Most of the DVDs I want to watch my family wouldn't like so I try to watch
them on my computer, especially when I need to be upstairs but I open windows
media player,open the disk drive,insert the DVD and close it again. All that
happens is a large roaring sound from my computer pretending that its doing
something when it doesn't. I don't press anything else after this and nothing
plays so I go into the menu on Windows Media Player saying "now playing" and
nothing is registered,neither is any recognition of a dvd or a way to play a
dvd. I used to be able to watch them easily and I would use the same process
and the name of the dvd would just be there. I only got this computer at New
year.
If you have any answers of how to sort this problem of a way around it
which I havn't found say so. Try not to use much computer jargen just tell me
which buttons to press with which names on them.
Thanks

p.s. I can easily play any of my songs from my mp3 or any music or movies
already on my computer on windows media so it isn't a problem with the actual
playing stuff.
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INQ

Since I have no idea what condition your OS is in, I can give you these
general tips:

1:
-Restart computer.
-Open WMPlayer.
-Insert DVD movie. (Make sure it’s a good commercially made DVD movie and
not a home copy for this test.)
-in WMP: FileOpenunder Folders you should see DVD RW Drive.
-Open DVD RW Drive
-Open Video_TS Folder
-Open video_TS file.
-It should play.

If you can’t find the DVD player in WMPlayer then go to Computer. It should
be listed or else the computer isn’t “seeing� it.

2:
Try hooking an external USB DVD player and see if that works with WMPlayer.
If it works then chances are that WMPlayer and OS are ok.

Other things you can do:
-if it’s a desktop check inside to see that all cables are connected.
-update drivers for that particular drive
-System Restore.

Without the advantage of looking at it I suspect that the DVD drive is
toast, or some OS file(s) is corrupted, or DVD drivers are missing or
corrupted.

You can also get some ideas from he

http://player.interactual.com/help/s...icles/0137.asp


Hope this helps.

--
oscar

....Right click is your best friend...


"inquizitive" wrote:

Most of the DVDs I want to watch my family wouldn't like so I try to watch
them on my computer, especially when I need to be upstairs but I open windows
media player,open the disk drive,insert the DVD and close it again. All that
happens is a large roaring sound from my computer pretending that its doing
something when it doesn't. I don't press anything else after this and nothing
plays so I go into the menu on Windows Media Player saying "now playing" and
nothing is registered,neither is any recognition of a dvd or a way to play a
dvd. I used to be able to watch them easily and I would use the same process
and the name of the dvd would just be there. I only got this computer at New
year.
If you have any answers of how to sort this problem of a way around it
which I havn't found say so. Try not to use much computer jargen just tell me
which buttons to press with which names on them.
Thanks

p.s. I can easily play any of my songs from my mp3 or any music or movies
already on my computer on windows media so it isn't a problem with the actual
playing stuff.
--
INQ