XP pro says drive is empty, but disc will play fine on a regular player

[jarhead_h]

Okay, it seems lots of people are putting a movie disc into their PC's, the drive spins a lot, and then nothing happens. According to XP's device manager there isn't a disc in the drive. Take the disc out and put it in a stand alone player and it fires right up with no problems.

Is it some kind of DRM that us noobs don't know about? Do we need to switch operating systems? Seriously what the hell, I have a brand new factory disc of the Simpson's Movie that I payed $19.99 for at Best Buy this afternoon and I can't watch it because I don't have a TV and it won't play in VLC because the system doesn't even recognize that I put a disc in the drive. It fired right up in my Uncle's old JVC player, not modded or anything.

[JimboS]

This may be a dumb question....but does your computer have a dvd drive?????
Not just cd???

[jarhead_h]

Lite-on 20x SATA DVD-RW running on a asus A8R32-MVP with an Opty 175 at 2.61ghz(slight overclock). Graphics card is a 2900XT 1gb from sapphire. Drive plays othe DVD's without a hitch.

Put certain disc in, loud noises like drive spinning, then nothing. According to MYComputer there is no disc in the drive. Take disc out, put in DVD player in living room, starts right up.

[JimboS]

If in fact you have a dvd unit in your computer, you need a program that will play dvd's..
Win Media Player needs a codec to recognize dvd's..
Power DVD is another program, there are others

[jarhead_h]

Jimbo thank you for replying, but let me rephrase.

I have a large DVD collection, I have for years used Media Player Classic and now VLC to play my factory dvds on my PC. VLC can't play this one because WINDOWS won't recognize that it is even there. But the five year old JVC hooked to the TV sees it just fine.

[JimboS]

Bum disk???
Otherwise no idea...
Sorry!!!

[gll99]

I have had it happen a few times with cheaper discs where a burned dvd (data or video) has choked in my LG (PC) with the same symptoms you describe yet the older NEC (PC) writer and the household players play just fine. There are calibration errors caused when the disc is originally burned that some PC writers don't seem to overcome. Standalone players are more forgiving.

You could try cleaning it just in case.

[jarhead_h]

Just tried my new Firefly 4-disc set out that I also bought at Best Buy today. Disc 2&3 also won't play, same symptoms, but they both run on my brothers Dell. Think I'm in trouble.

[SCDVD]

You have a sick DVD drive. Buy a new one.

[Midzuki]

SCDVD said it all.

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Midzuki had written:

Maybe the lens of your DVD-drive is dirty.
Or the entire device is dying

[jarhead_h]

Now watching the Simpson's Movie on an old IDE Samsung DVD PLAYER. I think it's a 2x, and it's playing the movie fine. Bad drive.