dvd playback

Basically, it's like this- I put in a DVD into my computer, and I go to Windows Media Player to play the movie get to the menu it gives you if you have a movie in the computer, like how it shows the movie's chapters in the Library. However, I only get the sound that comes with the movie- I can't...

Hi all! I am new at this. So, the story is... I am unable to watch DVD on my computer as it display wrong colour and some colour missing. So, I download lastest driver from AMD ATI website and install it. The install went okay but when it ask to restart computer. The computer restart then...

Guys Sorry it's me again. Having sorted the sound out I tried playing a DVD and it said the graphics card didn't support the AERO display. Is there anyway round this problem or is there a more up to date driver available? The actual error box says: Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD...

Hey! I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop from Vista Home Premium (Which wasn't the strict origional, as I had to replace the hard disk due to leaving it on my speaker), anyway, I upgraded it from that to Seven Professional using a free license that I was given by Microsoft (Long story).. Apparently...

so i just upgraded to windows 7 and went to play a dvd with windows media player 12-- now before when i was using vista it was wmp 11-- there was an option under playback to 'disable full screen controls' -- when this was turned on if i was in full screen and moved the mouse the scrollbar and...

I'm using Windows 7 Premium Home. I can't sign in yahoo messenger. I tried to install other older versions but it still did not work. Everytime I sign in ym, this table appears: I don't know what wrong is it. Can anyone help me pls? And one more thing, my laptop doesn't have a CD ROM...

Cant seem to play dvds with media player, its the latest version and my dvd drive is set to the correct zone. Stick a movie in and it just doesnt do anything. Any ideas ? Thanks :D

Friend made a DVD of a newscast here in North Van. He burned it onto a DVD on his Mac. I tried to run it on the Windows 7 machine and got this error.... "Windows Media Player can not play the DVD because the disk prohibits playback in your region of the world. You must obtain a disk that is...

I am hoping someone can shed some light on this problem with video playback. Video playback freezes after anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 minutes into a movie. This happens with AVI's as well as DVD's on hard drive. Never happens with streaming video such as Netflix. And, I haven't really...

So here's yet another addition to what seems to be an ever-growing list of drives behaving badly. I've got two DVD drives, neither of which are working properly in 7, the main one being a Lite On (Atapi DVD A DH16A3L) SATA drive. It's a DVD +/- RW Dual Layer that was working perfectly 2 hours...

WMC -- only has sound but no picture (worked in Vista). Hi, Unfortuantely I am having problems with the tv tuner part of WMC. First off here is my setup.. AMD Phenom II x940 ATI Radeon 4890 (w/ latest drivers installed) Hauppage HVR-1800 (w/ latest drivers) Hauppage 950-Q (w/ latest drivers...

Hi.! I am trying to play a DVD video file on my windows 7 windows media player. Since it is a DVD format, the movie is crystal clear (hv tested it on my laptop [vista]). When i play it in windows 7, the movie shows a lot of grains and is not at all clear.! I've even tried a couple of codecs...

I have done a clean install of Windows 7rc on a Toshiba Satellite laptop. When I try to play a DVD on media player it starts loading and then the system freezes / blacks out. I have to reboot. It sometimes does the same when trying to play video files. Also when I try and run the Windows...

I have BD iso playback in Windows7 w/ MC7 w/ MyMovies and PDVD8 and it is great, PDVD8 will play my DVD isos fine too, but when MC7 is in fullscreen autoplay is disabled and Media Player tries to play the DVD, how do I force autoplay of DVD w/ PDVD8 in MC7? ocgw peace

Media Center was installed/setup as wide screen but after playing a DVD it has reverted to 4:3 aspect ratio and I cannot reconfigure. Any ideas?

I'm having a problem with Media Center playing TV from my Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE USB Stick and DVDs from both Media Center and Player. This was all working at one point and I changed absolutely nothing when it started doing this. I currently get the error: "Decoder Error: The video decoder has...

Hi everyone, I installed Win7 64-bit, and everything works fine, except for the fact that neither WMP nor Media Center are able to play DVDs. I mean, DVD movies, of course. If I use VLC, for instance, the DVD plays perfectly. In brief, what happens is the following: I insert the DVD, an autoplay...

I just installed Windows 7 on an aging but slightly upgraded Toshiba Satellite, and so far everything is working very well, seems to be as responsive as WinXp Pro that the laptop came with, takes less time to shut down. I set up a 30GB partition (dual boot) and installed AVG and OpenOffice 3...

Hi, am having problems with loading drivers onto my computer. It's for a printer I had on a different computer using XP (HP Photosmart 1215). I've found that another type of printer driver is compatible (7200), and it's vista, but it won't let me download and install. Once downloaded I try to...

Hi peeps - newbie here Have a new Pentium Dual Core PC with Windows Vista. For one week I was able to rip an audio CD to MP3 with Windows Media Player. Mysteriously now when I...