Fatty January 2, 2004 Share Fatty GC Founder January 2, 2004 So I have this DVD player (writer to create DVDs) and everthing is going swell on the writing end.... However, the darn thing won't play anything. Now, I can't blame it on the DVD player...cause windows media player pops up and whines to me about the write decoder....which is funny, because even when I write DVDs here, I can't play em. Now I have a real DVD that I was trying down here...and...nope. You guys have players that you use to watch movies on computers? You hardware dudes are effecient. I expect the answer within 30 minutes with link to d/l my freeware to play this movie. I hope my expecatations are not too high! Go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman January 2, 2004 Share Birdman Member January 2, 2004 I use ATI's dvd player that came wit my video card and its never failed me. There are some free ones. http://download.com.com/3000-2139-10233318...tml?tag=lst-0-1 ^^ive used that one in the past but its been awhile. here are some more http://download.com.com/3150-2139-0.html?tag=stbc.gp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty January 2, 2004 Author Share Fatty GC Founder January 2, 2004 Dang, 9 minutes. Ok, I'll check those out. TY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman January 2, 2004 Share Birdman Member January 2, 2004 hehe np hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer January 2, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member January 2, 2004 NOt necessarily part of your problem, but getting the latest DIVX drivers is a must-do if you are watching movies. divx.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX January 3, 2004 Share NOFX Member January 3, 2004 Homer,Jan 2 2004, 02:45 PM] NOt necessarily part of your problem, but getting the latest DIVX drivers is a must-do if you are watching movies. divx.com ^ | What he said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty January 3, 2004 Author Share Fatty GC Founder January 3, 2004 I believe I already had the divx, though not sure. What's funny is that I installed one of the above and now media player works. Must have just came with the needed codec. My question is, why doesn't wmp ask me if it should go get me the codec when it fails..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Kill3r January 3, 2004 Share All Kill3r Member January 3, 2004 (edited) Dont want to take credit for work thats not mine. www.over-clock.co.uk This is another forum im part of and have a thread on this same thing. Also theres a detailed installation to fix your problems if your still having them. Edited January 3, 2004 by All Kill3r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL January 3, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member January 3, 2004 Grrrr, I just had a long reply to this ready to post and accidentally closed the page. Crappy tabbed browser moving the tabs where it "thinks" you want it to be. Anyway, I had a DVD drive that just stopped reading DVD Movies one day. It could read DVD data discs and any CDs but not DVD format movies. I just had the drive RMA'd. But this doesn't sound like the problem you had. I did have a problem where I could not watch certain vids. Everytime I tried, it would crash the player. I tried Winamp3, WMP, Sasami2k, vplayer, IrfanView, Quicktime Player, and PowerDVD with no luck. I used utilities to check to see if I had the right codec (GSpot, MovieID) and tested the vid file for corruption (DivFix, CDMage, Fireburner) and eventually just re-encoded the file on my own (VirtualDub) but this was slow and just painful to do everytime I had a problem). Then a friend turned me on to a program called VideoLan that he said he used and never had a problem playing a vid. That is what I use now. **Links** ALL PROGRAMS FREEWARE UNLESS MARKED BY ^^ Players: Winamp5 - http://www.winamp.com/ WMP - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...oad/default.asp Sasami2k - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/sasami_player.html vplayer - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/vplayer.html Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/ Quicktime - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ ^^PowerDVD - http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/product...n.jsp?ProdId=28 VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/ Utilities: GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ (codec/format identifier) MovieID - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/movieid.html (codec/format identifier) DivFix - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divfix.html (checks/fixes index on Divx files) CDMage - http://cdmage.cjb.net/ (link to mirrors; checks image files (.iso, .img, .nrg, etc) for corruption) ^^Fireburner - http://www.fireburner.com/ (burning tool but also does image testing for corruption) VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/ (video encoding utility) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty January 11, 2005 Author Share Fatty GC Founder January 11, 2005 Ok, same deal how much later? I found some free player and it installed like 4 programs on my computer...and I'm burning angry right now uninstalling these things. Divx player wouldn't play the dvd. Windows Media no go. I need something please. Not some shareware crap...man am I aggrivated right now with these stupid bars and weather cast junk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet-401 January 11, 2005 Share bullet-401 Member January 11, 2005 Do you have this? It's called winblows media player 9 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...ies/player.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage January 11, 2005 Share Guest zerodamage Guests January 11, 2005 Yeah, fatty installed "freeware" which in turn installed "spyware". Your best bet Fatty is that something should have come with your dvd player or maybe a neighbor or friend owns Power DVD which installs the needed codec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL January 11, 2005 Share dwEEziL Member January 11, 2005 Did you try VLC from www.videolan.org ? It's freeware and works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet-401 January 11, 2005 Share bullet-401 Member January 11, 2005 Did you try VLC from www.videolan.org ? It's freeware and works great. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ineed. Great tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huhuh? January 13, 2005 Share huhuh? Member January 13, 2005 windows player 9 and divx work fine for me...i watch all my dvds on my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep48 January 13, 2005 Share shep48 Member January 13, 2005 try powerdvd it has a free trial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gond January 16, 2005 Share Gond Member January 16, 2005 Fatty...didn't your 9600 come with the ATI player? You should be able to download it from the ATI site. I *think* one of these files should work. http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/r...x=11&submit.y=8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nut January 16, 2005 Share nut Member January 16, 2005 9 mins... wow.. fatty you sure do get your way.. NuT- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus January 17, 2005 Share Primus Member January 17, 2005 (edited) This worked for me!! Solved the same problem for me http://www.ligos.com/indeo.htm They are video codecs that your media players need to decode the DVD files. Give it a try Edited January 17, 2005 by Primus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mini_Me January 17, 2005 Share Mini_Me GC Founder January 17, 2005 IM/PM me if you still need a player fatty.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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