Setup default dvd player

[bambam]

Hi
Can anyone tell me how can i tell windows 2000 to lunch a specific dvd player when a dvd is being put in the dvd player. ?

thanx

[redwudz]

I haven't used W2000 for a while, but in XP, right click on DVD drive and select 'Properties'. Select 'Autoplay', then use the top window to select 'DVD movie'. Select 'Action to perform', and select your player of choice, then 'Apply'. This should start your selected player when you put a DVD movie in the drive.

[Legendsk]

You may have to open the control panel and select 'Folder Options', then the 'File Types" tab. Near the top is DVD Video. Highlight DVD Video and click on the 'Advanced' tab. You will likely already have 'Play' showing in the 'Actions' window. If not, add it with 'New' Then make sure the program selected is the DVD Player you prefer to use.

[bambam]

I can see these options in windows xp but not on my 2000 machine ...

[TBoneit]

In 2000 as I recall it you need to open "My Computer" then choose the "Tools" tab. Then "Folder Options" Then the "File Types" Then Browse down to "IFO" or follow Legendsk dirctions above and be sure it is set to the player you want.

Hope this helps?

[bambam]

Ok thanx

so what determines what happen when a dvd is inserted
is that windows is looking for a .ifo file and then open it with the default application for this file extension ?

[Legendsk]

For Windows XP, you just right-click on the CD/DVD drive and choose properties, then the 'Auto Play' tab. But sorry, I don't remember if that is true on Win2k or not. If not, then probably under device manager or folder options.

[bambam]

I was wondering what exactly windows does underneath when you insert a dvd-video.
because the same action will not be triggered if a dvd-data is being inserted ...
is it looking for .ifo in the VIDEO_TS folder ?

[Legendsk]

The WinXP 'Autoplay' tab lets you select one of 7 different types of media / files / content and then for each type, a list (of all the installed programs that could be used) appear fors you to select your choice of response, including Win Explorer and 'Always prompt for a response'. I don't remember Win2k having that feature, but I don't have a Win2k system running any longer to go test with.

[bambam]

For an audio files ... it probably look for file with extension wav, mp3, mid etc
For an image files ... it probably look for file with extension bmp, jpg, gif etc
For an video files ... it probably look for file with extension avi, mpg, mov etc
For an mixed files ... it probably look for file with any extension
For an Music CD ... it probably look for file with extension dat
For an empty CD ... it probably look for a CD with no file

But for an Movie DVD ... what does it look for ???

[Legendsk]

As far as I know,
For a DVD movie, it will look for a folder named:
VIDEO_TS
that contains a file named:
VIDEO_TS.IFO
I did not go dig into the registery to confirm this.

[parikp]

Use regedit to modify "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DVD\shell\play\command" to appropriate DVD player software path.

[jman98]

parikp - I appreciate your trying to be helpful, but we generally discourage people from digging up old threads and adding to them. After 2 and a half years, the interested parties have either long stop looking for updates or found other ways to do this.

Welcome to the forums, but please don't make a habit of digging up old posts and adding to them.

[bzag00]

Hi
Can anyone tell me how can i tell windows 2000 to lunch a specific dvd player when a dvd is being put in the dvd player. ?

thanx

The relevant registry entry is:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DVD\shell\play\command

I had this problem after installing a GNU code pack and it then always tried to run dvdplay.exe in my system32 directory, which promptly blue screened my W2K. So, I temporarily renamed dvdplay.exe to dvdplay.ex so Windows could not find it again and I went looking for "dvdplay" in the registry, found it, noticed my VLC install command was also there in a subkey, and copied that command into this one. The point is to use a working player command in the string, and it now works when I insert the DVD in the drive or double click on the DVD drive in My Computer. VLC seems to have the codecs for all the older DVD drives and I have never had a problem with it, so if you dont have a working DVD software player try installing it and if it doesn't come up as the default DVD player then do this fix. I just didnt want to reinstall VLC because of the megapack of codes i just installed, afraid of overwriting something again.

[Ai Haibara]

You didn't read jman98's and parikp's posts, just above yours?

Also, you're willing to install a codec pack, but not reinstall VLC? The codec pack is much more likely to overwrite something or cause damage than VLC (which also uses its own self-contained codecs, not anything else installed on the system).