Windows Media Player says it can't play DVD's, though it used to work.

tomstickland

It's been a few months since I tried playing a DVD. It all used to work fine.
I put a DVD in tonight and it came up with.
"Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. Open display in control panel, and then lower your screen resolution and colour quality settings. To view DVD troubleshooter click More Information."

Error ID = 0xC00D116A, Condition ID = 0x00000000

I've had a quick google and there's reams of info out there. I've followed the instructions of a trouble shooter and nothing made any difference.

Media player will play wmv files on my hard drive fine. It won't play DVD's that used to work. So I guess that an update has changed something.

Any ideas?

busenbust

It's been a few months since I tried playing a DVD. It all used to work fine.

System Restore is one option but the worry is the longevity of the problem (since you noticed it). Could you try an alternative player such as http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html.

tomstickland

I'm just updating the video driver. See what difference that makes.
Might also try reinstalling media player.
I like the idea of another player.

tomstickland

Lost interest and downloaded that VLC players. Works fine, only took about 30s to install too.

Is this another example of the rubbish Microsoft products?

bat999

Well VLC media player comes with all its own codecs built in.
Maybe your Windows Media Player just need codecs re-installing after its upgrade.
In my opinion, you're better off with VLC. It plays all sorts of files that you may come across.
:cool:

tomstickland

VLC freezes for 2s every few minutes.

Here's the message log. Any ideas how I can fix it?

dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_NOP dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_CELL_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - cellN=2
dvdnav debug: - pgN=1
dvdnav debug: - cell_length=799200
dvdnav debug: - pg_length=25808400
dvdnav debug: - pgc_length=421934400
dvdnav debug: - cell_start=22960800
dvdnav debug: - pg_start=0
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_SPU_CLUT_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_SPU_STREAM_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - physical_wide=128
dvdnav debug: - physical_letterbox=129
dvdnav debug: - physical_pan_scan=128
dvdnav debug: buttonUpdate not done b=2 t=1
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_AUDIO_STREAM_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - physical=0
main warning: clock gap, unexpected stream discontinuity
main warning: feeding synchro with a new reference point trying to recover from clock gap
dvdnav debug: buttonUpdate not done b=2 t=1
main warning: received buffer in the future
main warning: received buffer in the future
main warning: early picture skipped
main warning: early picture skipped
main warning: dts != current_pts (255078078)
main warning: computed PTS is out of range (8081401), clearing out
main warning: output PTS is out of range (8107401), clearing out
main debug: audio output is starving (410474), playing silence
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_NOP
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_CELL_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - cellN=3
dvdnav debug: - pgN=1
dvdnav debug: - cell_length=2048400
dvdnav debug: - pg_length=25808400
dvdnav debug: - pgc_length=421934400
dvdnav debug: - cell_start=23760000
dvdnav debug: - pg_start=0
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_SPU_CLUT_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_SPU_STREAM_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - physical_wide=128
dvdnav debug: - physical_letterbox=129
dvdnav debug: - physical_pan_scan=128
dvdnav debug: buttonUpdate not done b=2 t=1
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_AUDIO_STREAM_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - physical=0
dvdnav debug: buttonUpdate not done b=2 t=1

I found this:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50886

tomstickland

I've just reinstalled windows media player, but it still won't work.
So I've run the "Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility"
and it finds one MPEG-2 Decoder (ffdshow) and warns me that "the decoder is not compatible with the synchronisation feature of Windows media player 10."

So do I need to find a codec that is?

tomstickland

I'VE FIXED IT!


I installed the Klite codec pack and ticked the MPEG-2 codec option in the installation. All works now.

bat999

Glad it's sorted.
:j

busenbust

tomstickland wrote: »

I'VE FIXED IT!


I installed the Klite codec pack and ticked the MPEG-2 codec option in the installation. All works now.

Lol, glad you got it sorted Tom