Dvd Video won't play in on my Television during TV-out

[chinese mafia hitman]

I'm running a Radeon 345 64 meg on an HP Laptop with S-video out capability. It'll play mpegs perfectly, but not DVD Video. I've already gone into windows media player and disabled overlays, but to no avail. Should I update the drivers or what ?

[gll99]

I don't have your card but it seems pretty normal because the css encryption kicks in on the card when the tv-out is activated. I have an nvidia card so use TVTOOL. I believe DVDIDLE is similar. Don't know if either will work with your card but it's worth a try. They both have demos.

[chinese mafia hitman]

TVTool can't work on Radeons, and the other program didn't do anything either.

Does anyone have any suggestions ?

[Prospero424]

Yeah, this is really ridiculous. Things like this fall DIRECTLY under fair use rights.

First of all, always keep your drivers up to date. These days it's pretty easy and painless; just donwload the executable from www.ati.com and run it, reboot, you're done.

What I do is just rip the movie I want to watch to my hard drive using DVDshrink (this strips out the CSS encryption), play it from the hard drive, then delete it.

It really is ridiculous that you're not allowed to do this. Just be glad you're not running linux, then it would be illegal to watch any DVD movie at all.

/fed up

[Timmychuck]

Windows Media Player do not play dvd. You can if you have a plug-in
for it.

[Timmychuck]

Try this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/windowsxp/buypacks.aspx

[Prospero424]

Timmychuck is right, I totally overlooked that fact. But you should be able to play the individual VOB (from the hard drive) files as long as you have an MPEG2 decoder installed.

If the plugin he linked to doesn't work for you and/or you don't have an MPEG2 decoder (like Ligos) installed, try downloading Media Player Classic and playing the VOB files with it.

[chinese mafia hitman]

i've got media player 9 as my default dvd player. when i switch to tv mode, it doesn't show the video, and neither does powerdvd.

it's not the codecs or anything, it's something with overlays i think but i'm not sure.

[sublime053]

If you guys have ATI cards and want to play dvd's in WMP, just go to http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonopt-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=mm&prod=ai...=17&submit.y=8 , and assuming you have your original ATI driver cd, you can just use that dvd decoder. When I use that and change my display from dual monitor to one monitor and tv output, the dvd will play fine on my TV... dont know if its just me or not though, because it didn't use to play, it would just be blank, so I don't know if i changed something else or whatever. Either way, if ya got an ATI card theres a free dvd decoder you may haven't noticed..


BTW, that decoder will work on any ATI card i think.. ive got a 9700 pro