How too play DVDs on WinXP Media Player?? Grrrrr

[Biggsyggg]

I have WinXP and the latest Media Player which comes with it. I have a fast DVD player, and Power DVD software with it. When i try to play DVD's in Win Media I get the error msg Error# C00D116A

I dont have a clue wat it means or how to get round it.
Plz help.


With Powere DVD i get sound but no picture. It tells me to lower my resoloution, close all ova programs which might be using DDraw resources and update Direct X.
(dont i have latest Direct X?, resoloution isnt affecting it, and wat the hell is DDraw?)

I dont know what to do- ne suggestions?

P.S. - a completely different topic, I reinstalled XP, and now my keyboard has a few keys switched round- e.g. " and @. I cant find nething in control pannel to change it. Does ne1 no how 2.

[tigerwolf]

on the WMP and powerdvd issue, did you update powerdvd to the XP compatible version? You have to do this for it to work properly and intergrate appropriately.

ON the keyboard issue, did you select the correct type of keyboard for your system when you reinstalled. It sounds like somehow either you or xp chose the wrong keyboard driver.

go under control panel, then choose, performance and maintenance, then see basic information about your computer, on the next screen choose the hardware tab, then click the device manager button, expand the keyboard tree and see what keyboard is listed and if it matches your keyboard. If not the best thing I could say is to right click the keyboard and tell it to unistall it. Reboot and it should choose the correct keyboard. Should is the operative word, but then go through the top process again to verify.

[tigerwolf]

I didn't even consider to ask what version of powerdvd you are running, but if its powerdvd 3.0 you'll need the patch, down close to the bottom of this page, under free patch files

http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/download/download.jsp

[Biggsyggg]

i bought the pc with XP on it, after i had to reinstall it, i used the recover disk for the drivers and DVD software, there was also a patch 4 it which i installed, so it shld be upgraded- or am i wrong, ??

im basicaly a newbie

ill check the keyboard thing, cheers

[Biggsyggg]

k- it is version 3.0, i cant see the free patch files though- ill keep looking, i just hope it works,

the correct keyboard drivers our installed.

[tigerwolf]

okay I'll still post my reply here even though I've already replied in private so that anyone else might be able to find it easier.

http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/download/dl_file.jsp?dl_id=54


also with the keyboard you are more then likely having one of two problems. Either 1. your multimedia keyboard doesn't have its software installed and thereby causing problems. 2. it has the software installed yet the software is not compatible with XP and therefore will require an update which you can go to the hp site and find.

As far as finding out if the software is installed go under control panel and find the add/remove programs the software should be listed under there if its installed. It should have some reference to keyboard in the name