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dco   07-28-2011 at 01:12:13 PM

Tried to continue watching a purchased DVD on Windows media player 12 today and got this message.

"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card."

A new driver won't help as I have the latest version of my video card driver. I believe the cause of the problem is a windows update since that's the only change to my computer since this morning when the DVD was working. I've also tried changing some privacy settings in Windows Media player but still no luck.

Anyone else come across this problem?

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Area51reopened   07-28-2011 at 04:22:05 PM

Try to play it with vlc!

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

This way you will no if it is media player or possibly the disc protections!


Message edited by Area51reopened on 07-28-2011 at 04:23:46 PM
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Area51reopened   07-28-2011 at 04:36:59 PM

Your media player 12 might need the mpeg codec for playback!

http://www.codecguide.com/download [...] andard.htm

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dco   07-29-2011 at 06:09:13 AM

Area51reopened wrote :

Your media player 12 might need the mpeg codec for playback!

http://www.codecguide.com/download [...] andard.htm



I've downloaded a codec pack just for the sake of it and it still doesn't work which makes sense because the DVD was playing fine without it, then a few hours later the error appeared.

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calmstateofmind   07-29-2011 at 06:22:54 AM

What was the update for? Did you happen to read the release notes?

Also, +1 for recommending VLC. It's the best. Ever.

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thlillyr   07-29-2011 at 06:52:42 AM

ive seen this happen with the softwre called logmein. it install a seconod video driver called logmein mirror driver. the fix is just untistal this driver and dvd playback is restored and logmein still works

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