Playing a DVD problem
in [Windows XP]
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From: Spamlet on 12 Jul 2010 14:20 "Eddie" <albert(a)greenacres.far> wrote in message news:Ozg5sUBILHA.1996(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Hi all, > > The problem isnt mine, I am helping a friend. > > When he puts in a dvd it takes forever for it to find a program with which > to associate itself, but does bring up a dialogue with options eventually. > We choose the VLC player because at least that one allows it to work, the > other options dont. (windows players and another couple.) > > The problem is that the sound either plays slow (out of sinc) or it speeds > up and sounds like the chipmunks etc. After a very short while the DVD > player ejects the CD and he is back to start point again. > > His system is: > AMD ATHLON 64 processor; 3000plus MMX now 2.0Ghz > NVidiaGeForce 7600GT with 256Ram > 1Gig DDR ram. > XP(not sure whether home or pro) > > He is a motor mechanic and his CD's/DVD's get filthy with his finger > marks....(yes, I have berated him on many many occasions.) but on this > occasion I found a couple that were reasonable and worked fine on his > telly via his lounge dvd player. > > Any one got any ideas? Codecs maybe? > > Ed Not wishing to butt in too much on the flow of advice, but if this guy is putting dirty dvds/cds in his pc drive. I would imagine it might benefit from a clean up. Also, some drives don't like some discs. I had a whole stack of 100 verbatims that, for some reason, skidded in our Sony DVDR, and were turned into coasters, but recorded ok on other devices. I bought a Phillips DVDR drive for our pc a couple of years ago. It didn't come with any software, and I've been using VLC quite successfully. One odd thing - that I never have worked out - is that Explorer never shows anything on a disc, until Windows Media Player has 'had a look at it'. A puzzle, but no great deal to open WMP and then switch to VLC once the files are visible. S
From: - Bobb - on 12 Jul 2010 18:41 "Spamlet" <spam.morespam(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:i1fmdh$muc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Eddie" <albert(a)greenacres.far> wrote in message > news:Ozg5sUBILHA.1996(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Hi all, >> >> The problem isnt mine, I am helping a friend. >> >> When he puts in a dvd it takes forever for it to find a program with >> which to associate itself, but does bring up a dialogue with options >> eventually. >> We choose the VLC player because at least that one allows it to work, the >> other options dont. (windows players and another couple.) >> >> The problem is that the sound either plays slow (out of sinc) or it >> speeds up and sounds like the chipmunks etc. After a very short while >> the DVD player ejects the CD and he is back to start point again. >> >> His system is: >> AMD ATHLON 64 processor; 3000plus MMX now 2.0Ghz >> NVidiaGeForce 7600GT with 256Ram >> 1Gig DDR ram. >> XP(not sure whether home or pro) >> >> He is a motor mechanic and his CD's/DVD's get filthy with his finger >> marks....(yes, I have berated him on many many occasions.) but on this >> occasion I found a couple that were reasonable and worked fine on his >> telly via his lounge dvd player. >> >> Any one got any ideas? Codecs maybe? >> >> Ed > > Not wishing to butt in too much on the flow of advice, but if this guy is > putting dirty dvds/cds in his pc drive. I would imagine it might benefit > from a clean up. Also, some drives don't like some discs. I had a whole > stack of 100 verbatims that, for some reason, skidded in our Sony DVDR, > and were turned into coasters, but recorded ok on other devices. > > I bought a Phillips DVDR drive for our pc a couple of years ago. It > didn't come with any software, and I've been using VLC quite successfully. > One odd thing - that I never have worked out - is that Explorer never > shows anything on a disc, until Windows Media Player has 'had a look at > it'. A puzzle, but no great deal to open WMP and then switch to VLC once > the files are visible. > > S > I'd always gotten some software when I bought a DVD / Cd burner, but if you need one, here's a email from 'computer newsgroup" CDburnerxp works fine for a friend of mine. try CD Burner XP -------------------- CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components. Main Website http://cdburnerxp.se/ Download Link http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download Help File http://cdburnerxp.se/help/ ImgBurn ------------ ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV. You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease. Main Website http://www.imgburn.com/ Download Link http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download Help File http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=guides
From: Spamlet on 12 Jul 2010 19:02
"- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote in message news:ux6hkNhILHA.4596(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "Spamlet" <spam.morespam(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:i1fmdh$muc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> >> "Eddie" <albert(a)greenacres.far> wrote in message >> news:Ozg5sUBILHA.1996(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The problem isnt mine, I am helping a friend. >>> >>> When he puts in a dvd it takes forever for it to find a program with >>> which to associate itself, but does bring up a dialogue with options >>> eventually. >>> We choose the VLC player because at least that one allows it to work, >>> the other options dont. (windows players and another couple.) >>> >>> The problem is that the sound either plays slow (out of sinc) or it >>> speeds up and sounds like the chipmunks etc. After a very short while >>> the DVD player ejects the CD and he is back to start point again. >>> >>> His system is: >>> AMD ATHLON 64 processor; 3000plus MMX now 2.0Ghz >>> NVidiaGeForce 7600GT with 256Ram >>> 1Gig DDR ram. >>> XP(not sure whether home or pro) >>> >>> He is a motor mechanic and his CD's/DVD's get filthy with his finger >>> marks....(yes, I have berated him on many many occasions.) but on this >>> occasion I found a couple that were reasonable and worked fine on his >>> telly via his lounge dvd player. >>> >>> Any one got any ideas? Codecs maybe? >>> >>> Ed >> >> Not wishing to butt in too much on the flow of advice, but if this guy is >> putting dirty dvds/cds in his pc drive. I would imagine it might benefit >> from a clean up. Also, some drives don't like some discs. I had a whole >> stack of 100 verbatims that, for some reason, skidded in our Sony DVDR, >> and were turned into coasters, but recorded ok on other devices. >> >> I bought a Phillips DVDR drive for our pc a couple of years ago. It >> didn't come with any software, and I've been using VLC quite >> successfully. One odd thing - that I never have worked out - is that >> Explorer never shows anything on a disc, until Windows Media Player has >> 'had a look at it'. A puzzle, but no great deal to open WMP and then >> switch to VLC once the files are visible. >> >> S >> > I'd always gotten some software when I bought a DVD / Cd burner, but if > you need one, here's a email from 'computer newsgroup" CDburnerxp works > fine for a friend of mine. > > try CD Burner XP > -------------------- > CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including > Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create > ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, > can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious > components. > > Main Website > http://cdburnerxp.se/ > > Download Link > http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download > > Help File > http://cdburnerxp.se/help/ > > > > > ImgBurn > ------------ > ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, > CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. > It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / > ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA > and WV. > You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD > DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from > a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease. > > Main Website > http://www.imgburn.com/ > > Download Link > http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download > > Help File > http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=guides > Thanks for the links. I think I did download CDBurnerXP now you mention it, along with various other things for stripping sound from 'radio' dvd recordings to convert to mp3 on the pc. (Then a lot of the impetus behind this was lost when the BBC started making more podcasts available.) Haven't actually found the time to do much with it lately so I'm a bit rusty on what's what, and my involvement tends to occur only when my partner is trying to get something to play properly. As I noted, the curious thing is why WMP can see tracks but Explorer can't until WMP sees them first. Still I've asked about that before and I shouldn't be stealing this thread with it, so Cheers, S |