Power DVD 5 won´t play my films

[General Mortars]

Hi, guys,

I wonder if you can help me out here, I´ve recently had to go through a WinXP reinstall on my computer and one of the side effects is that my DVD player(s) won´t play a few of my DVDs.

It´s weird because I didn´t have this problem before.
Now, when I slip the DVD into the tray, Power DVD 5 will start and it will recognise the DVD inside, right down to all the information but it simply won´t start playng the film.

I nboticed that it only happens to my dual layer DVDs (is that the name you call those DVDs with two shiny faces that have readable tracks on both sides?).

I´d really appreciate any help you can give me out here, I just purchased this rather expensive boxset I was dreaming with for ages and it too won´t play, just sits there at the corner of my room mocking me.

Help.
Please.

[Gillies]

no thats double sided dvd... each side has dual layers. dont know why they wouldnt work though. r they all the same company? warner bros used to do that alot... have u tried the disc in a another player?

[General Mortars]

Yeah, I´ve tried on boith players and no result (on the 2nd player, it won´t even detect the presence of a DVD in the tray).

I´ve ran through almost all of my collection and so far, these are the only ones that are giving me this trouble.

The only thing they have in common is the fact that they´re double sided.
The first boxset is a TV series, the other is japanese animation.

I´m this close to start banging my head against the walls.

Help.

[Gillies]

hmmm... odd. r they some dodgy bootlegs or something? iv had some chinatown bootlegs that wouldnt work and i made new copies of them with nero and they worked fine. crappy media. other than that all i could suggest is update the firmware on ur drive. was the 2nd player a physical dvd player or a software player?

[General Mortars]

I have a couple bootlegs in here, but these are all originals, bought in e-stores.
The thing is these are Region 1 DVDs and I live in region 2;
Region killer (2.7 1.0) has always saved me in these ocasions (I have DVDs from all regions in all corners of the world, from HK films to hollywood), but now it´s starting to look bad.

Both drives are physical DVD players.

[Gillies]

hmm. when i asked if they where physical i meant a stand-alone dvd player. try them in a stand alone and see what happens... does the operating system recognise the discs? if so try copying the disc to the harddrive as an image and see if u can play it then with a virtual drive?

[Krispy Kritter]

Sounds like your region free software isn't working.