DVD-rom won't play films

[williamp]

Hi everyone. Yesterday i stepped into the 21st century and bought a dvd-rom for my PC.

It plays cd-s ok, and CD-ROM's, but when I try and run my newly-recieved DB7 GT DVD, it won't let me run it, saying I need a decoder.

Does anyone know what this is?? Do I need to install something else? I thought that just by buying a dvd that would be enough- why else would I have bought one??

Many thanks,

William

[plotloss]

You need a player, that will install the DVD codecs that its looking for.

Intervideo WinDVD is one of the best IMHO.

Google for it and its just a download away...

Matt

[madasahatter]

Hi.

DVD's just contain a datastream. This is encoded using the MPEG2 codec, and needs to be decoded to provide a picture.

An example of such a player might be WinDVD or PowerDVD - one of which is normally shipped with the drive. Did you have a CD or DVD come with the drive with these programs on?

There might be a free/cheap one available from Tucows, or download.com. It is also possible to acquire these things from various dodgy sources as well (Illegal tho )

Steve

Editted to say: Doh!! Beaten to it

>> Edited by madasahatter on Wednesday 22 January 16:56

[clubsport]

hi William,,,I had this same problem a few months ago..
I asked one of the techy geeks at work & he gave me some power dvd software to download...everything worked fine...do you have access to techies at work?
If not I can try & find the disc he gave me.

[incorrigible]

plotloss said: You need a player, that will install the DVD codecs that its looking for.

Intervideo WinDVD is one of the best IMHO.

Google for it and its just a download away...

Matt

Matt, tell me more, I've got the same problem (upgraded to XP pro, now the fg DVD drive won't play) I tried downloading new drivers but nothing seemed to work

ta,

Ben

[plotloss]

incorrigible said:

plotloss said: You need a player, that will install the DVD codecs that its looking for.

Intervideo WinDVD is one of the best IMHO.

Google for it and its just a download away...

Matt

Matt, tell me more, I've got the same problem (upgraded to XP pro, now the fg DVD drive won't play) I tried downloading new drivers but nothing seemed to work

ta,

Ben

Are you using a NEC DVD drive per chance...?

Matt.

[incorrigible]

plotloss said: Are you using a NEC DVD drive per chance...?

Yeah a 5700, but I tried installing a Samsung one and downloading the drivers for that and it didn't work either

[stc_bennett]

incorrigible said:

plotloss said: Are you using a NEC DVD drive per chance...?

Yeah a 5700, but I tried installing a Samsung one and downloading the drivers for that and it didn't work either

What software are you using??? cause i had to upgrade (new install) to the XP version of the software and everything fine now.

[plotloss]

I know theres an NEC drive that wont report as being incompatible in the prepass but is in fact incompatible when you come to install it.

XP SR1 may fix it, do you have that?

Matt.

[ErnestM]

FYI:

Intervideo (WinDVD people) have an XP pack that you can download for very little money and then integrate DVD movie playback with your windows media player. Keeps you from having to fuss around with a different package for media...

www.intervideo.com

ErnestM

[stc_bennett]

If anyone wants the intervideo xpack i have a copy that you can have for evaluation purposes only

[joust]

stc_bennett said: If anyone wants the intervideo xpack i have a copy that you can have for evaluation purposes only

[williamp]

stc_bennett said: If anyone wants the intervideo xpack i have a copy that you can have for evaluation purposes only

I run win2000. If I can run this on windows 2000 (rather then XP), then I would be very interested in evaluating it.

[incorrigible]

stc_bennett said: What software are you using??? cause i had to upgrade (new install) to the XP version of the software and everything fine now.

I hardly ever use it (as a DVD player) so I don't want to spend money on it. I've got some sort of Zoran dvdsoft thingy but it's too old a version for a free upgrade from the MS or Zoran site

Ho hum

[stc_bennett]

I run windows 2000 as i can get on with windows XP and it dint work i tried. i just use power DVD instead

Steve

Edited to say incorrigible do you want PowerDVD????

williamp said:

I run win2000. If I can run this on windows 2000 (rather then XP), then I would be very interested in evaluating it.

>> Edited by stc_bennett on Thursday 23 January 10:35

[incorrigible]

stc_bennett said: Edited to say incorrigible do you want PowerDVD????

Honestly don't know Plotloss is geting me some sofware, see if that works, may be in touch next week

[stc_bennett]

power DVD is avaliable here

www.daniel-bennett.co.uk/PowerDVD.exe

Steve

PS read the intro screen for S/N