Starting problem

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Media Player does not start a movie on dvd in a normal way on my desktop,
while on laptop no problem. Both machines XP sp3 and video data rate while
burning is normal (6000). When selecting one of the movies in the menu, it
starts indeed but does not continue. Screen shows (almost black) the menu and
pauze/start does not help. Has anyone experience with this problem which only
occurs on my desktop, Laptop starts fine. Would appreciate help. Regards Wim
Kok
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Re: Starting problem by zachd

zachd
Tue Jun 17 00:08:43 PDT 2008


Do WMV and MPEG files play normally in that setup?

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"WiKo" <WiKo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Media Player does not start a movie on dvd in a normal way on my desktop,
> while on laptop no problem. Both machines XP sp3 and video data rate while
> burning is normal (6000). When selecting one of the movies in the menu, it
> starts indeed but does not continue. Screen shows (almost black) the menu
> and
> pauze/start does not help. Has anyone experience with this problem which
> only
> occurs on my desktop, Laptop starts fine. Would appreciate help. Regards
> Wim
> Kok

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Re: Starting problem by Neil

Neil
Tue Jun 17 14:44:09 PDT 2008

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:41:00 -0700, WiKo
<WiKo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Media Player does not start a movie on dvd in a normal way on my desktop,
>while on laptop no problem. Both machines XP sp3 and video data rate while
>burning is normal (6000). When selecting one of the movies in the menu, it
>starts indeed but does not continue. Screen shows (almost black) the menu and
>pauze/start does not help. Has anyone experience with this problem which only
>occurs on my desktop, Laptop starts fine. Would appreciate help. Regards Wim


It's quite common for the menus / leader part to work, but not the
content, if you don't have a (compatible) DVD decoder installed.

If you run the DecCheck program, you should be able to find that out :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en

Having a DVD decoder is basically a purchase decision unless you have
Vista ultimate / home premium, because the decoder has a few dollar
license cost which has to be picked up by the user - it's not included
in XP

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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