Re: Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center

HelpNeeded wrote:
Hello there

We can't play any DVDs on Windows Media Player 11 or Windows Media
Center.

We kept getting error messages like:


This disc is not formatted to play in this region.

This player is incompatible with the region marking of this disc.

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.


The same DVDs could be played using WMP 11 on Windows XP, AVS DVD
player, and Nero Showtime.

We are running Windows Vista Home Premium and have a NVIDIA GeForce
8800 GTS 512 graphic card.

Anyone can help, please?

Thank you.



HelpNeeded
================================
The following free software may be worth a try:

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/

The following articles will be useful also.

How to Fix VLC Media Player in Vista
http://tinyurl.com/5lzmm8
or...
http://tech-buzz.net/2007/05/21/how-to-fix-vlc-media-player-in-vista/

VideoLAN -
Using VLC Player Under Vista
http://tinyurl.com/2r6rrh
or...
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-vlc-player-under-vista/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk


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