Cannot view Bought Movie DVDs on my Sony DRU 720A.

[sujaram]

Hi All,

I have Pentium 4 PC with 925x motherboard. I have installed the SONY DRU 720A DVD drive on the SATA interface using SATA to PATA converter cable that came with the Mother Board.

When I try to play the Legal DVDs' Bought from shops, I can only hear the sound but the screen is totally black.

I have winXP on my PC. But I have not upgraded to Service Pack 2. Can somebody help me. I suspect the Codec Drives. But I am not sure, which codec is necessary to view the Movie. Any help is appreciated. Also I am not able to play some of the Audio CDs. Not sure what causes the problem.

Thanks in Advance.

[edDV]

You need a MPeg2 decoder to play a DVD. Did you install the software that came with the Sony? There's probably a MPeg2 player in there. A writer usually comes with a Nero authoring package as well.

Usually once the MPeg2 codec is installed, WMP also accesses it for DVD playback.

[zworg2]

Hi All,

I have Pentium 4 PC with 925x motherboard. I have installed the SONY DRU 720A DVD drive on the SATA interface using SATA to PATA converter cable that came with the Mother Board.

When I try to play the Legal DVDs' Bought from shops, I can only hear the sound but the screen is totally black.

I have winXP on my PC. But I have not upgraded to Service Pack 2. Can somebody help me. I suspect the Codec Drives. But I am not sure, which codec is necessary to view the Movie. Any help is appreciated. Also I am not able to play some of the Audio CDs. Not sure what causes the problem.

Thanks in Advance.

I essentially had the same problem.

I was rebuilding one of my PC's. The drives i put into it were a Plextor 504A and a generic reader. Neither would play anything (DVD -esque) that i tried.

Thank fully tho it gave me an error message relating to the lack of an Mpeg-2 decoder, so i installed the such and it worked perfectly.

Does sound like its nothing to do with the drive (a knackered drive v unlikely to pick audio stream but not the video stream) and does sound much more like PC problem.

Install either a specific decoder or the software package that came with the drive.

And hopefully you'll be able to get the popcorn out!

[sujaram]

HI,

I checked the codecs using dxman and found mpeg2 decoder, spliter,some table designer etc. It seems okay with respect to codec. I am not sure about the versions and the vendor name. I am going to post it tonight once I reach home.

I am also going to try and update my Inno3d graphic (pci express) card driver and see whether things work.

I was using windvd ver 7.0 to play the DVD. Am not sure whether I need different type of mpeg2 codec for this. Any I will post the result tonight.

Thanks for your help.

Another question. anyone used dvdregion free software. Does it really work in unprotecting dvds.?

regards

[Krispy Kritter]

WinDVD and PowerDVD install their own mpeg2 codec. Try uninstalling and reinstalling WinDVD.

Also, try using the software to open the disc instead of the autoplay feature.