Re: DVDs won't play.


Right, all of them have different Macrovision implementations, if I recall
correctly. I would not be surprised if Microsoft, which people enjoy suing
much the same way you and me might enjoy "having breakfast", has a more
paranoid implementation of that support. This is especially true in that
you imply that this worked "before", and WMP certainly doesn't change
between those two states.

Your video card drivers, however, most probably did. Which video card do
you have? Which driver version do you have?

If it is a problem in Windows Media Player to you - where would you feel
that issue lies?

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"Adam" <Adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not using any cable to connect the monitor to the pc. I'm on a laptop.
I'm quite certain that the problem has NOTHING to do with hardware as all
of
these things worked fine two weeks ago before I had to re-format my hard
drive and re-install everything on my laptop because of a system hang that
I
couldn't fix. Moreover. ALL of these things (playing DVDs, playing ALL
.mpg
files, etc.) work just fine using other software (Intervideo DVD,
quicktime
player, divx player, and Realplayer). The problem is clearly with Windows
Media Player.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


Oftentimes vendors will have updates available on their web site that
aren't
available on Windows Update yet, as there's a process they need to go
through to get them up there.

What connection cable type are you using to connect the PC to the
monitor?

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"Adam" <Adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm on an HP Pavilion laptop with Intel Graphics accelerator Media
card. I
tried to do a windows update and search for hardware updates but none
was
available. Besides, the DVDs play fine in Intervideo's native DVD
player
that
I have installed so I have a hard time believing the video card could
be
the
problem. It's the same video card with the same drivers that was
installed
before I did the PC Recovery and everything worked fine.

"Dale" wrote:

Did you try updating the driver for your video card?

Dale


"Adam" wrote:

I recently had to do a PC recovery as a result of a system hang.
When I
got
everything up and running, I found that Media Player would no longer
play
many .mpg files and gave the following error message when attempting
to
play
DVDs in Media Player: "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD
because
there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD
drive,
decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your
video
card."

I downloaded the Intervideo DVD XPack, which is supposed to make it
possible
to play DVDs in Media Player. However, I still get the same error
message
when attempting to play DVDs. I know there is nothing wrong with the
hardware
or the codecs because DVDs play fine in the Intervideo DVD player
and
.mpg
files that won't play in Media Player will play just fine in
RealPlayer
and
Quicktime player. I am also now unable to convert tv tuner
recordings
from
.mpg format to .wmv to be played on my Creative Zen using the
Creative
video
converter included with the Zen. This also was not a problem before
the
PC
Recovery. What is wrong with Media Player and how do I fix it?





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