Windows XP: Playing copy protected dvd's
Playing copy protected dvd's
by mwaurelius - 8/24/08 1:58 PMMy wife and I both have older computers (4 years or so) with all of the relevant updates to XP, home edition for my desktop professional for her laptop. Neither of us can get newer dvd's to play. Is there a piece of software we can buy that has copy protection in the coding that copy protected dvd's will recognize and permit us to play them?
Here I use VLC PLAYER
by R. Proffitt
- 8/24/08 2:03 PM
In reply to: Playing copy protected dvd's by mwaurelius
Anything else is usually payware.
You might try the free codecs. . .
by Coryphaeus - 8/24/08 5:19 PM In reply to: Playing copy protected dvd's by mwaureliusat my site below. They will enable Windows Media Player to play DVDs. Scroll down to the Free Software link and download the Windows Media Player DVD Helper. Unzip it anywhere and run the .bat file.
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if your pc/laptop is a retail model
by ramarc - 8/24/08 5:47 PM In reply to: Playing copy protected dvd's by mwaureliusit should have come with dvd software... usually nero, power dvd, or software from nvidia or ati.
Is this a 'Region' issue?
by MarkFlax - 8/25/08 2:14 AM
In reply to: Playing copy protected dvd's by mwaurelius
DVDs are coded to play in specific regions of the world. Your DVD drive is also set to a particular region, generally the region where you live, although if you brought the computer or DVD drive from a different country to where you normally live, then that might explain the problem. Or, if the DVD's come from a different region, you will see the same problem.
If the DVDs are set to a region different to that of your DVD drive then they will not play. If you open the computer's Device Manager, find the CD/DVD ROM entry, and open its Properties window, you can check the Region tab and see if it matches that for where you are. You can change the region there, but beware, you are only allowed 5 changes.
If the DVDs are from a different region, then perhaps you need to obtain them for the region where you live.
Mark
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