WMC, Vista, Ripped DVDs not playing

Vista home premium, Media Center...

I have a few dozen DVDs that I have ripped to an external hard drive... but
Media Center errors out when I try to play them... but does indeed play
ripped DVDs if they are located on the primary hard drive...

.... obviously have done the regedit hack to "ShowGallery" to Gallery, etc...
and all DVDs are ripped region free...

Is this a bug in Media Center not able to play DVD media on external drives
(i have several AVIs on external drive which Media Center does indeed play)?
Or is there another tweak that can be done?

Thanks,

Michael

The DVD DRM rules prohibit the transfer of DVD drive content over a network
so this is probably why MC MC will not bp

"Michael Byrnes" <> wrote in message
news:A8E2B1F9-AFB8-4E05-A689-...
> Vista home premium, Media Center...
>
> I have a few dozen DVDs that I have ripped to an external hard drive...
> but Media Center errors out when I try to play them... but does indeed
> play ripped DVDs if they are located on the primary hard drive...
>
> ... obviously have done the regedit hack to "ShowGallery" to Gallery,
> etc... and all DVDs are ripped region free...
>
> Is this a bug in Media Center not able to play DVD media on external
> drives (i have several AVIs on external drive which Media Center does
> indeed play)? Or is there another tweak that can be done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael

Thanks, actually solved the issue by mapping the external drive as a folder
on primary hard drive... works great now... see instructions:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1676&page=9
Regards,

Michael

"Curious" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The DVD DRM rules prohibit the transfer of DVD drive content over a
> network so this is probably why MC MC will not bp
>
> "Michael Byrnes" <> wrote in message
> news:A8E2B1F9-AFB8-4E05-A689-...
>> Vista home premium, Media Center...
>>
>> I have a few dozen DVDs that I have ripped to an external hard drive...
>> but Media Center errors out when I try to play them... but does indeed
>> play ripped DVDs if they are located on the primary hard drive...
>>
>> ... obviously have done the regedit hack to "ShowGallery" to Gallery,
>> etc... and all DVDs are ripped region free...
>>
>> Is this a bug in Media Center not able to play DVD media on external
>> drives (i have several AVIs on external drive which Media Center does
>> indeed play)? Or is there another tweak that can be done?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>