Media Player freezes with DVDs

[Sam]

Hi, I'm having an issue with Windows Media Player and
DVDs. When I insert the DVD, the Windows Autoplay menu
pops up and I select Play in Media Player, at which time,
I'm told Media Player has experienced an error and I'm
asked if I would like to send an error report or not
before terminating the program.

I have tried reinstalling my DVD decoders, but it hasn't
helped. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Have you tried reinstalling:

a) DirectX - www.microsoft.com/directX
and
b) Windows Media Player - www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia
--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Sam" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I'm having an issue with Windows Media Player and
> DVDs. When I insert the DVD, the Windows Autoplay menu
> pops up and I select Play in Media Player, at which time,
> I'm told Media Player has experienced an error and I'm
> asked if I would like to send an error report or not
> before terminating the program.
>
> I have tried reinstalling my DVD decoders, but it hasn't
> helped. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

[Sam]

Thanks for the idea; I've tried both, but I'm still
expereiencing a problem.

I would appreciate any further support.

>-----Original Message-----
>Have you tried reinstalling:
>
>a) DirectX - www.microsoft.com/directX
>and
>b) Windows Media Player - www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia
>--
>Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging &
Hardware)
>www.coribright.com
>
>"Sam" > wrote in
message
...
>> Hi, I'm having an issue with Windows Media Player and
>> DVDs. When I insert the DVD, the Windows Autoplay menu
>> pops up and I select Play in Media Player, at which
time,
>> I'm told Media Player has experienced an error and I'm
>> asked if I would like to send an error report or not
>> before terminating the program.
>>
>> I have tried reinstalling my DVD decoders, but it
hasn't
>> helped. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.
>
>
>.
>

[Austin]

I was having the same problem. I downloaded InterVideo WinDVD 6 (that was the default on my computer). It was only a 14-day trial, I uninstalled it, hoping that it would still work, and it did. The download can be found at http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/
Product_Download.jsp?p=WinDVD6 .