commercial dvd's are not working

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Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped
recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program
including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then
randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of
programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I
didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't
watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again -
and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY
other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of
research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search
on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never
installed). Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
 
Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an
individual application... ie one of the above.
 
This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in
my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize
that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in
there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those
programs).
 
Which DVD decoding software did you use then? Perhaps the nVidia Decoding
package?
 
What DVD decoding software did you have installed then? XP does not include
any DVD decoding software. PowerDVD and WinDVD are the most popular but
there are also many others.
 
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