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I have PowerDVD 5.0 and it will not play a DVD. PowerDVD begins to reacts as if it will play the DVD and then does nothing. When I say reacts, I mean that the Cyberlink background adjusts video prior to beginning playback of the DVD, which my system does, then nothing. No error messages etc....
In Windows Media Player the DVD tab shows up as it should for a successfully installed Decoder (PowerDVD). When you go to play a DVD under "Play-DVD, VCD or CD audio" Windows Media Player reports there is no DVD in the Drive.
Running Windows XP, all the latest MS patches and hotfixes, installed PowerDVD patch for version 5.0, have a P4 1.8Ghz, 512MB RAM, plenty of disk space etc......
I have tested my DVD Drive on another XP workstation with PowerDVD and it works fine so it is not the drive or the software.
Have uninstalled any other players including RealPlayer, WinDVD, etc... Also used DXMan to make sure there were not remnants of MPEG components from other apps.
Uninstalled PowerDVD, removed the registry keys for Cyberlink, WinDVD, DIVX etc... and reinstalled PowerDVD but still the same problem. Tried a number of different DVD titles. None are copies, and they all worked on my test PC.
If anyone has seen this behavior would appreciate some ideas.
Regards
In Windows Media Player the DVD tab shows up as it should for a successfully installed Decoder (PowerDVD). When you go to play a DVD under "Play-DVD, VCD or CD audio" Windows Media Player reports there is no DVD in the Drive.
Running Windows XP, all the latest MS patches and hotfixes, installed PowerDVD patch for version 5.0, have a P4 1.8Ghz, 512MB RAM, plenty of disk space etc......
I have tested my DVD Drive on another XP workstation with PowerDVD and it works fine so it is not the drive or the software.
Have uninstalled any other players including RealPlayer, WinDVD, etc... Also used DXMan to make sure there were not remnants of MPEG components from other apps.
Uninstalled PowerDVD, removed the registry keys for Cyberlink, WinDVD, DIVX etc... and reinstalled PowerDVD but still the same problem. Tried a number of different DVD titles. None are copies, and they all worked on my test PC.
If anyone has seen this behavior would appreciate some ideas.
Regards