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Old July 29th 06, 10:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
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Default commercial dvd's are not working

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!

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Old July 29th 06, 11:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Cari \(MS-MVP\)
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Default commercial dvd's are not working

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.
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Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows


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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!



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Old July 30th 06, 04:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
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Default commercial dvd's are not working

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!


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Old July 30th 06, 07:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Cari \(MS-MVP\)
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Default commercial dvd's are not working

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


wrote in message
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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!




  #5  
Old July 31st 06, 06:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Cari \(MS-MVP\)
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Default commercial dvd's are not working

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!




 




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