Windows XP DVD Problem

[Alistair Dewar]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with my Samsung DVD Drive (Samsung DVD-ROM SD-606)

I've recently put a clean install of Windows XP Professional on my computer
and I've got both a Samsung DVD Drive, and a Samsung CD-RW Drive.

The Samsung CD-RW Drive is working fine - i've used the built in CD Copier
in Windows XP to put files to CD's etc.

After puting in a DVD in the drive to watch tonight, it came up with the
auto-play options. So I clicked on the Windows Media Player option to watch
it in. The following message, however, appeared as WMP opened:

"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder
is not installed on your computer"

Does anyone have any ideas on this? Or anywhere I could get a fix for this?

Thanks for your help,


Alistair

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

You need a DVD software to view your movies something
like Win DVD, or Pwer DVD in any case it should have came
with your DVD CDROm player, also see link below

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Home.jsp

Alvin


Alistair Dewar wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having a problem with my Samsung DVD Drive (Samsung DVD-ROM SD-606)
>
> I've recently put a clean install of Windows XP Professional on my computer
> and I've got both a Samsung DVD Drive, and a Samsung CD-RW Drive.
>
> The Samsung CD-RW Drive is working fine - i've used the built in CD Copier
> in Windows XP to put files to CD's etc.
>
> After puting in a DVD in the drive to watch tonight, it came up with the
> auto-play options. So I clicked on the Windows Media Player option to watch
> it in. The following message, however, appeared as WMP opened:
>
> "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder
> is not installed on your computer"
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this? Or anywhere I could get a fix for this?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Alistair