Last night I was capping something and my drive was working fine. I finished doing what I was doing and went to watch a dvd later on. Now, when I tried to watch the DVD for some reason it wasn't playing properly. The sound is all distorted and the images are all weird, it's as if the computer is running slow when it's playing...when it's not. The picture kinda slows then speeds up. Now, I know that it's not the DVD because I have tried numerous. I think maybe the lens has gone or it may be something to do with the way the drive reads the DVDs.
When I try and put the DVD say in windows media player of real player I get the message that the player cannot play the DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card.
Can anyone help?
2007-03-19 10:16:57 · 6 answers · asked by wacky_katie2003 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I don't have Vista...I have XP
2007-03-19 10:25:51 · update #1
That sounds like a Windows Vista problem.
If you are using XP then it not likely a DRM issue although Windows update does make changes to your system and Microsoft may have recently added something to the XP updates that could cause that to happen.
Try using Divx player to play your DVD.
It is free and will play just about anything.
2007-03-19 10:24:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try FREE AVS DVD Player. http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/avs-dvd-player.htm
AVS DVD Player is a compact and easy-to-use program that has a simple user-friendly interface allowing you to start watching DVD movies with no additional software.
Support for a very wide variety of video formats: apart from regular DVD (PAL, NTSC, VCD, SVCD) formats, also supported are: the entire range of MPEG4 (including DivX, XviD, etc.), MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, Real Media video, Quick Time files, WMV files (including WMV-HD), H.263, H.264, mobile video formats (3GP, 3GP2, MP4).
2007-03-20 03:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Capuccino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I trust Rob - how a lot RAM do you've? once you've any additonal valuable factors operating in XP it fairly needs 512MB RAM to run effectively. also verify your DVD software - what software are you utilizing to play the DVD - living house windows media participant is avergae (needs lots of formats to play something). i'd advise downloading "ability DVD" or an same participant it extremely is desined to play DVD's. a very good low-cost free participant is the VLC media participant - it ought to load it up strong.
2016-11-26 23:03:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difficult one to be precise about, but it sounds like it could be a driver that needs updating. I have seen similar problems and it was fixed by installing all the latest drivers for the hardware in the machine.
2007-03-19 10:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by Mike C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try to clean the DVD and clean the drive
2007-03-26 23:22:52 · answer #5 · answered by The shadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it working but slow or not working at all?
2007-03-25 03:02:50 · answer #6 · answered by Basil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋