspi.dll will handle nearly anything that a DVD player needs. That still isn't what the system needs to PLAY a DVD. I went through all this a few years ago when I upgraded to XP Pro. I can't, however, remember what's missing that only a third party PLAYER program has. I did a basic search in my System32 driver folder and came up with around 20 different ASPI drivers that are shared by the different programs. Most of them seem to default to the NEROaspi.dll
     
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    WXP doesnt come with ASPI ... which is a big problem for people :)

    A CSS decyrptor and a MPEG2 codec.

    Nero ASPI is for the most part, Nero stuff.

     
    Praetor, Jul 7, 2004
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