Windows Media player, will not play dvds, it says its a resolution problem?

Question

alright my Windows media use to play dvds. now it has a message that will pop up and say
"Windows Media Player cannot play DVD cideo. Open Display in COntrol Panel, and then lower your screen resolution and coloar quality settings."

my settings are currently at Screen Resolution 800 by 600 pixels and Color Quality is at highest 32(bit)

so what could be wrong?? any advice

Answer 1

get vlc player here...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

it can play dvds

as for your problem ,in display properties ,try
troubleshoot
or advanced

also try
color quality
16...medium
or upgrade to wmp 11
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx

also consider getting nero or sonic

http://www.nero.com/ena/index.html
http://www.sonic.com/

Answer 2

There are few things that could be causing this. Here are a few things you can do to fix this problem.

Before attempting the following check if your DVD Rom came with ANY free DVD players. Just install them as they will also install the DVD playback library and your Drive's drivers for you. Restart and then enjoy the DVD in any software including Windows Media.

If you think you'vedone that then try:

1. Update your Graphics driver
2. Update DirectX (to be on the safe side)
3. Change your screen resolution to 800x600 16 bit.
4. Goto Advanced Video properties (on the same page as the resolution) and select a refresh rate from "show only refresh rates that the monitor can support", choose one which is nominal, lower the better but not below 60Hz.
5. On the same advanced properties look for Hardware acceleration and make sure it is at Maximum.
6. Also in same Advanced properties; see if "wrte combing" is Checked. if it is Uncheck it and try , else Check it again if it doesnt make a difference.
7. Make sure you have enough memory, turn off programs and backgroups apps you are not using when playing the DVD, the memory may be starving becuase of them.
8. Make sure you DVD ROM drive drivers are loaded properly (refer to system property->hardware setup for this)

ALTERNATIVELY

You can simply download and try playing the DVD with this program "VideoLan VLC" found at http://www.videolan.org. If it works then you don't have to worry about the rest of the things above.

Feel free to reach me by email.

Answer 3

not true you have to have a dvd player on your computer like nero or one of a hundred others that can be found online i have two of them and they are good to have microsoft has alot of sites they can show you where you can get free trials and then you have to pay for them after that. i bought cyberlink power dvd player and it works great just one idea for you to think of nothing is really free online there are alot of things that are but mostly just free radio stations and so on well hope that helps over and out

Answer 4

Try real player

Answer 5

lower ur qual settings --16bit-- coz ur video card is choking ... u need a better one prolly ... u could try updating ur video driver ..

Answer 6

change it to 1024x768 32bit