copyright protection! My DVD will not play

[nootax]

The problem is still copyright material not playing on the players while non copyright material does. The error that comes up in media player 9 is 0xC00D1163: copyright error. In the help section. It says specifically :"If you do not have a compatible DVD decoder installed, DVD-related commands, options, and controls do not appear in the Player and you cannot play DVDs." I think that is what is happening. The decoder attached to DVD drive is spewing out a command to NOT play these disks. I installed a copy of POWERDVD and it plays the copyrighted discs on the drive but not on media player 9, WinDVD, jetaudio, Realplayer etc. The "handshaking" that goes on, telling it to play coprighted material is screwed up. I need a direct fixed fix. To unload everything and reload again is ludicrous. There is over 12 gigs of stuff here. Especially when only a few files are bad or corrupted. So I need to know the specific files involved with copy protection that do that communication. Can any one help?

[jimmalenko]

I don't know for sure, but is it something to do with WMP wanting to use its own MPEG-2 decoder which you need to download ? I personally use PowerDVD when I play DVDs on my computer.

[nootax]

I do not know. Where would you load down that codec? What location?. All my other players do the same thing. Yet PowerDVD doesn't? If I were to load down this MPEG2 would it possibly correct the other players?
I have gone to HP for help and Microsoft and they keep getting me to unload things and reloading all of them again which is not the problem it seems. There must be something missing? By the way , I have an HP Media Centre PC M370n system. Thankyou for your response .

[jimmalenko]

I do not know. Where would you load down that codec? What location?. All my other players do the same thing. Yet PowerDVD doesn't? If I were to load down this MPEG2 would it possibly correct the other players?

Windows Media Player 9 Codecs

Windows Media Player 9 for XP

Windows Media Player 9 for Other OS

WIndows Update will install these automatically.

[indolikaa]

WMP should be getting these codecs automatically, unless you disabled that feature somehow. I think my last WinME update downloaded an entire WMP Codec Library.

[jimmalenko]

WMP should be getting these codecs automatically, unless you disabled that feature somehow. I think my last WinME update downloaded an entire WMP Codec Library.

...or you don't have the home computer on the net...

[nootax]

Well, we have tried all things suggested so far. No luck! All players have been unloaded and reloaded. I have tried other players as well ,DVD X Player, Direct DVD, BS Player plus the ones we have. I have updated codecs, updated the video driver, updated the DVD writer software. None of these have touched the problem. Still comes up as a video card problem and in other players as a copyright problem. All through this ,the PowerDVD player works. The only one to play the copyrighted discs. The Media center also says copyright problem?. One of the things I find frustrating is the "all in one disk" from HP does not break down the programs in the system fine enough so you can reinstall each as necessary. Instead you have to, in certain instances dump everything and start over....Anyway enough whinning about that. I STILL need theeee files that are directly associated with the copyright protection. I said before "If you can fix the problem by reinstalling the complete system, then you should be able to correct the problem be correcting the damaged or missing files that caused the problem". This is where the REAL experts, that is the people in this forum, can show there metal. Some one must have had the problem themselves. So if anyone can come up with something different other than reloading everything. Then it would be greatly appreciated . The challenge is there..Thankyou ahead of time...

[naturalzinc]

ur problem seems strange, but if powerDVD works, why not just use it to play ur DVDs. that seems like the simple solution to me. i personally use WinDVD and hate WMP.

[nootax]

Once again we are back. None of the solutions to the problem worked. Nobody seems to know the files involved. Howver somebody does because I found a program that coverdup part of the problem. That was DVD43 .It shifted the problem from copyright to "bad region" .Media player 9 gave me a message .."your region is set to 8"? Still of course not play the discs. then along came DVD Region Free.. Then all the players worked? .So the developers of that program no where the files are and have been able to bypass them somehow. Anyway it looks like I must do a non destructive restore because now the Medi Centre does not work. Major error in the program. So the question is...Did DVD Region Free cause it? If so what is it doing. Because the same or similiar screwup seems to happen with DVD43 as well.. It was recoverable but this one does not. The svshost continually shuts down ..Any suggestions?

[andkiich]

The svshost continually shuts down ..Any suggestions?

yes, stop using WMP and use a dedicated DVD player software.

Media player is junk anyway.

[DVD_Ripper]

When I last installed a new DVD Player it was not set to US Region Code and errored out when trying to play coded DVD's.

I had to go into the device manager (DVD Rom Drive / Properties / DVD Region) and set it to region 1 before I could play protected DVD's


HTH