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no dvd movie play on my CL56

post #1 of 12
8/3/04 at 6:34am
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Well, I have played "the big lebowski" but thats it Almost every dvd I put in there won't play. Anyone else had a prolem like this? I'm in Australia and yes, its set to region 4. I've got the dvd-rw (Toshiba SD-R6112) Any recommendations?
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post #2 of 12
8/3/04 at 9:38am
What kind of software do you use for dvd playback?
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post #3 of 12
8/4/04 at 10:40am
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just the powerdvd software that came with the laptop. I have tried openning the .vob (ir whatever they are on th edvd) files in zoom player but that doesn't work either.
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post #4 of 12
8/4/04 at 11:01am
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Originally Posted by AdamD
just the powerdvd software that came with the laptop. I have tried openning the .vob (ir whatever they are on th edvd) files in zoom player but that doesn't work either.
what error messages are you getting? is it the copyright thing?
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post #5 of 12
8/4/04 at 11:56am
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no error messages, it just hands there and loads alot. The cd drive light flashes heaps but after a while, if I click on it, windows pops up its 'this program is not responding" error. It would be nice to have an actual error to speak about but its just hanging.
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post #6 of 12
8/4/04 at 12:29pm
Which video drivers are you using?
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post #7 of 12
8/4/04 at 6:59pm
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Originally Posted by AdamD
just the powerdvd software that came with the laptop. I have tried openning the .vob (ir whatever they are on th edvd) files in zoom player but that doesn't work either.
Try adjusting the video accellerating option in powerdvd on/off.
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post #8 of 12
8/4/04 at 7:16pm
Sounds like you have problem with your DVD drive. Try to copy some files from a DVD disk to HDD. If the problem with hardware you'll get an error.
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post #9 of 12
8/4/04 at 7:29pm
I had the exact same problem, here's how mine went:

When I first got it with all stock drivers it would play DVD's fine. I installed the Omega 4.7 equiv drivers and it wouldn't play DVD's anymore, they would just sit in the drive and spin. I backed the drivers down to the Omega 4.5's (not for this reason, I was just testing gameplay with different drivers) and the DVD's started playing again.

I know there are playback issues with 4.6 and up but I don't think they are related to getting the DVD to play. This makes no sense to me but you might want to try a different driver if you are using 4.6 or 4.7. Who knows, it could have been one of the reboots that fixed it. Rebooting cures a lot of things.
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post #10 of 12
8/4/04 at 8:35pm
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Thanks everyone. Dvddrive copys files fine and the video accelertin didn't change anyhing. I am however using the omega 4.7 drivers. I am downloading an updated driver now. I'll let you know how I go.
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post #11 of 12
8/4/04 at 9:05pm
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No good. I tried putting on the 4.5 omega rdivers and got no difference. I did however try to use windws media player for playing a movie, jsut to test a different player and it told me that there were copywright protection issues and it couldn't play the disk. anyone have any ideas about this?
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post #12 of 12
8/5/04 at 8:59am
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Figured it out. it was as simple as powerdvd/zoom player using the wrong codec. still getting the copy protect fault in media player.
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