All my dvd players are crashing, nothing will work, HELP!!!

[Anthrax]

I'm going insane. I can't get any of my players to work. They are all crashing. I gave up a long time ago and just started using WMP, but then I got a new receiver and wanted to have digital audio output, so I wanted to try the other dvd player software.

I thought the problem might be with the tv tuner card software Showshifter, which I think part of it was. However, PowerDVD and DirectDVD will not work. PowerDVD crashes when I press play and DirectDVD stops responding. WMP now gives me an error about digital permissions or copyright or something, "more info" says it has to do with the dvd decoder.

If anyone has any ideas I would really really appreciate. This is my only way to play DVDs. If anyone knows of a way to completely rid my system of any kind of decoders that might be installed or tampering with the software I could try that. Please HELP!

-Brandon

[instigator_008]

Well, the easiest way to do this (and probably the best) would be to reformat your hard drive and reinstall your operating system. This will give you a nice clean installation. Then go ahead and try PowerDVD etc.

[Anthrax]

I was afraid of that, I'd really hate to do that considering how much I would have to back up and what a pain it would be.

[Prospero424]

Well, you can try editing your registry with regedit. This was the only way I could get rid of the Ligos Decoder.

The problem is, you have to know what you're searching for, so if you don't know what decoders are installed, you're out of luck.

If you so, just search for registry keys with names that match the decoders manufacturer or product name.

Good luck, you'll need it.


Also, try reinstalling/updating your video card drivers.

Try to think back to when this problem started and what on your system had changed at the time.