Vista - Media Player 11 (Vista x64) won't play DVDs

I have just built a new computer with Vista x64 and am having trouble woth
Media Player 11. When I try to play a DVD I get this message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with
digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try
installing an updated driver for your video card."
I have installed the newest nVidia driver for my 8800 Ultra without any
success with MP11. I have downloaded and installed the Vista codec package
as well. Still no luck. Any ideas?

Norguaard wrote:==================
You need a DVD decoder.

Info on DVD Decoders:
Plug-ins for Windows Media Player
http://tinyurl.com/j9e29
or...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/plugins.aspx
(cineplayer from roxio is supposed to be compatible with Vista64)

Maybe the following free player will work
on Vista 64 but I am not certain:

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/

The following articles will be useful also.

How to Fix VLC Media Player in Vista
http://tinyurl.com/5lzmm8
or...
http://tech-buzz.net/2007/05/21/how-...ayer-in-vista/

VideoLAN -
Using VLC Player Under Vista
http://tinyurl.com/2r6rrh
or...
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...r-under-vista/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


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John Inzer

I loaded the VLC media player and it works. Thank you very much. But, I
would still like to know why media player 11 and PowerDvd would not work. I
use Vista Ultimate x64. From what I have read it says that Ultimate is
supposed to have media capabilities built in. Thanks very much for the link
to VLC. At least I can play DVDs. Any idea if it will work on Blu-Rays? I
installed a Blu-Ray player in my new computer but don't have any disks to try
yet. They are all at my son's house, a long ride away.
Craig

"John Inzer" wrote:

Norguaard wrote:===================================
I don't know much about Vista 64 but I can tell
you some things are just not compatible with it.

I don't know if VLC will play Blu-Ray but I would
think your new drive came with software?

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John Inzer

It appears that my problem may have been my 8GB of RAM. I had just gotten it
to work in this machine yesterday. I removed one 2GB stick just a little
while ago and have not locked up since. For some reason, my computer just
doesn't want to run with a full complement of RAM. After removing the stick
I was able to install and use PowerDVD without a problem. Thanks for your
help. Sorry I screwed up. Guess I will try media player
next............nope, still get the message:"Windows Media Player cannot play
this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your
DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your
video card." Oh, well, I guess I don't really need Media player anyway.
Craig

"John Inzer" wrote:

How are you connecting your PC to the monitor - what cable type?

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"Norguaard" <Norguaard@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have the same problem. My Vista Ultimate x64 will not play DVD's in Media Center OR Media Player. VLC will play DVD's- No problem!

I thought it might be the video card so I changed it-No change.
Performed all updates-No Change
Did a clean install-No Change
Tried a different monitor-No Change

Hardware:
Asus P5Q-EM
Intel E8400 3Ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB ram (2 sticks total) Corsair memory
Vista X64 Ultimate

Before the clean install I also tried different codec packs and the Nvidia PureVideo decoder also with No Change

Media Player gives the same error as this thread while Media Center says it Can play the DVD due to the DVD being in use by another program, the resolution being wrong or the output not possibly being compatable.

The DVD player is not being used, the resolution is 1024X768 and the output is VGA (analog).

A further interesting phenomenon is that if I play the DVD using VLC media player, THEN Media Center will play the DVD but the video will be broken and very choppy and very delayed while the sound goes smooth. Something is very wrong.

I also tried resetting the DRM and did so successfully but also No Change in behavior.

I'm not sure what else I can do. Can you (or anyone) offer some help or suggestions going forward?

I appreciate any help and thanks,

Leif

"Norguaard" wrote:


I have the same problem and my computer runs Vista too. Just not the x64
version. I was watching a dvd for a while anyway, fell asleep, and closed the
lid of my laptop. When I came back to the laptop to watch the rest of the
movie, I saw the same error message as you did.

I'm having a similar problem. I am unable to play a blu-ray DVD on my computer using either Power DVD, VLC or Media Player. I am downloading an update for Power DVD but somehow I doubt it will work.

Could it be a region issue? I bought this in the UK. I don't see how that would affect it, though.

System:

Intel Core i7-920
Vista Ultimate x64
6gb DDR3 Ram (i think... can't actually remember if it's DDR2 or 3)
ATI Radeon 4850 512mb running a 24" through DVI (im running 2, but it doesnt work with the other one disconnected either)

Any ideas?

PowerDVD lets you set your region encoding in their option menus...

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