DVD's Won't play

Macker

I just installed a DVD rom and the problem is it won't play the damn things ,puter just hangs when I insert a dvd ,
so I swapped the DVD rom with one in another puter and that won't work either ,but the new one will work in the second computer so I think we can rule out the DVD rom itself.....any ideas.

TIA

running win me
256 ram
DVD =master
burner=slave
Matrox MGA-G200 graphics


Macker

leeroybrown

This is a bit of a guess, but maybe there is a problem/conflict with either the drivers or the software you have installed for the Drive.

DadaKopf

Master/Slave problem maybe.

Bard

eh... are you saying dvd-roms wont work or movies wont work or both?

are -both- PC's running Windows ME? What movie software (if any) are you using? Is the DVD drive correctly identified at the P.O.S.T. ? What brand & speed is the drive?

tribble

Are you running Win 2000/Xp if so check your DVD playback software...

I just got a new one which would install but not play in win 2 k.
(Creative 12x encore (Panasonic 1240e rebadged)).

just a thought...

Macker

Running WIM ME on both boxes
Tried 3 different players,
Inter video win DVD,
Xing DVD player,
and Micro DVD Player.

DVD is a Toshiba SD-M1102
Burner is a Creative 8X4X32

DVD won't play at all puter just hangs when I try to play one ,even takes about 30 secs to open the DVD tray ,works fine for installing software etc..

Macker

Bard

hmm... works fine for installing software, - so therefore it points at it being a problem with not having enough cache space or memory to handle video playback or having shite DVD player software.

More questions!

Is your hard drive nearly full or rapidly running out of space?

Is there a lot of memory used up on your computer (by TSR's, etc.)?

Have you tried Cyberlink PowerDVD?

Have you configured your DVD drive to the highest speed in device manager?

Macker

Thanks for taking the time bard

mem turbo tells me I have 200 mb free ram
5 gigs free on C
7 Gigs free on D

havn't tried cyber link DVD just the 3 mentioned above'

Havn't tried to configure it at all just let windows pick it up.

Macker

_CreeD_

Make sure DMA is set for the Drive.
Try it as the only drive on the cable.
Try copying a DVD movie to the Hard drive (use something CladMdc to do it) and play it from there, if it still doesn't work then I'd look to DirectX/Video drivers.

If I remember rightly WinDvd used to have problems with Older Toshiba drives. Have a look for the update Firmware for the drive and install it.

Gerry

If you have a via motherboard get the latest via 4-in-1 drivers from www.viahardware.com, otherwise dma won't work.

Bard

No probs, Macker... but I'm a bit stumped about it now...

...unless it's your graphics card or other drivers.

Try updating the firmware (as suggested above) and getting the latest version of your graphics card drivers, DirectX, any hardware accelleration app's, etc.

hold up... I don't believe you've told us the processor speed yet... if that's too low you may be screwed.

WhiteWashMan

hmmm, i think the problem is to do with the drives themselves.
i have a problem with my dvd working when i put it on , as creed says, dma setting.
try pushing it over to PIO mode and see how that goes.

can you actually browse the dvd in explorer?
do you have any problems wth normal cd-roms?

Macker

PIII 500 is the processor
I've just discovered it's reading Audio CDs as one track ????

I'll have a dig for updated drivers and firmware.

Macker

Macker

Good news folks

upgraded graphics drivers and got it working
Although it still hangs when I insert the DVD so I have to hit ctrl-alt- del to stop the DVD player and then open the player and start it manually....in other words it's probly a problem with auto play in the softawre....so I'm off to find Power DVD 4.0 which I'm told is the best out there....unless you know better :-)

thanks for the help folks

Macker

Bard

You should be able to disable the autoplay feature within Windows itself. Don't remember exactly where it is, but it's something along the lines of "Auto Insert Notification".

...and yes, - from what I've seen PowerDVD XP 4.0 is definitely the best DVD player software out there. I use it all the time.

Snaga

Or hold down the shift key when you insert a cd/dvd until the light on the drive stops and it will not auto run.