greyed out boxes?

[David Jones]

Do you have a hardware decoder? A hardware decoder is a
physical card (not a DVD drive, not DVD playing software)
that decodes the DVD video stream from the drive.

If so, what decoder card is it that you have?

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to fix my dvd problem and here is what I'm
>trying to do... configure Windows Media Player to use
the
>hardware decoder:
>In Windows Media Player, click Options on the Tools menu.
>Click the Performance tab, and then click Advanced.
>In the Preferred decoder section, click Hardware.
>Click OK to save this change, and then click OK.
>
>My problem now is that the hardware option is greyed
out.
>How can I fix this?
>.
>