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

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.

"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

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

"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

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