Vista - Can't play dvds anymore

I used to be able to play dvds and now I can't. The only thing that changed
is one of my dvd drive die and I replaced it. Now neither drive will play.
Windows media player says a don't have enough memory and media center says
theres a problem with my decoder restart the computer. I have two gigs of
memory and the memory meter stays below 50%

The reason for this behavior is that the "trial period" on MPEG-2 codecs
needed for MCE/DVD playback/burn has expired around 11/15/06 in Vista RC1 (I
assume you are running Vista RC1). Using Vista RC2 (or RTM if you can get a
handle on it) is the right solution for now. The codecs in final Vista
release do not have such an expiration.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
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"thekingman" wrote:

> I used to be able to play dvds and now I can't. The only thing that changed
> is one of my dvd drive die and I replaced it. Now neither drive will play.
> Windows media player says a don't have enough memory and media center says
> theres a problem with my decoder restart the computer. I have two gigs of
> memory and the memory meter stays below 50%

Hi,

The MPEG decoder component has expired. (PS Some indication of this in the
notification area would have been nice to communicate this before folks start
tinkering with their HW/SW settings and waste a lot of time).

Anyway you have a couple of options.

1. Invest in 3rd party codecs for MPEG playback

or

2. Roll your system clock back if you really need too.

HTH

Philip


"thekingman" wrote:

> I used to be able to play dvds and now I can't. The only thing that changed
> is one of my dvd drive die and I replaced it. Now neither drive will play.
> Windows media player says a don't have enough memory and media center says
> theres a problem with my decoder restart the computer. I have two gigs of
> memory and the memory meter stays below 50%