DVD wont play

I just got Vista Home Premium.
When i put a movie i burned in media center it won't play.
The play button is grayed out.
When i put in a Original DVD i bought in it plays.
Why can't i play my burned DVD's
It plays in Windows Media Player.

I'm guessing the video file on the burned DVD is an .AVI file with a codec
you don't have installed. Try one of these.

http://www.xvid.org/

http://www.divx.com/

Download and install one of the above codecs, not the full player.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/



"desgnr" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I just got Vista Home Premium.
> When i put a movie i burned in media center it won't play.
> The play button is grayed out.
> When i put in a Original DVD i bought in it plays.
> Why can't i play my burned DVD's
> It plays in Windows Media Player.

The AVI did"nt play
Also I coverted it in Convert x to DVD & that did:nt play either.
How do i know which Codec i need ?
"Kerry Brown" <*a*m> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm guessing the video file on the burned DVD is an .AVI file with a codec
> you don't have installed. Try one of these.
>
> http://www.xvid.org/
>
> http://www.divx.com/
>
> Download and install one of the above codecs, not the full player.
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
> http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> "desgnr" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I just got Vista Home Premium.
>> When i put a movie i burned in media center it won't play.
>> The play button is grayed out.
>> When i put in a Original DVD i bought in it plays.
>> Why can't i play my burned DVD's
>> It plays in Windows Media Player.
>

Kerry Brown <*a*m> wrote:

<top-posting macro corrected>

>> I just got Vista Home Premium.
>> When i put a movie i burned in media center it won't play.
>> The play button is grayed out.
>> When i put in a Original DVD i bought in it plays.
>> Why can't i play my burned DVD's
>> It plays in Windows Media Player.
>
> I'm guessing the video file on the burned DVD is an .AVI file with a
> codec you don't have installed. Try one of these.
>
> http://www.xvid.org/
>
> http://www.divx.com/
>
> Download and install one of the above codecs, not the full player.
>

He said that he has the original, so it sounds like a straight copy of the
DVD, so it will still be in the original MPEG-2 DVD-Video format, and not
some re-encoded file downloaded from the internet.

It must be a matter of the copy-protection (CSS and/or Macrovision) coming
into effect.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
news:%23$...
> Kerry Brown <*a*m> wrote:
>
> <top-posting macro corrected>
>
>>> I just got Vista Home Premium.
>>> When i put a movie i burned in media center it won't play.
>>> The play button is grayed out.
>>> When i put in a Original DVD i bought in it plays.
>>> Why can't i play my burned DVD's
>>> It plays in Windows Media Player.
>>
>> I'm guessing the video file on the burned DVD is an .AVI file with a
>> codec you don't have installed. Try one of these.
>>
>> http://www.xvid.org/
>>
>> http://www.divx.com/
>>
>> Download and install one of the above codecs, not the full player.
>>
>
> He said that he has the original, so it sounds like a straight copy of the
> DVD, so it will still be in the original MPEG-2 DVD-Video format, and not
> some re-encoded file downloaded from the internet.
>
> It must be a matter of the copy-protection (CSS and/or Macrovision) coming
> into effect.
>


You're probably right :-)

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/

"desgnr" <> wrote in message
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> The AVI did"nt play
> Also I coverted it in Convert x to DVD & that did:nt play either.
> How do i know which Codec i need ?


If you are trying to copy a DVD then you are probably running into copy
protection measures as others have mentioned.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/

"i love vista" <> wrote in message
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> that's a good way to avoid saying the truth that vista enforces DRM
> because it wants to kiss all the music and videos industry arse.
>


Have you never heard of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital..._Copyright_Act

As much as I don't like it, the act exists. Any American company that writes
software that interacts with copy protected material must take this law into
account. The lawmakers in the US have gone way beyond arse kissing. Until
they remove their heads from their current position and change the law we
are stuck with DRM.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/

"[signius] ^ 2" <> wrote in message
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> there is no way to really protect any content...
>
> stopping pirates is one thing, but not letting people make copies of their
> media for their own backups or use
> is well.... as stupid as vista..
>
>
> and if you knew vista as well as I do, you cant get any stupider than
> vista...
>
Simply a false statement. You can get "stupider" than Vista. Look in the
mirror!!!!

i love vista <> wrote:

<newbie top-posting macro corrected>

>>> The AVI did"nt play
>>> Also I coverted it in Convert x to DVD & that did:nt play either.
>>> How do i know which Codec i need ?
>>
>>
>> If you are trying to copy a DVD then you are probably running into copy
>> protection measures as others have mentioned.
>>
>
> that's a good way to avoid saying the truth that vista enforces DRM
> because it wants to kiss all the music and videos industry arse.
>

Have you not realised that DVD predates Vista by a number of years, and CSS
has been used on them for over a decade, you idiot? This has nothing to do
with the DRM implemented on Vista for Protected Media Path, like HDCP for HD
content.

ss.