hey tech people, pref DVD people

[JohnKleeb]

Got me an odd problem here, Ive been trying to watch a DVD on the computer and I click play yet the movie wont start, yet I go on another DVD player and it does. Weird eh? I guess I could watch the movie upstairs but damnit lol I am a perfectionist loser lol and I wanna watch the movie in bed.

[Book Lover]

1. Could be a lotta things

and unfortunately one of them may be that the drive in your computer just won't play that particular DVD... have you tested that drive with another DVD?

[JohnKleeb]

2. yeah I have and it works

[Book Lover]

4. Well, that's good

Is your player software updated? Is the DVD you are trying to play a cheapie?

[Renew Deal]

3. Do you have the DVD software installed?

What kind of computer is it? What are you clicking play on?

[JohnKleeb]

7. yeah I do because I tried another movie just right now

anmd it worked like a charm. The DVD software is installed, what happens is I go to the main menu like always and I click play but it doesnt start up, yet it was working last week because its band of brothers and episode 3 started up but episode 4 wont. Thanks.

[Book Lover]

9. Hum. Perhaps a defective product

DVD, I mean... So, BoB episode 4 disc won't play in the computer but will in the player, right? And BoB episode 3 plays in both?

[JohnKleeb]

10. episode 3 and episode 4 are the same disk

[Book Lover]

12. Oh! Then I definitely

vote for there being some encoding error on the disc. Can you perhaps borrow someone's copy and test it? I would also again check for updates to the player software.

[JohnKleeb]

14. that wouldnt work because I am the only one I know who owns this

what are these errors caused by and updates I will get those. tahnks.

[Book Lover]

15. After all this,

I hope you get to really enjoy watching yer show! :-)

[Loonman]

5. Didn't you get the memo?

DVDs are fascist(according to ohhhh, some Admin.).

:)

[sir_captain]

6. How old is the drive?

Fact of the matter is that 1st and 2nd generation dvd players and dvd-rom drives have trouble with dual layer DVDs. The laser has trouble switching depths to read the multiple layers and can't play the disc.

Other problem areas: is it a real DVD or a burned one?

The DVD might have RPC encoding on it. In a lame attempt to add even more copy protection, film companies rendered some of their own dvds unplayable on certain players and drives

[JohnKleeb]

8. its a year old about and its a real DVD

[sir_captain]

11. Ok

it comes down to a few possibilities then.

A) the disc is a little messed up and the computer drive is having trouble reading it. That's fairly unlikely, though hardly impossible. I've had a couple of slightly defective discs that played in some players and not others.

b) Your computer's dvd-rom drive isn't up to snuff. Some laser assemblies are crappy--the dvd drive used in the PS2, for example, which is manufactured by Sony, is notorious for being horrible.

c) the third and most likely culprit is your software dvd player. I suggest uninstalling it completely and reinstalling it, or even installing another program--this has worked for me in the past. I don't know what OS you're using, but if it's Windows XP, media player does not count as a separate program--it simply uses whatever DVD software you have installed. I think PowerDVD is slightly better than WinDVD, as a note.

[JohnKleeb]

13. but why can it read my other DVDs?

I think I am using powerDVD btw.

[sir_captain]

16. If it's literally having no trouble

with any other disc that you own, then there's probably something up with the disc itself. How long ago did you buy the Band of Brothers set?

As a note: all dvd players, software or not, have a certain level of error correction built in to them. So your dvd player may do a better job of error correction than your dvd-rom.

[JohnKleeb]

17. I bought the set two novembers ago

[sir_captain]

18. ah, well,

no returning it then. i'd still try reinstalling the software, but other than testing another BoB 3-4 disc or testing it on another computer, I don't have much more advice for you, sadly.

[DCDemo]

19. Some ideas

But...

1) Check for scratches/ polish or clean the disc surface
2) Check for cat fur or hair in the tray of the DVD drive....they can cause problems when trying to acess specific parts of discs, which is why this might be a problem but other discs are not
3) Just suck it up, watch Episode 4 on the TV, then the rest on your pc. In some cases, some discs..or portions of discs (both DVD and CD) will not work in some drives sometimes....