Windows media player 10 - dvd playing help

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Just bought a brand new laptop. Put in a DVD, and opened windows media player 10, when the dvd starts you can hear the film but there is no picture on windows media player, just a pixelated mess, but when I use Power DVD, which is also installed all DVDs work and look fine and play as normal.

Any ideas?

[Ethel]

My guess is Windows Media Player is set to the wrong region.

As you know, DVDs are Region 0, 1, 2....

What region dvds are you playing?

[Ethel]

Or you need to download a decoder.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ knowledgecenter/howto/play_cds_and_dvds_how_to .aspx

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im playing region 2. I have looked for the region settings, but can not locate them. Help!!

[spaced]

...by the way, that page does not link to any downloads

[Ethel]

Spaced - that link does have all the plug ins you could possibly need, and more importantly the decoder check up utility.

This is on the second page.


http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ player/plugins.aspx#DVDDecoder

Run the utility to see if you need a plug in.

[Ethel]

Here is the utility page.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp x?********=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FC B&displaylang=en

Just click 'continue'

[fo3nix]

Personally I'd recommend you download the free VLC. It plays almost anything you can throw at it, without the hassle of downloading new codecs etc. DVDs included.

[wideboy]

Question - why bother when Power DVD does a better job anyway? Just for completeness?

[spaced]

ethel, when click on InterVideo DVD Xpack , it takes me to a site where I can purchase it not dowload

[spaced]

the sound quality from Windows media is better thats why wideboy