Can not play commercial DVD movies with win7 ultimate

[sdowney717]

The only player that has been able to play a movie so far is powerdvd demo program.

How can I make it play with

VLC just a black screen

MPC-HC copy protection fail

WMP some error about protection scheme and video drivers

or any other normal video player?
Does win7 ultimate not allow you to play dvd discs?

I thought at least VLC could play dvd

 

[sdowney717]

ok tried a different disc and get this error
incompatible region.

When powerdvd first ran, it said something about setting regions and I choose the US-Canada, I live in the US.

 

[sdowney717]

I tried some more region free dvd players and they all fail to play.
So far the only software which can play dvd's is the powerDVD
cyberlink software.

I can play in ubuntu with no issue, so there is no real hardware issue, does win7 do something very restrictive that earlier windows versions did not do?

Anyone care to share the secret solution to this?

 

[sdowney717]

tried the corel windvd pro and it claimed drive was on region 0
So I told it to set to region 1
Anyway it can not play dvd either.

So far only one that can is cyberlink powerdvd

 

[AddRAM]

What region are you in ? Region # and what region are you trying to play ?

Is this a dvd that you bought in your local store ? Are all your dvd`s the same region ?

Do you have any region fee dvd`s you can try ?

Windows media center and player should easily be playing your dvd`s.

 

[sdowney717]

I am in USA Virginia so region 1

Trying to play a region 1 disk

region free disks I dont know, would they be older DVD?

Windows media center and player should easily be playing your dvd`s

, I Wish so too!

The player drive number is GD2000, an older unit.

I have a ELR DVD disk I copied to my hard drive. That plays over the LAN using WMP as in
hit alt - open file - navigate to network shared folder and select a vob file.

 

[sdowney717]

Yes, it can play a DVD disc I suppose it is not encrypted.
Called Anne of Green Gables, plays just fine using WMP

 

[AddRAM]

Dvd`s have been around since 1997, check the date of the player, but that should not be the problem. A dvd player will play any retail dvd. You could always get a new player, they are so cheap.

 

[sdowney717]

The DVD drive is bad? Just too old to work, my thinking is I get a newer one it still wont play.
The whole computer is old, this is an intel server board 478 CPU with 2.8ghz pentium 4
We have it for our taxes and word processing.

I just tried the k-lite codec pack and still wont play the ENCRYPTED dvd's
here is the message you get with WMP playing an encrypted DVD

Also just tried upgradin vid driver and windows says it is fine.

Somewhere, I have a disk with some kind of dvd decoder that worked with winxp. It came bundled with a dvd writer. That did make winxp play these dvd. But I will have to search hard to find that.

 

[Jacee]

What is set for your 'default' DVD/CD player? I know that some players like to make themselves the default and take over everything they can.

Try Shark007's codecs Shark007.net - Windows 7 Codecs - WMP12 Codecs

 

[lehnerus2000]

Check the manufacturer's website ...

You may have to go to the manufacturer's website to get the latest driver for your graphics card.

I find the Windows Driver Updater to be a bit "hit and miss".

I've used K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (with Media Player Classic - Home Cinema) for years.
The only problems I've had:

• A couple of years ago rmvb files stopped playing (that problem was fixed after about 6 months)
• Occasionally Flash videos won't play (those times I use VLC)

 

[Zoloft]

Try running slysoft's AnyDVD in the background while you play DVDs. It's not free sadly, but you can try it for (I think) 21 days before purchasing it to see if it does resolve your issue. Not a "fix" per-se, but a viable work-around.

 

[AddRAM]

You should not have to add anything to Windows 7 to play a dvd, and just because your pc is old has nothing to do with it.

I have a Dell 4550 (2003) with a 478 Pentium 4 2.6 and QuadroFX video card, runs dvd`s fine.

Why are you even trying to watch dvd`s on it.

 

[ESL]

Are you by any chance running WinTV on your PC? If so, this can cause the error message you get about installing the latest video driver, etc. Just uninstall WinTV.

 

[sdowney717]

No winTV installed.
Just wanted to make it work.

I put another DVD player-writer Lite-on which was made in 2006 and it now plays DVD in WMP fine.
No hiccups just like any powerful new PC today.

What I think is it must have some firmware that tells WMP, I can play this DVD legally.
Something the older DVD drive is missing.

IMO, this kind of thing is forced hardware upgrades where a collusion exists between software and hardware makers forcing consumers to buy new hardware and dropping support for perfectly good old hardware. And it happens on many things. The older DVD player was perfectly acceptable, worked for reading DVD and CD's, not writing them.

So If they wanted they could make it work, but they dont and they wont. Of course it works fine in Linux and with PowerDVD.

The old Drive is Hitachi GD-2000 which used to be in a Compaq PC and I think was made around 2000.

Also the windows property page did not show a DVD page, so also might be a windows driver issue.

Here is the new one

 

[sdowney717]

here is the GD-2000 property page not showing DVD for regions.
I have them both installed.

I wonder if windows since it is complaining about being incompatible with the region marking on this disk has to do with the drive not showing a DVD region in the properties page. So windows says it has no region, and then I wont play the disk idea.

 

[AddRAM]