Media Player 9 crashes whenever DVD is played

[Paul Fedorenko]

Well... It doesn't so much crash as reboot my system. As soon as the
disc gets to the point where it's about to display the root menu, the
screen goes black and the computer goes through it's boot-up phase.
Really strange.

It's a fresh Windows XP installation, as of two days ago.

I've tried it with two different DVD decoders -- PowerDVD, which came
with my drive and InterVideo's DVD+MP3 XPack which I used before the
reinstall and which used to work really well.

PowerDVD used on it's own works fine. No problems. But when I try
playing a DVD in Media Player using the PowerDVD decoders, I get the
reboot problem.

Any thoughts?

 

[Christopher L]

Visit the "Official" Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

Windows Media Player FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx

Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ (Excellent Site!)
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

Windows Media Player Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];wmp

 

[zachd [ms]]

So... this is either your video card driver (my money's on this) or your
MPEG2/DVD decoder. I'd bet that-
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#vdriver
would help fix you up.

-Zach
--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted - *use the newsgroups*.

 

[zachd [ms]]

Sounds like the PowerDVD decoders aren't compatible with WMP. If they
weren't part of a WMP-compatible decoder pack, I'd suspect you would very
much not want to force WMP to use them.
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#mpeg2

-Z
--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted - *use the newsgroups*.