Windows Media Player 11 won't play DVDs "Nick" <NicholasJohn16[ at ]gmail.com> 11/24/2008 12:48:34 PM I've been having a problem with Windows Media Player 11 for a few months now and I'm at a loss for figuring it out. A few months ago, Windows Media Player decided to stop playing my DVDs. Before this it had worked perfectly in both it and Windows Media Center. The DVD drive works just fine as I'm able to read and write DVDs without a problem. I had pretty much stopped watching DVDs for a few months so I can't link it to specifically one change that I've made to my computer, but suffice it to say none of the new program instillations should have bothered anything video related. This is what it looks like when I try to watch a movie: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/NicholasJohn16/DVDPlayback.jpg I downloaded and install VLC Media Player and I am able to watch movies perfectly fine with it. This leads me to believe that something has gone wrong with the embedded DVD codec in Vista, but I can't figure out how to find the problem or fix it. Any suggestions? Thank you for any assistance.

Re: Windows Media Player 11 won't play DVDs "zachd [MSFT]" <zachd[ at ]nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> 12/4/2008 6:37:39 AM Which version of Vista do you have? What "MPEG filters" are listed under WMP's Help:About:Technical Support Information menu tool? -- Speaking for myself only. See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- "Nick" <NicholasJohn16[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:B7F52BAF-2AF0-4A04-8217-C5922377CDCA[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I've been having a problem with Windows Media Player 11 for a few months > now and I'm at a loss for figuring it out. > > A few months ago, Windows Media Player decided to stop playing my DVDs. > Before this it had worked perfectly in both it and Windows Media Center. > The DVD drive works just fine as I'm able to read and write DVDs without a > problem. I had pretty much stopped watching DVDs for a few months so I > can't link it to specifically one change that I've made to my computer, > but suffice it to say none of the new program instillations should have > bothered anything video related. > > This is what it looks like when I try to watch a movie: > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/NicholasJohn16/DVDPlayback.jpg > > I downloaded and install VLC Media Player and I am able to watch movies > perfectly fine with it. This leads me to believe that something has gone > wrong with the embedded DVD codec in Vista, but I can't figure out how to > find the problem or fix it. > > Any suggestions? Thank you for any assistance.