DVD Drive

[William]

Ever since installing XP Professional I have been unable
to play DVD's om my DVD drive. I also have a cd rewriter
and both drives can play cd's with no problem.

I remember when I fist purchased the PC with Win 98 that
the DVD player had the same problem. After several
telephone calls with no sucess I took the pc back to the
suplier and the technician had a look in various
properties boxes and eventually either added or removed a
tick and this fixed the problem.

I can't find a similar properties box for the DVD drive
in XP and I'm guessing that the problem is simply a case
of activating/de-activating something, but I have no idea
what.

I have checked region settings and they are fine and the
drive is recognised as a dvd drive in device manager.

Does anyone have any idea what may be the cause of my
problem?

Many thanks

William

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Do you have DVD software installed on your pc like Win DVD
Alvin

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Windows XP does not have DVD codecs/software. You must install a third
party app such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. Check the setup disc that came with
the drive..it should have some type of software on it

Bobby

 

[Guest]

Hi Guys

Thanks for the replies, but I do have DVD software
installed, I have Power DVD.

I'm sure it's something to do with the settings of the
drive but not sure what or where to find it.

William

 

[Guest]

I have an update to my problem.

Today I received a region 0 DVD and tried this and it
played ok. But when I try my region 2 disks I get a
message saying no disk in drive E.

I went to the drive properties in device manager and saw
that in region settings, no region was selected. I
therefore selected region 2. Now I can still play my
region 0 dvd but am still getting the no disk in drive E
message when I try a region 2 disk.

William