WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

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hi please please please help i installed windows player 9
and it wont play dvds a message says i need to reduce my
resolution etc and install a decoder but i have a decoder
and ive tried changing what it says and it still wot
work. my media player 8 worked fine playing dvds. please
help me
 
Jason said:
hi please please please help i installed windows player 9
and it wont play dvds a message says i need to reduce my
resolution etc and install a decoder but i have a decoder
and ive tried changing what it says and it still wot
work. my media player 8 worked fine playing dvds. please
help me
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As far as I know, Windows Media Player has never included codecs
(compressors/decompressors) for playing DVDs. If you played DVDs before, I
imagine that the codecs came with some third party software (PowerDVD,
WinDVD, etc.) You could try uninstalling and re-installing that application.
(Better yet, use that application to view DVDs - it will probably do a
better job than WMP.)

Also, there can be problems if you (like me) have been installing dubious
shareware/freeware. I was having trouble with an incompatible AC3 decoder
installed by the freeware utility DVD Master Backup. Once I got rid of the
decoder, all was OK.

I mainly noticed the problem using the Interactual DVD player software.
(This comes on some commercial DVDs. I normally wouldn't touch it, but I
needed to use it to view the HD format version of Terminator 2 that was
included in the recent "Extreme" bundle.) As it included no codecs of its
own, it uses the ones that it finds already installed. If one of them is
bad, there's a problem. I presume that WMP is similar.

Good luck.

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