No video on dvd playback WINDOWS 7

[Sick Nasty]

I get no video either in Media Center or Media Player. I do get the audio however. Right now I'm using VLC for my dvd playback. I like the zoom in Media Center though.

Anyone ever had this problem. I'm using 64-bit windows 7.

 

[Mark]

Nope al is good here, try installing some codec packs or Xvid and see if that helps.

Here is a good one to try Shark007.net - Windows 7 Codecs

 

[Sick Nasty]

I installed it. Anything special I need to do? It's still only giving me audio.

my specs
Intel E2200 @ 2.2GHz
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 SLI-Ready Edition 4GB Dual Channel

XFX 8600 GT 512
Creative SB audigy 2
Encore fmltv-fm t tuner

MAXTOR 500 GB SATA
WD 160 GB SATA
WD 320 GB SATA


NEC 3550 DVD-RW
Sony DVD-ROM DDU 1612

 

[mhealy]

I haven't had any problems with any of my disks but like I just posted in another thread it might be worthwhile to try anydvd from slysoft. You can get a time limited trial off of their site just to see if it solves your problem. No guarentees though, it will only help if the problem is the disk copyright protection.

 

[devScott]

In vista I had a similar problem and it was due to the video driver. If you set the video card hardware acceleration from "Full" down one notch it would work. Unfortunately, I am having the same problem on Windows 7 64bit on a mac mini (intel 945 integrated - gma950 video). Unfortunately the button is greyed out. I am investigating it at the moment.

Hope that helps.

 

[OVERSOUL]

this could be only because i have the x32 version (too accustomed to 32 bit systems to even try x64, though i am regretting it) but i have had no problems, im actually glad that they included a DVD player in the beta, considereing in XP i had to use a workaround. if it plays the audio, i have no idea why it would not play video, it could be something with your video card, but im not an expert, yet.

 

[devScott]

well, I have had this probelm on both 32 and 64 bit machines. It is definately a combination of video hardware/driver issues. My previous media centre machine worked fine until intel release a driver update that prevented the display on SOME video files encoded with divx but not all.

I checked different versions of divx encoding but never found a full solution. unfortunately the crap minis dont have a good/updated video. I never had this problem when running media centre via my nvidia based machine to the plasma. (on my old 7800 and now on an 8800).

I have since tried some reg hacks from xp/vista but they dont seem to make any difference to the acceleration settings in win7. It is probably something to do with the driver now. Fat chance getting Intel to update whatever they need to update to fix it.

I am currently using vlc to play media from my NAS device but I really like the media centre interface. There isn't anything that can beat it at the moment. I have been using it since XP Media centre edition was released a long time ago.

 

[DerAusgewanderte]

In vista I had a similar problem and it was due to the video driver. If you set the video card hardware acceleration from "Full" down one notch it would work. Unfortunately, I am having the same problem on Windows 7 64bit on a mac mini (intel 945 integrated - gma950 video). Unfortunately the button is greyed out. I am investigating it at the moment.

Hope that helps.

not sure if you still have the problem with your gma950. read my post here.

 

[osu9400]

Sick Nasty, any resolution to your playbck problem? I have the exact same issue.

In Vista and Win 7 build 7000, it worked great without installing any 3rd party codecs. In build 7100 I get audio in Media Center, but no video or menus.

 

[DerAusgewanderte]

Sick Nasty, any resolution to your playbck problem? I have the exact same issue.

In Vista and Win 7 build 7000, it worked great without installing any 3rd party codecs. In build 7100 I get audio in Media Center, but no video or menus.

I decided to download the Vista 64 bit drivers from Intel ([FONT=Arial,helvetica]version 15.8.3 - 7.14.10.1504) and installed them (ignoring the error message that I have newer drivers installed already - Pre-release WDDM 1.1). It actually works, I get the Intel graphics system icon as well. I have no problems with the drivers and video playback and all of the video editing software packages work as well.
you may want to try latest vista drivers for your graphics card too.
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[osu9400]

That led me to the fix. I have an Nvidia GeForce 9600 card. The driver from Windows Update was 4/2/09. The Nvidia website had a 4/28/09 version. Once I installed this everything worked. I did NOT need to install a codec. One other interesting note was that Windows Assessment would get stuck on "Tuning Video Encoding" (or whatever it says). After I installed the update, the assessment finally completed.

I decided to download the Vista 64 bit drivers from Intel ([FONT=Arial,helvetica]version 15.8.3 - 7.14.10.1504) and installed them (ignoring the error message that I have newer drivers installed already - Pre-release WDDM 1.1). It actually works, I get the Intel graphics system icon as well. I have no problems with the drivers and video playback and all of the video editing software packages work as well.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,helvetica]you may want to try latest vista drivers for your graphics card too. [/FONT]

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
This might be due to the stupid licensing system of commercial DVD's. Microsoft might be prevented from including the DVDCSS decryption algorithm usually incorporated into commercial DVD's.


Try installing VLC and play a DVD (note not a BLU RAY one) and see what happens.
If VLC works then you'll probably find WMC will as well since VLC has the DVDCSS library integrated into it.

I haven't had any problem with this at all. Also WinDVD works (the one I got with my device).

If you need to install this in compatability mode choose VISTA SP2 as the option. RC build 7100 allows this new option and it does seem to fix weird compatability problems.

BTW even if you've got NTSC / PAL problems (regions etc) the video should still show up but garbled if you are using the wrong system. NTSC on a PAL screen will usually work but in Black and White. PAL on NTSC will show some lines like when the old "Horizontal sync" on CRT TV's (anybody remember those) was out of adjustment.

Most modern computer monitors will play either PAL or NTSC without a problem however.

cheers
jimbo

 

[kurisuto]

Hi guys,

I'm getting a somewhat similar problem, except that commercial DVDs simply won't play at all in Media Center, WMP, or Media Player Classic. I put the DVD in, and try to load it up but the players just don't respond. They don't freeze or crash but there's no menu, no video, no sound.
I thought it might be a problem with the dvd drive itself, but dvds manage to play reasonably fine with VLC, and its not like the OS isn't recognising the disc in the drive.

I'm pretty much at the end of my wits with it. I've tried downloading mpeg2 decoders, codec packs, or searching for anyone with a similar problem and this thread is probably closest to mind I can find.

Anyone have any ideas?
btw: gtx 295, pioneer dvd r/w drive, using the windows7 64bit beta (build 7000) but downloading the RC now in hopes that it's fixed.
All drivers are up to date too.

Many thanks!

 

[kurisuto]

Well whaddaya know, switching to the RC fixed it up totally!

 

[NoN]

Hi there, I did got all those probs either....but i did a search in registry and found that...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\HardwareMFT]
"EnableDecoders"=dword:00000000
"EnableEncoders"=dword:00000001
"EnableVideoProcessors"=dword:00000001

I did change the value "EnableDecoders" and set it to "1".

I'd closed regedit and started WMC and Dvd's did worked fine, as well in WMP...

No need VLC Player anymore and all those codec packages...

Cheers. AR

Humm doesn't work all time...it has been reset back.

What's about the cyberlink powerdvd one? Does it worth a try? It's suppose to be quality codec one...