problem playing movies

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Jo-Anne

I've just started playing movies on my two-year-old Dell laptop, which runs
WinXP. The computer came with Cyberlink's PowerDVD, which I updated right
away. The first movie I started to play is showing close-captioning, even
though I have it turned off. Is this likely an issue with the movie itself
or with the software? If the latter, is there better software I can install?

Thank you!

Jo-Anne
 
Jo-Anne said:
I've just started playing movies on my two-year-old Dell laptop,
which runs WinXP. The computer came with Cyberlink's PowerDVD, which
I updated right away. The first movie I started to play is showing
close-captioning, even though I have it turned off. Is this likely an
issue with the movie itself or with the software? If the latter, is
there better software I can install?
Thank you!

Jo-Anne
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Cyberlink PowerDVD is a good program...
the following freeware may be worth a try also:

VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/

In VLC...the following steps should disable subtitles:
Tools / Preferences / Show Settings / All /
Expand...Video / Subtitles/OSD...
Uncheck...Autodetect subtitle files / Save...

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
John Inzer said:
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Cyberlink PowerDVD is a good program...
the following freeware may be worth a try also:

VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/

In VLC...the following steps should disable subtitles:
Tools / Preferences / Show Settings / All /
Expand...Video / Subtitles/OSD...
Uncheck...Autodetect subtitle files / Save...

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
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Thank you, John! I'll check out VLC and will report back.

Jo-Anne
 
Jo-Anne said:
Thank you, John! I'll check out VLC and will report back.

Jo-Anne
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OK...I hope it works for you.


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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
So far, so good, John. Thanks to your instructions, VLC is showing the movie
without the close captioning. One more question: How do I get VLC to be the
program that opens the DVD file? Right now, when I close the DVD drawer,
PowerDVD automatically opens the file. I then have to close that program and
open VLC.

Thank you again!

Jo-Anne
 
Jo-Anne said:
So far, so good, John. Thanks to your instructions, VLC is showing the
movie without the close captioning. One more question: How do I get VLC to
be the program that opens the DVD file? Right now, when I close the DVD
drawer, PowerDVD automatically opens the file. I then have to close that
program and open VLC.
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I don't use the VLC Player myself so I can't varify if the following
instructions work:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=4709&highlight=dvd+registry

Good luck,

Donald Anadell
 
Thank you, Donald! I had no idea it would be so complex to do this. (I hate
dealing with the registry.) I'll give it a try later, when I've built myself
up to it...

Jo-Anne
 
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