DVD wont play

[desgnr]

I just got Vista Home Premium.
When i put a movie i burned in media center it won't play.
The play button is grayed out.
When i put in a Original DVD i bought in it plays.
Why can't i play my burned DVD's
It plays in Windows Media Player.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I'm guessing the video file on the burned DVD is an .AVI file with a codec
you don't have installed. Try one of these.

http://www.xvid.org/

http://www.divx.com/

Download and install one of the above codecs, not the full player.

 

[desgnr]

The AVI did"nt play
Also I coverted it in Convert x to DVD & that did:nt play either.
How do i know which Codec i need ?

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I'm guessing the video file on the burned DVD is an .AVI file with a
codec you don't have installed. Try one of these.

http://www.xvid.org/

http://www.divx.com/

Download and install one of the above codecs, not the full player.

He said that he has the original, so it sounds like a straight copy of the
DVD, so it will still be in the original MPEG-2 DVD-Video format, and not
some re-encoded file downloaded from the internet.

It must be a matter of the copy-protection (CSS and/or Macrovision) coming
into effect.

ss.

 

[Kerry Brown]

He said that he has the original, so it sounds like a straight copy of the
DVD, so it will still be in the original MPEG-2 DVD-Video format, and not
some re-encoded file downloaded from the internet.

It must be a matter of the copy-protection (CSS and/or Macrovision) coming
into effect.

You're probably right

 

[Kerry Brown]

The AVI did"nt play
Also I coverted it in Convert x to DVD & that did:nt play either.
How do i know which Codec i need ?

If you are trying to copy a DVD then you are probably running into copy
protection measures as others have mentioned.

 

[Kerry Brown]

that's a good way to avoid saying the truth that vista enforces DRM
because it wants to kiss all the music and videos industry arse.

Have you never heard of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

As much as I don't like it, the act exists. Any American company that writes
software that interacts with copy protected material must take this law into
account. The lawmakers in the US have gone way beyond arse kissing. Until
they remove their heads from their current position and change the law we
are stuck with DRM.

 

[Zimbabwe Jones]

there is no way to really protect any content...

stopping pirates is one thing, but not letting people make copies of their
media for their own backups or use
is well.... as stupid as vista..


and if you knew vista as well as I do, you cant get any stupider than
vista...

Simply a false statement. You can get "stupider" than Vista. Look in the
mirror!!!!

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

that's a good way to avoid saying the truth that vista enforces DRM
because it wants to kiss all the music and videos industry arse.

Have you not realised that DVD predates Vista by a number of years, and CSS
has been used on them for over a decade, you idiot? This has nothing to do
with the DRM implemented on Vista for Protected Media Path, like HDCP for HD
content.

ss.