Problem playing DVDs on my new installed DVDROM

[fooman76]

I just bought a NEC 3540 DVD-ROM/burner for my Pentium III. My computer recognizes the DVD, but is unable to play it in Windows Media Player stating that I should lower the resolution first. I'm currently on 1280x1024pixels. Is this absolutely necessary? I'd hate to change my resolution all the time I want to watch a DVD.

I went through the search feature and found some downloads for playing DVDs. I downloaded media player classic and while it successfully loads the DVD, the audio and video is messed up (green boxes everywhere and very choppy).

My question is whether there is something wrong with my DVD drive or is this software related? I was able to play the DVD on a standalone DVD player and it worked fine. I was also able to burn regular data files using my DVDROM without any problems.

[lumis]

try some real dvd player software, like powerdvd.

your computer seems plenty fast enough to play a dvd..

do you have dma enabled on the drive?

[Bob W]

Look in windows device manager (IDE controllers) and confirm that DMA is enabled.

[waheed]

You need to install a mpeg 2 codec for viewing dvds on your PC. windows media player and mpc use a third party codec, so install a dvd player as lumis has suggested, PowerDVD.

Im also running at 1280X1024 pixels and can play dvds fine without changing the resolution.

A pentium 3 with 512MB of memory is sufficient for playing dvds.