DVD playing issues

nooby4ever · 01-08-2006, 04:37 AM

Hi everyone-

I have a LITE-ON SOHW812 DVD-RW and I cannot play certain DVD movies in the drive. Such movies as "the forgotten" and "the great raid." I have the most updated firmware. I open up my computer the the DVD player does not have a little DVD icon on it with the movie title. I have Win Media player and PowerDVD to play movies w/ XP Pro w/ SP2.

Would a newer DVD burner cure my problems?
Anybody have any ideas??

Thanks!

suprasteve · 01-09-2006, 07:24 PM

shouldn't be a burner issue, I would suggest downloading codecs and double-checking that you have your region set. It's possible that the computer will never play them, this is more likely if it's only a handful that don't work, I guess somewhere along the lines of trying to keep movies from being copied, companies make them so they can't be played with everything either. Maybe trying to find a really recently updated player would work

b182tm · 01-10-2006, 06:06 AM

When I had problems playing some of my DVD's I downloaded a codec pack, and it fixed it. Link for Codec pack

01-08-2006, 04:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
nooby4ever New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: denver Posts: 6	DVD playing issues Hi everyone- I have a LITE-ON SOHW812 DVD-RW and I cannot play certain DVD movies in the drive. Such movies as "the forgotten" and "the great raid." I have the most updated firmware. I open up my computer the the DVD player does not have a little DVD icon on it with the movie title. I have Win Media player and PowerDVD to play movies w/ XP Pro w/ SP2. Would a newer DVD burner cure my problems? Anybody have any ideas?? Thanks!

01-10-2006, 06:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
b182tm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bronco Country Age: 19 Posts: 1,044	When I had problems playing some of my DVD's I downloaded a codec pack, and it fixed it. Link for Codec pack __________________ mobo ASUS A8N5X cpu AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ memory 1GB GeIL RAM video card 6600 GT 128MB hard drive Samsung 120GB SATA HDD R.I.P. Darrent Williams

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01-09-2006, 07:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	shouldn't be a burner issue, I would suggest downloading codecs and double-checking that you have your region set. It's possible that the computer will never play them, this is more likely if it's only a handful that don't work, I guess somewhere along the lines of trying to keep movies from being copied, companies make them so they can't be played with everything either. Maybe trying to find a really recently updated player would work