commercial dvd's are not working

[bear564@yahoo.com]

Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an
individual application... ie one of the above.
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows


> wrote in message
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> Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
> and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
> recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
> including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
> randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
> programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
> didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
> watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
> and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
> other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
> research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
> on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
> installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
> Thanks!
>

[bear564@yahoo.com]

This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in
my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize
that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in
there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those
programs).

Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
> Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
> find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an
> individual application... ie one of the above.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
> www.coribright.com/Windows
>
>
> > wrote in message
> oups.com...
> > Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
> > and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
> > recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
> > including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
> > randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
> > programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
> > didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
> > watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
> > and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
> > other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
> > research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
> > on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
> > installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
> > Thanks!
> >

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Which DVD decoding software did you use then? Perhaps the nVidia Decoding
package?
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows


> wrote in message
oups.com...
> This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in
> my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize
> that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in
> there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those
> programs).
>
> Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
>> find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an
>> individual application... ie one of the above.
>> --
>> Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
>> www.coribright.com/Windows
>>
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>> > Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
>> > and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
>> > recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
>> > including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
>> > randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
>> > programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
>> > didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
>> > watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
>> > and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
>> > other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
>> > research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
>> > on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
>> > installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

What DVD decoding software did you have installed then? XP does not include
any DVD decoding software. PowerDVD and WinDVD are the most popular but
there are also many others.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



> wrote in message
oups.com...
> This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in
> my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize
> that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in
> there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those
> programs).
>
> Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
>> find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an
>> individual application... ie one of the above.
>> --
>> Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
>> www.coribright.com/Windows
>>
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>> > Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
>> > and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
>> > recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
>> > including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
>> > randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
>> > programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
>> > didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
>> > watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
>> > and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
>> > other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
>> > research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
>> > on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
>> > installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>