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Originally Posted by mrsD
I really think this is a problem with the disc Avatar itself.
Type "Avatar DVD won't play on PC" into Google and see all the hits!
I think the DVD has anti-duplication code on it, that blocks PC playback.
Sony used to do that with their music CDs a while back so people could not put them on computer too. I think they were sued, and stopped doing that with music CD. But Avatar is Sony video, and I'd suspect them of it strongly.
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I think you are 100% correct. Now here's my dilemma. Just called the guy Ivan to do a remote hosting (because he said he would search the internet to find a compatible decoder (codec) for my Windows Media Player). He can't do it now, someone is in the store and he said to call him back later.
So I said to myself "if he's going to go on the internet and download a compatible, why can I do the same thing?"
Did this last night. Did a search on "Compatible codecs for Windows Media Player, got something called a K-lite something or other, all in one codec.
Downloaded it, installed, it and wonder of wonders, when I inserted the High School Musical dvd, it was recognized in my E drive (this means my lightscribe dvd writer is working, right?), but....and here's a big but....when it came up in Widows Media Player, it played choppy, for example the movie moved frame by frame.
So while I was able to download and install a compatible codec for WMP, didn't get the good results I hoped for.
And if I open the same dvd in VLC, I get the same choppy thing.
I'm just wondering what the computer guy would do different than what I did?
All I want is to be able to play dvds like I used to before he re-formated the whole thing for me and installed a new motherboard. I asked him the other day "How come I could play dvd's before you fixed my computer?" and he said "because we re-formatted."
I know this might make perfect sense but I'm trying to understand this codec thing and it seems that there are codecs, and THEN THERE ARE CODECS.
If you were me, what codec would you download (forget Avatar), probably doesn't matter what I do to get that thing to play, I'm going to have to buy a dvd player and hook it up to my tv to play. It plays just fine on my little portable dvd player but I want to watch it BIG.
I have tried various cheap dvds in this dvd rom and I get choppy.
So before I have to lug this big thing in to Ivan, is there anything else I can do?
Much appreciated.
And I wish, that when people bought the Avatar DVD the people who made the DVD might have had the goodness to inform people that "this won't play on a PC"
lol
Melody