Its a windows 8 laptop, and I have tried several times to play dvds (from a USB drive that works fine for installing programs and other such things), but DVDs either play without sound or crash the program depending on what player I try. Any ideas why? Or has the DRM made DVDs completely unusable and I should just ignore ever trying to play them. The DVD that just annoyed me enough to post this worked fine on another computer, but will not play on mine.
In reply to Travis_K:
Have you tried VLC Player? Download here: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/vlc-2.1.0-win64.exe
Anyone else having issues with the lazy link buttons at the top of the reply box, or is it on my end?
Derick Freese wrote: In reply to Travis_K: Have you tried VLC Player? Download here: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/vlc-2.1.0-win64.exe Anyone else having issues with the lazy link buttons at the top of the reply box, or is it on my end?
I have, it normally works for other things, but when I try to play a DVD it immediately crashes.
I guess I need a Win8 system to berkeley around with. I was a tech when both Vista and 7 came out, but not this time around.
Windows 8 can be pretty irritating sometimes, I have mostly gotten used to the different user interface, but neither of the 2 printers I have tried work (they are old, but both still work with windows 7) and playing DVDs doesn't work either. I tried using the same USB drive on a windows 7 machine and it worked fine.
Yeah, sounds like a DRM issue or Win8 isn't running the device at full speed.
Check to see if there are any settings for the drive itself to alter its speed or read settings.
You could also try running VLC as an administrator to see if that improves it stability. Hold shift and right click on the icon, choose Run as Administrator.
As for the printers, I think you can force Win8 to use the Win7 drivers, but it is annoying when they pull that crap.
I will try that and see what happens. As far as the printers, I have 2. One is a wireless printer, and if I print to that one it will occasionally print the document after a couple days (or not work at all), the other one is a really old printer that didnt even have a windows 7 driver, and windows 8 recognizes it as "Device" with the proper name, but not as a printer, and it blocks you from changing the driver to anything else.
I would bet that the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP, comrad) would cure your DVD playback problems.
http://www.cccp-project.net/
Bumboclot wrote: I would bet that the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP, comrad) would cure your DVD playback problems. http://www.cccp-project.net/
You are correct. Thanks :)
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