DVD

[LINDA DARNELL]

I HAVE TRYED EVERYTHING- BUT MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA PLAYER
WILL NOT PLAY DVDS. THE DVD TAB ON THE MEDIA PLAYER-YOU
CAN NOT CLICK ON TO EVEN PLAY A DVD. WHEN I PUT A DVD IN -
NOTHING HAPPENS. I HAVE INSTALL DIFFERENT DRVIER AND
OTHING THINGS THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO HELP. I WISH SOME ONE
COULD HELP ME. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR -AT LEAST
3 YEARS NOW! CAN YOU HELP. THANK YOU LINDA

[Sharon F]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 04:49:12 -0800, LINDA DARNELL wrote:

> I HAVE TRYED EVERYTHING- BUT MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA PLAYER
> WILL NOT PLAY DVDS. THE DVD TAB ON THE MEDIA PLAYER-YOU
> CAN NOT CLICK ON TO EVEN PLAY A DVD. WHEN I PUT A DVD IN -
> NOTHING HAPPENS. I HAVE INSTALL DIFFERENT DRVIER AND
> OTHING THINGS THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO HELP. I WISH SOME ONE
> COULD HELP ME. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR -AT LEAST
> 3 YEARS NOW! CAN YOU HELP. THANK YOU LINDA

The drive involved has to have DVD capabilities. A plain CDrom drive will
not work. A DVD decoder needs to be installed. Media Player does not
include a default DVD decoder. Usually I install something like ATI's DVD
player or similar to pick up the codecs. If all of those things are in
place, the only things left that would stop a DVD from playing would be a
bad laser in the drive (see device's manual about laser calibration) or bad
media.

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Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows XP Shell/User