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DVD player problem
Using WinXP. I like to play my DVDs with VLC Media Player--and with the help
of people in this newsgroup I was able to make it my default player and to use Autoplay, so that when I inserted a DVD into my drive, VLC Media Player opened and began playing the DVD. Today I played two of three DVDs in a newly purchased set the usual way. However, when I inserted the third DVD, Cyberlink PowerDVD opened it instead. I exited the program and opened the drive. I then went to Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the drive, clicked on Properties, clicked on Autoplay, chose DVD movies, clicked on VLC, and clicked OK. Then I reinserted the DVD into the drive and tried again. And again it opened with PowerDVD. I removed that DVD from the drive and put in one of the earlier ones--and it opened in VLC Media Player. I put the "bad" one back in, and it opened in PowerDVD. I bought this DVD set from an Amazon third party. It's supposed to be brand new. Any idea of what's happening--and what I can do to fix the problem? Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
Using WinXP. I like to play my DVDs with VLC Media Player--and with the help of people in this newsgroup I was able to make it my default player and to use Autoplay, so that when I inserted a DVD into my drive, VLC Media Player opened and began playing the DVD. Today I played two of three DVDs in a newly purchased set the usual way. However, when I inserted the third DVD, Cyberlink PowerDVD opened it instead. I exited the program and opened the drive. I then went to Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the drive, clicked on Properties, clicked on Autoplay, chose DVD movies, clicked on VLC, and clicked OK. Then I reinserted the DVD into the drive and tried again. And again it opened with PowerDVD. I removed that DVD from the drive and put in one of the earlier ones--and it opened in VLC Media Player. I put the "bad" one back in, and it opened in PowerDVD. I bought this DVD set from an Amazon third party. It's supposed to be brand new. Any idea of what's happening--and what I can do to fix the problem? Since the other DVDs still play the way you want them to, it means that this particular DVD is not being recognized as "DVD movies", but as some other type, where the association is not with VLC, but with CyberLink. Open the Autoplay properties again, and check to see what other types are associated with CyberLink. If there are any, change them to VLC too. (Is it actually a DVD? It could be recognized as "Video Files". Or it might be a mixed media disk - containing other file types as well - music, pictures, programs.) -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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... Jo-Anne wrote: Using WinXP. I like to play my DVDs with VLC Media Player--and with the help of people in this newsgroup I was able to make it my default player and to use Autoplay, so that when I inserted a DVD into my drive, VLC Media Player opened and began playing the DVD. Today I played two of three DVDs in a newly purchased set the usual way. However, when I inserted the third DVD, Cyberlink PowerDVD opened it instead. I exited the program and opened the drive. I then went to Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the drive, clicked on Properties, clicked on Autoplay, chose DVD movies, clicked on VLC, and clicked OK. Then I reinserted the DVD into the drive and tried again. And again it opened with PowerDVD. I removed that DVD from the drive and put in one of the earlier ones--and it opened in VLC Media Player. I put the "bad" one back in, and it opened in PowerDVD. I bought this DVD set from an Amazon third party. It's supposed to be brand new. Any idea of what's happening--and what I can do to fix the problem? Since the other DVDs still play the way you want them to, it means that this particular DVD is not being recognized as "DVD movies", but as some other type, where the association is not with VLC, but with CyberLink. Open the Autoplay properties again, and check to see what other types are associated with CyberLink. If there are any, change them to VLC too. (Is it actually a DVD? It could be recognized as "Video Files". Or it might be a mixed media disk - containing other file types as well - music, pictures, programs.) -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. Thank you for the advice, Patok! It didn't work, though. I chose VLC for all the associations offered. There were three where it didn't show up--Pictures, Mixed Content, and HD DVD. For those three I chose "No Action." But when I put the DVD into the drive again, it started with PowerDVD. One other note: Among the Autoplay choices for "DVD Movie" is "Play DVD Video using PowerDVD." I definitely chose "Play DVD Movie using VLC" in that section. But why is DVD Video even mentioned there? If that might be the problem, is there a way to eliminate that choice? It's the only place under Autoplay that PowerDVD is mentioned. Thank you again! Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
"Patok" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: Using WinXP. I like to play my DVDs with VLC Media Player--and with the help of people in this newsgroup I was able to make it my default player and to use Autoplay, so that when I inserted a DVD into my drive, VLC Media Player opened and began playing the DVD. Today I played two of three DVDs in a newly purchased set the usual way. However, when I inserted the third DVD, Cyberlink PowerDVD opened it instead. I exited the program and opened the drive. I then went to Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the drive, clicked on Properties, clicked on Autoplay, chose DVD movies, clicked on VLC, and clicked OK. Then I reinserted the DVD into the drive and tried again. And again it opened with PowerDVD. I removed that DVD from the drive and put in one of the earlier ones--and it opened in VLC Media Player. I put the "bad" one back in, and it opened in PowerDVD. I bought this DVD set from an Amazon third party. It's supposed to be brand new. Any idea of what's happening--and what I can do to fix the problem? Since the other DVDs still play the way you want them to, it means that this particular DVD is not being recognized as "DVD movies", but as some other type, where the association is not with VLC, but with CyberLink. Open the Autoplay properties again, and check to see what other types are associated with CyberLink. If there are any, change them to VLC too. (Is it actually a DVD? It could be recognized as "Video Files". Or it might be a mixed media disk - containing other file types as well - music, pictures, programs.) -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. Thank you for the advice, Patok! It didn't work, though. I chose VLC for all the associations offered. There were three where it didn't show up--Pictures, Mixed Content, and HD DVD. For those three I chose "No Action." But when I put the DVD into the drive again, it started with PowerDVD. One other note: Among the Autoplay choices for "DVD Movie" is "Play DVD Video using PowerDVD." I definitely chose "Play DVD Movie using VLC" in that section. But why is DVD Video even mentioned there? If that might be the problem, is there a way to eliminate that choice? It's the only place under Autoplay that PowerDVD is mentioned. Thank you again! Jo-Anne I find PowerDVD to be annoying in that regard. When you install PowerDVD, it has a startup item that runs, and that is what is "watching" the DVD drive, for movies. So it doesn't have to play by the rules, and can ignore some of the other techniques. Using Sysinternals "autoruns", I can see an entry for PDVDServ.exe belonging to Cyberlink Corp. There are tick boxes in the autoruns window, and one of those will allow you to turn off PDVDServ.exe, so it won't be launched on the next boot. You may also be able to find it in Task Manager. Kill PDVDServ then insert the movie disc, and see if VLC gets to play it. A more permanent solution, is to zap the startup of that thing, via autoruns. Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902 Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: "Patok" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: Using WinXP. I like to play my DVDs with VLC Media Player--and with the help of people in this newsgroup I was able to make it my default player and to use Autoplay, so that when I inserted a DVD into my drive, VLC Media Player opened and began playing the DVD. Today I played two of three DVDs in a newly purchased set the usual way. However, when I inserted the third DVD, Cyberlink PowerDVD opened it instead. I exited the program and opened the drive. I then went to Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the drive, clicked on Properties, clicked on Autoplay, chose DVD movies, clicked on VLC, and clicked OK. Then I reinserted the DVD into the drive and tried again. And again it opened with PowerDVD. I removed that DVD from the drive and put in one of the earlier ones--and it opened in VLC Media Player. I put the "bad" one back in, and it opened in PowerDVD. I bought this DVD set from an Amazon third party. It's supposed to be brand new. Any idea of what's happening--and what I can do to fix the problem? Since the other DVDs still play the way you want them to, it means that this particular DVD is not being recognized as "DVD movies", but as some other type, where the association is not with VLC, but with CyberLink. Open the Autoplay properties again, and check to see what other types are associated with CyberLink. If there are any, change them to VLC too. (Is it actually a DVD? It could be recognized as "Video Files". Or it might be a mixed media disk - containing other file types as well - music, pictures, programs.) -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. Thank you for the advice, Patok! It didn't work, though. I chose VLC for all the associations offered. There were three where it didn't show up--Pictures, Mixed Content, and HD DVD. For those three I chose "No Action." But when I put the DVD into the drive again, it started with PowerDVD. One other note: Among the Autoplay choices for "DVD Movie" is "Play DVD Video using PowerDVD." I definitely chose "Play DVD Movie using VLC" in that section. But why is DVD Video even mentioned there? If that might be the problem, is there a way to eliminate that choice? It's the only place under Autoplay that PowerDVD is mentioned. Thank you again! Jo-Anne I find PowerDVD to be annoying in that regard. When you install PowerDVD, it has a startup item that runs, and that is what is "watching" the DVD drive, for movies. So it doesn't have to play by the rules, and can ignore some of the other techniques. Using Sysinternals "autoruns", I can see an entry for PDVDServ.exe belonging to Cyberlink Corp. There are tick boxes in the autoruns window, and one of those will allow you to turn off PDVDServ.exe, so it won't be launched on the next boot. You may also be able to find it in Task Manager. Kill PDVDServ then insert the movie disc, and see if VLC gets to play it. A more permanent solution, is to zap the startup of that thing, via autoruns. Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902 Paul Thank you, Paul! I wonder if the best solution might be to remove the PowerDVD program entirely--or perhaps, less drastically, to rename the PDVDServ.exe file. (I saw that file earlier. I tried renaming the main program, but all that did was stop anything from happening when the DVD was inserted.) I never use PowerDVD; I think it came with my laptop. I do have Autoruns installed, so I could go that route. But is there any reason to keep PowerDVD on my computer? Thank you again, Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902 Paul Thank you, Paul! I wonder if the best solution might be to remove the PowerDVD program entirely--or perhaps, less drastically, to rename the PDVDServ.exe file. (I saw that file earlier. I tried renaming the main program, but all that did was stop anything from happening when the DVD was inserted.) I never use PowerDVD; I think it came with my laptop. I do have Autoruns installed, so I could go that route. But is there any reason to keep PowerDVD on my computer? Thank you again, Jo-Anne I don't see a problem keeping it installed. You can still start the program manually, if you want to use it to view content, and I presume it still works that way. Disabling PDVDServ is just to keep it from being too "greedy". Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: "Paul" wrote in message Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902 Paul Thank you, Paul! I wonder if the best solution might be to remove the PowerDVD program entirely--or perhaps, less drastically, to rename the PDVDServ.exe file. (I saw that file earlier. I tried renaming the main program, but all that did was stop anything from happening when the DVD was inserted.) I never use PowerDVD; I think it came with my laptop. I do have Autoruns installed, so I could go that route. But is there any reason to keep PowerDVD on my computer? Thank you again, Jo-Anne I don't see a problem keeping it installed. You can still start the program manually, if you want to use it to view content, and I presume it still works that way. Disabling PDVDServ is just to keep it from being too "greedy". Paul Thank you again, Paul! Here's an interesting development. I stopped the PDVDServ process with Task Manager and inserted the disc again. This time, what came up was an attempt to install HotLlama Media Player. I refused the installation and Googled that program--and found that someone else had had the same thing happen when his kids were watching a DVD of the same series that I've been watching. What on earth is going on??? Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: "Paul" wrote in message Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902 Paul Thank you, Paul! I wonder if the best solution might be to remove the PowerDVD program entirely--or perhaps, less drastically, to rename the PDVDServ.exe file. (I saw that file earlier. I tried renaming the main program, but all that did was stop anything from happening when the DVD was inserted.) I never use PowerDVD; I think it came with my laptop. I do have Autoruns installed, so I could go that route. But is there any reason to keep PowerDVD on my computer? Thank you again, Jo-Anne I don't see a problem keeping it installed. You can still start the program manually, if you want to use it to view content, and I presume it still works that way. Disabling PDVDServ is just to keep it from being too "greedy". Paul Thank you again, Paul! Here's an interesting development. I stopped the PDVDServ process with Task Manager and inserted the disc again. This time, what came up was an attempt to install HotLlama Media Player. I refused the installation and Googled that program--and found that someone else had had the same thing happen when his kids were watching a DVD of the same series that I've been watching. What on earth is going on??? Thank you! Jo-Anne So is that program on the DVD itself, and triggered by an autorun.inf file on the DVD ? I'd be examining the DVD to see how it is constructed. http://forums.techguy.org/virus-othe...lama-hell.html "I found out from Llama that some DVD come with hotllama on them. How nice of them! " So it's possible this is executing from the DVD itself. ******* This "tome" happens to have a couple "Fixit" files part way down. There are also some pre-requisite installs. "How to disable the Autorun functionality in Windows" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715 Will there be side effects from doing that ? Not if you've set a System Restore point, done a backup, or used other forms of insurance... If you've done such, you can always roll back the system if you don't like the results. As it is, I'm wondering if the hotllama thing has made a home for itself on your hard drive. Paul |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
Thank you again, Paul! Here's an interesting development. I stopped the PDVDServ process with Task Manager and inserted the disc again. This time, what came up was an attempt to install HotLlama Media Player. I refused the installation and Googled that program--and found that someone else had had the same thing happen when his kids were watching a DVD of the same series that I've been watching. What on earth is going on??? What's going on is you're beginning to see why some of us (I don't know if Paul is among us, hope so ) have disabled auto-run and auto-play and anything auto on our machines. When I insert a CD/DVD, I don't want it to start playing or executing or whatever; *I* want to be in control. I am fully competent to start the application I know will do what I need; I don't trust Windows to decide instead of me. Unfortunately, this is not a solution for everybody; some people are really computer illiterate and have no other recourse. This exposes them to the Sony rootkit and to what you experienced, but they have no other options. You, however, seem literate enough to be able to choose for yourself; I don't presuppose to give you advice, but consider disabling any and all autoruns on your computer, and starting the programs you want manually. As to that particular HotLlama annoyance - sorry, can't help. Never (obviously) seen it. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... Jo-Anne wrote: "Paul" wrote in message Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902 Paul Thank you, Paul! I wonder if the best solution might be to remove the PowerDVD program entirely--or perhaps, less drastically, to rename the PDVDServ.exe file. (I saw that file earlier. I tried renaming the main program, but all that did was stop anything from happening when the DVD was inserted.) I never use PowerDVD; I think it came with my laptop. I do have Autoruns installed, so I could go that route. But is there any reason to keep PowerDVD on my computer? Thank you again, Jo-Anne I don't see a problem keeping it installed. You can still start the program manually, if you want to use it to view content, and I presume it still works that way. Disabling PDVDServ is just to keep it from being too "greedy". Paul Thank you again, Paul! Here's an interesting development. I stopped the PDVDServ process with Task Manager and inserted the disc again. This time, what came up was an attempt to install HotLlama Media Player. I refused the installation and Googled that program--and found that someone else had had the same thing happen when his kids were watching a DVD of the same series that I've been watching. What on earth is going on??? Thank you! Jo-Anne So is that program on the DVD itself, and triggered by an autorun.inf file on the DVD ? I'd be examining the DVD to see how it is constructed. http://forums.techguy.org/virus-othe...lama-hell.html "I found out from Llama that some DVD come with hotllama on them. How nice of them! " So it's possible this is executing from the DVD itself. ******* This "tome" happens to have a couple "Fixit" files part way down. There are also some pre-requisite installs. "How to disable the Autorun functionality in Windows" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715 Will there be side effects from doing that ? Not if you've set a System Restore point, done a backup, or used other forms of insurance... If you've done such, you can always roll back the system if you don't like the results. As it is, I'm wondering if the hotllama thing has made a home for itself on your hard drive. Paul I don't think it has, since I stopped the installation and haven't had it show up again. From what I can tell, there's something on the particular DVD that needs HotLlama to run it--or perhaps PowerDVD has that ability too, since that's the first thing the DVD wants to use. In any case, no other DVD in that series or in later series has made any attempt to install the program. I will check for an installation file on the one DVD, though. If it's there, should I be able to remove it easily? Usually, I don't have trouble removing installation files... Jo-Anne |
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"Patok" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: Thank you again, Paul! Here's an interesting development. I stopped the PDVDServ process with Task Manager and inserted the disc again. This time, what came up was an attempt to install HotLlama Media Player. I refused the installation and Googled that program--and found that someone else had had the same thing happen when his kids were watching a DVD of the same series that I've been watching. What on earth is going on??? What's going on is you're beginning to see why some of us (I don't know if Paul is among us, hope so ) have disabled auto-run and auto-play and anything auto on our machines. When I insert a CD/DVD, I don't want it to start playing or executing or whatever; *I* want to be in control. I am fully competent to start the application I know will do what I need; I don't trust Windows to decide instead of me. Unfortunately, this is not a solution for everybody; some people are really computer illiterate and have no other recourse. This exposes them to the Sony rootkit and to what you experienced, but they have no other options. You, however, seem literate enough to be able to choose for yourself; I don't presuppose to give you advice, but consider disabling any and all autoruns on your computer, and starting the programs you want manually. As to that particular HotLlama annoyance - sorry, can't help. Never (obviously) seen it. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. Thank you, Patok! I've reached the point of wanting to disable AutoPlay. Is there a global way to do this, or will I need to do it for every type of file on every drive? Looking at Properties of my DVD drive, for example, under AutoPlay, for each file type (Music, Pictures, DVD Movies, etc.), I can choose either "Select an Action to Perform" or "Prompt me each time to choose an action." If this is where I would turn off AutoPlay, what's the best way to do it? Should I choose "Select an Action" and then pick "Take no action" as my choice for each file type? Or should I choose "Prompt me each time..."? Thank you again! Jo-Anne |
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Patok wrote:
Jo-Anne wrote: Thank you again, Paul! Here's an interesting development. I stopped the PDVDServ process with Task Manager and inserted the disc again. This time, what came up was an attempt to install HotLlama Media Player. I refused the installation and Googled that program--and found that someone else had had the same thing happen when his kids were watching a DVD of the same series that I've been watching. What on earth is going on??? What's going on is you're beginning to see why some of us (I don't know if Paul is among us, hope so ) have disabled auto-run and auto-play and anything auto on our machines. When I insert a CD/DVD, I don't want it to start playing or executing or whatever; *I* want to be in control. I am fully competent to start the application I know will do what I need; I don't trust Windows to decide instead of me. Unfortunately, this is not a solution for everybody; some people are really computer illiterate and have no other recourse. This exposes them to the Sony rootkit and to what you experienced, but they have no other options. You, however, seem literate enough to be able to choose for yourself; I don't presuppose to give you advice, but consider disabling any and all autoruns on your computer, and starting the programs you want manually. As to that particular HotLlama annoyance - sorry, can't help. Never (obviously) seen it. +1 I hate "auto-anything". Especially mechanisms that allow installs, root kits or the like. It should be up to the user to initiate things like that. Paul |
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Jo-Anne wrote: Thank you, Patok! I've reached the point of wanting to disable AutoPlay. Is there a global way to do this, or will I need to do it for every type of file on every drive? The easiest way Jo-Anne, is through TweakUI. My Computer AutoPlay Drives Now unselect A through Z. And while you are there, just under Drives is Types. Unselect those too. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , Jo-Anne wrote: Thank you, Patok! I've reached the point of wanting to disable AutoPlay. Is there a global way to do this, or will I need to do it for every type of file on every drive? The easiest way Jo-Anne, is through TweakUI. My Computer AutoPlay Drives Now unselect A through Z. And while you are there, just under Drives is Types. Unselect those too. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 Thank you, Bill! I do have TweakUI installed. I'll give this a try and will report back. Jo-Anne |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , Jo-Anne wrote: Thank you, Patok! I've reached the point of wanting to disable AutoPlay. Is there a global way to do this, or will I need to do it for every type of file on every drive? The easiest way Jo-Anne, is through TweakUI. My Computer AutoPlay Drives Now unselect A through Z. And while you are there, just under Drives is Types. Unselect those too. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 So...here's what happened. I unselected all the drives and both of the drive types in TweakUI. I then inserted a normal DVD into its drive, and it worked as it should. That is, it spun and then stopped and nothing more happened. After that, I inserted the "bad" DVD, and it immediately opened PowerDVD. I exited PowerDVD and used Windows Explorer to see what was on this DVD. The other DVD in the series had only one folder--VIDEO_TS. The bad DVD has the VIDEO_TS folder, but it also has a folder labeled DVDROM with several subfolders and several executable files (I did a screenprint of each folder, so I can say exactly what files are in them). Given that I probably want to continue viewing the DVD itself, would it be reasonable to try "stopping" everything in the DVDROM folder? Perhaps I could rename it to DVDROMbak? I welcome your suggestions! Jo-Anne |
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