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[Xeno]

Hey gang,

Before I shell out $35 to talk to Sonic's technical support, I figured I'd ask this here.

About 5 months ago, I had a hard drive crash and lost all my software for various things, including my DVD decoder.  It hasn't really bothered me until a few days ago when I decided to finally get a new one, so I purchased the CinePlayer DVD Decoder as it was on the top of Windows' list.

After installation, I was unable to recognize DVDs period, as if I had never gotten the decoder in the first place.  I read up on all the FAQs everywhere, have set the decoder to "Preferred" despite warnings, turned off all video enhancement boxes, etc.

I've deleted the decoder, re-installed DirectX 9.0c, rebooted, re-installed the decoder, did all the voodoo with it again (like setting it to the "Preferred" option), and yet the problem persists.

My DVD player will not recogize a DVD being present in the drive.  It'll recognize anything, even balls of lint, but not a DVD disc.  Even in Windows Explorer, it shows nothing present in the drive.

Is there something wrong with the drive?  Do I need to get it replaced?  It's a OEM Sony DVD RW DW-D26A.  I'm running Windows XP Pro, Windows Media 11, I also have VLC as a back-up media player, the works.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobis...

[Beerman]

Xeno, on Jan 4 2007, 03:16 PM, said:

Hey gang,

Before I shell out $35 to talk to Sonic's technical support, I figured I'd ask this here.

About 5 months ago, I had a hard drive crash and lost all my software for various things, including my DVD decoder.  It hasn't really bothered me until a few days ago when I decided to finally get a new one, so I purchased the CinePlayer DVD Decoder as it was on the top of Windows' list.

After installation, I was unable to recognize DVDs period, as if I had never gotten the decoder in the first place.  I read up on all the FAQs everywhere, have set the decoder to "Preferred" despite warnings, turned off all video enhancement boxes, etc.

I've deleted the decoder, re-installed DirectX 9.0c, rebooted, re-installed the decoder, did all the voodoo with it again (like setting it to the "Preferred" option), and yet the problem persists.

My DVD player will not recogize a DVD being present in the drive.  It'll recognize anything, even balls of lint, but not a DVD disc.  Even in Windows Explorer, it shows nothing present in the drive.

Is there something wrong with the drive?  Do I need to get it replaced?  It's a OEM Sony DVD RW DW-D26A.  I'm running Windows XP Pro, Windows Media 11, I also have VLC as a back-up media player, the works.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobis...

I'm starting to see posts in the v9 forums that tell us removing WMP11 has helped fix problems they got after installing it.
Instructions for removing WMP11 can be found here

[Xeno]

Beerman, on Jan 4 2007, 01:18 PM, said:

I'm starting to see posts in the v9 forums that tell us removing WMP11 has helped fix problems they got after installing it.
Instructions for removing WMP11 can be found here

Unfortunately, no luck.

Now I have Windows Media 10 and I still cannot recognize a DVD disc...

I also tried to manually add in the plug-in by going to Tools>Options>Plug-ins>Add (for the Video DSP and the Renderer) and clicking on the .dll, and it says it won't add it.

I don't know what I thought I could accomplish by doing that, but it sounded like it might work.  lol

[Xeno]

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