Unable to play CD,DVD

[brummyfan]

I have Pentium3 PC with OS WinXP installed recently, I am unable to play CD
and DVD. When I had Win98SE everything worked fine but after installing XP I
am having problem. When I checked the Device Manager I can see the drives
for my Pioneer CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, but when I insert the CD or DVD nothing
happens and I see some files named VCD,CDI, MPEG I am unable to do anything
with them.
Please could someone help me what to do.
Thank you in advance.

[Sister Mary[_2_]]

"brummyfan" > wrote in message
...
>I have Pentium3 PC with OS WinXP installed recently, I am unable to play CD
> and DVD. When I had Win98SE everything worked fine but after installing XP
> I
> am having problem. When I checked the Device Manager I can see the drives
> for my Pioneer CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, but when I insert the CD or DVD nothing
> happens and I see some files named VCD,CDI, MPEG I am unable to do
> anything
> with them.
> Please could someone help me what to do.
> Thank you in advance.

For DVD's you need to install a decoder.
http://tinyurl.com/yo3rnv
http://www.updatexp.com/dvd-decoder-media-player-windows.html

When you say also you cannot play CD's do you mean
just VCD's that are composed of MPEG1 or all CD's
including audio?
Whatever, you need codecs for playback media files:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec
Read the guides first:
http://www.free-codecs.com/

[brummyfan]

"Sister Mary" wrote:

>
> "brummyfan" > wrote in message
> ...
> >I have Pentium3 PC with OS WinXP installed recently, I am unable to play CD
> > and DVD. When I had Win98SE everything worked fine but after installing XP
> > I
> > am having problem. When I checked the Device Manager I can see the drives
> > for my Pioneer CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, but when I insert the CD or DVD nothing
> > happens and I see some files named VCD,CDI, MPEG I am unable to do
> > anything
> > with them.
> > Please could someone help me what to do.
> > Thank you in advance.
>
> For DVD's you need to install a decoder.
> http://tinyurl.com/yo3rnv
> http://www.updatexp.com/dvd-decoder-media-player-windows.html
>
> When you say also you cannot play CD's do you mean
> just VCD's that are composed of MPEG1 or all CD's
> including audio?
> Whatever, you need codecs for playback media files:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec
> Read the guides first:
> http://www.free-codecs.com/
>
>
> Thank you sistermary
It was a very helpful suggestion and it worked for me. Thanks again for your
time and effort.

[Sister Mary[_2_]]

"brummyfan" > wrote in message
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>
>
> "Sister Mary" wrote:
>
>>
>> "brummyfan" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >I have Pentium3 PC with OS WinXP installed recently, I am unable to play
>> >CD
>> > and DVD. When I had Win98SE everything worked fine but after installing
>> > XP
>> > I
>> > am having problem. When I checked the Device Manager I can see the
>> > drives
>> > for my Pioneer CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, but when I insert the CD or DVD
>> > nothing
>> > happens and I see some files named VCD,CDI, MPEG I am unable to do
>> > anything
>> > with them.
>> > Please could someone help me what to do.
>> > Thank you in advance.
>>
>> For DVD's you need to install a decoder.
>> http://tinyurl.com/yo3rnv
>> http://www.updatexp.com/dvd-decoder-media-player-windows.html
>>
>> When you say also you cannot play CD's do you mean
>> just VCD's that are composed of MPEG1 or all CD's
>> including audio?
>> Whatever, you need codecs for playback media files:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec
>> Read the guides first:
>> http://www.free-codecs.com/
>>
>>
>> Thank you sistermary
> It was a very helpful suggestion and it worked for me. Thanks again for
> your
> time and effort.

And thank you for the feedback.