Go on Google and visit the forums on the first page with that key word string I suggested.

On one of the places, they suggest the updates to play DVDs well.

Okay, did that!!!! FASCINATING Reading. Not that I understood everything, but I did read that sometimes a dvd writer will not be able to read a dvd.

So it gave the option to download something called AnyDVD which I downloaded and installed.

I put in one of my purchased DVD's called Feast of All Saints. Wasn't recognized. Nothing happened.

THEN, I put in Avatar. A window popped up saying AnyDVD is reading the disc, please wait!!! So I waited.

then a BIG thing popped up saying "Your dvd doesn't work because (and it listed all these reasons one of which was:

your drive is a Region RPC2 locked drive and it went on to say "Scrambled sectors', etc."

Then SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED.

Windows media Player popped up and started playing Avatar (I said to myself "oh, joy, I just might get to see this on my computer".

And it played CHOPPY. Hey, at least it played. That's a beginning, right?

I looked to the right where it tells you exactly what the DVD is.

And it said "Avatar 2 discs Blue Ray (with all the Chapters).

Now I looked at my Avatar disc (one disc). Nowhere on this disc does it say Blu Ray. And it plays in my regular little portable dvd player just fine.

So my first question is Why is it indicating that this is a blu ray? And is there anything I can do to stop the choppiness?

I'm at the point, where I don't care if I get to play this Avatar. I would like to play other dvds (but not choppy).

??????
lol lol lol

Melody

It is possible you have a pirated disc... they slip thru into the mainstream very commonly.

There is so much they do to those discs now... it is amazing that any of them work IMO.

The Blu Ray ones were defective from the get go. I think it is your disc.

This is one reason I read books and still use the library. I am not going to futz with Kindles and players, and what not....frustrating they all are!

What really confuses me is that it plays BEAUTIFULLY on my portable dvd player. I had company over once and they had never seen a portable dvd player, let alone Avatar. Well, the colors blew them away.

That's why I wanted to watch this on my computer. Big screen. etc.

Anyway, I have an UPDATE on all this nonsense.

Because I tried absolutely EVERYTHING I know to try, I just took a walk over to the computer guy. I started the conversation:

"Now it's agreed that BEFORE I brought my PC into your store, the dvd thing worked, right? he said Absolutely.

I then walked him through step by step what I did today. He said "and it plays the same way with ANY dvd that you put in?" I said "exactly, and it doesn't matter which player I use, whether it's windows media player, real player, vlc player, ANY PLAYER!!

He said "do you want to do the remote thing?"

I said 'you know, it's just easier if I unplug the whole thing, and bring it in and give it to you. He said "I'll do a diagnostic and we'll get to the bottom"

And he won't charge me because it worked BEFORE I brought it in to him.

So sometime this week, I shall unplug everything. I'm getting it all on my Flip, so when the times come to re-connect, I don't have to drive my crazy saying "Now where does this usb thing go, and where does the printer cable go"

I'm a visual gal. I like to SEE things in order to make them work or connect.

Anyway, thanks very much for all the input.

And I understand why you go to the library.

I only hope that with all this new digital phenomenon going on, that the Library itself doesn't become obsolete.

Take care

melody

Oh I'm going over to the Vitamin D forum to ask you a question on Vitamin D

oh it popped into my head earlier today!!

maybe just take the DVD to the computer guy and see if it plays on one of his computers normally??
before you unplug everything of yours..

Yeah, never thought of that. But they ALL play on my portable dvd player, and they played on my dvd rom thing BEFORE I took it into him.

But of course I had NEVER tested the Avatar one on my dvd rom because I never thought to do that. I got that a few months ago, and then my computer had to be fixed and when I got my computer bak from the repair place, then I tried playing it, THAT'S when I discovered Avatar was not recognized at all and the others skipped frame to frame, (like watching something in slow motion). She he told me 'you need a codec". So I downloaded a K-lite all in one codec package.

No change.

But your idea is a good one.

I'll bring them in later and have him test them. That just might indicate something.

Good idea.

Melody

You are a blooming genius. I took the two dvds which I know play on the portable dvd player. One is Katherine, one of those cheap dvds you get at a store in one of the $2.00 bins. The other one was Avatar (from Blockbuster).

I went to see Ivan, the computer guy. He put in Avatar. It WOULD NOT come up in VLC. I said "Try Windows Media Player". It finally came up. EXACTLY LIKE IT PLAYS ON MINE. With gargling sounds and slow playing.

Then he put in the dvd Katherine starring Art Carney. Played exactly the same way, gargling sounds, slow playing.

He looked at me and said "Well, we now know it's not your dvd rom drive. Look, these are playing the same way in dvd rom drive. This means these dvds are suited for DVD players and nothing else.

So I went hope and made a Flip video just so you can see exactly how these dvds play in my dvd Lightscribe drive thing.

The only solution I can think of is to buy a regular dvd player and hook it up to one of the TVs in my house.

Or.....and I should have asked Ivan this question.

Can he take out my Lightscribe DVD writer thing, and replace it with a dvd player dvd drive?

See, I have no idea if such a thing even exists. The only reason I am looking into this possibility is that I enjoy watching movies on the computer and in the past, while I'm not a big dvd user, I did watch maybe 2 or 3 on the computer.

But the computer is over 5 years old. Uses Windows XP. I'm not about to replace it because it suits our needs.

But it would be cool to know that if I ever wanted to, that Ivan could replace this dvd writer thing with a regular old dvd player. Can he do that?

Anyway, here's the video of how my dvds are playing in my Lightscribe DVD writer drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CGR0F5PeRc

thanks much

Melody

whoo hoo - I love to be called a genius LOL.

Ok - now I wonder if there is a way to hook up your regular DVD player to your monitor if you'd rather watch it on a larger monitor.
Is there extra connectors on the back of it?

With the right connectors / cable I can hook my laptop to my LCD TV.
most things are doable if you have the plugs/ cables available.

most plug and connectors are sized for the specific place they go into nowadays - usb only fits usb, antenna only fits antenna, HDMI only fits in HDMI etc.


or did I mention trying to copy the dvd on to your computer and try playing it that way?

It is legal to make a copy for your own use, only illegal if you sell copies or such.

Just to make sure, I put in a lens cleaner in the drive, and cleaned it.

Put back the Avatar. Still choppy.

Hey, I'm learning.

lol
Mel