Trouble playing DVDs.

[swoffer]

Hi all .

I wonder if anyone can help , I am just about at my witts end .

My laptop will not play roughly 60% of the dvds I try to watch .

I have run a trouble shoot on my dvd player and it comes out fine but the problem remains . This is real depressing when you pay good money to hire them and cant watch them .

My machine is a Tosh Sattelite with Vista Home Premium .

Hope someone can help , I'm desperate .

Cheers Al

 

[deanj20]

Hi swoffer!

We may need a little more information.

What happens when you try to play a DVD? Do you get an error message? Or nothing at all? Are there any differences that you notice about the DVDs that will compared to those that will not?

What is the make/model of your computer? Of your DVD drive?

Have you always had problems watching DVDs, or did this just start recently?

What video player are you using? If you're using Windows Media Player, I suggest tying VideoLAN Mediaplayer and see if your movies play in that.

Where are you getting your movies? Are they clean and free of scrapes and scratches? Do they play in a "normal" DVD player?

 

[swoffer]

What happens when you try to play a DVD?

Roughly 50% of the time it will not recognise a disk in the drive . Other times they will play normally.

Do you get an error message?

No error messages.

Are there any differences that you notice about the DVDs that will compared to those that will not?

None that I have noticed.

What is the make/model of your computer? Of your DVD drive?

Toshiba Notebook , Intel Duo CPU T5750 , @ 2GHz

FUJITSU MHY2200BH

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T40N ATA Device DVD/CD-Rom

Have you always had problems watching DVDs, or did this just start recently?

From new ( bout 18 months) but is getting worse.

What video player are you using?

Toshiba DVD Player , Win Media Player , Power DVD

Where are you getting your movies? Are they clean and free of scrapes and scratches?

Local Video shops , all reasonably good cond.

Do they play in a "normal" DVD player?
Today 01:34 PM

Yes.


Thanks for the reply .

Al

 

[hyf1367]

Have you tried to put the DVD in another computer?Still have the same trouble?
Everytime you see the movie ,it stops at the same time point(60%)?
maybe theres something going wrong with your DVDroom

 

[swoffer]

Everytime you see the movie ,it stops at the same time point(60%)?
maybe theres something going wrong with your DVDroom

Nah , the problem is they wont start at all , if I open say "Toshiba DVD Player" and try to start it manually it opens the dvd tray and tells me to insert a disk when the disk is already in there .

 

[deanj20]

Roughly 50% of the time it will not recognise a disk in the drive . Other times they will play normally.

Aha. So it will sometimes recognize a disc, sometimes it won't - meaning that it's not certain discs that it's not recognizing, but just sort of hit-and-miss that it will recognize any disc at all.

All I can think of is using a DVD Drive Laser cleaning utility - they sell them cheap at Walmart, etc - it's a little disc with a tiny brush on it. Or replace the DVD drive. Definitely sounds like a hardware issue to me.

 

[FunnelWeb]

can you do a reg fix for vista so the computer may fix this issue

try this

click on start

type in regedit

go to this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11*CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

go to the right side panel and you will see an upper filters and lower filters , you want to click on each filter key and delete both.

if it prompts you to delete, just click yes to both, then exit windows. reboot computer and hopefully you should be o.k

 

[AhmedFaraz]

m player

The fist thing you need to do is to install MPlayer. Without MPlayer all my other instructions will fail. You need to go to System, Add/Remove. This is where you can download and install new apps from the ropes Search for MPlayer.

 

[DCIScouts]

can you do a reg fix for vista so the computer may fix this issue

try this

click on start

type in regedit

go to this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11*CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

go to the right side panel and you will see an upper filters and lower filters , you want to click on each filter key and delete both.

if it prompts you to delete, just click yes to both, then exit windows. reboot computer and hopefully you should be o.k

Be very careful about messing around with the registry with the computer. One seemingly insignificant mistake and your computer won't boot anymore. I would suggest this as a last resort, and if you're not familiar with the registry, very familiar, I wouldn't do it at all.

 

[swoffer]

Ok , looks like a hardware problem , new drive coming up it seems .

Thanks for all the help folks .

 

[AhmedFaraz]

nero

Hi all .

I wonder if anyone can help , I am just about at my witts end .

My laptop will not play roughly 60% of the dvds I try to watch .

I have run a trouble shoot on my dvd player and it comes out fine but the problem remains . This is real depressing when you pay good money to hire them and cant watch them .

My machine is a Tosh Sattelite with Vista Home Premium .

Hope someone can help , I'm desperate .

Cheers Al

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does not fix the problem. if you don't have a restore point prior to
installing Nero 7 that you can and want to use.