Can't get DVD's to play on my computer

I have installed Power DVD on my computer and I'm still not able to play DVD's. Prior to this I tried playing DVD's on Windows Media Player and it said something about Digital Rights and wouldn't play. Then when I went to Microsofts "help" website they told me to buy something I already have.

Thanks

 

do you have a dvd player program in your computer?if not need to install one

 

If it's giving you an error about digital rights, then it sounds like what you're trying to play is an illegal copy of a DVD. I don't want to accuse you of anything, but that's how it would seem.

 

What exactly is the message?

 

PowerDVD is a Player/Decoder Program. Digital Rights, would mean that either there is a problem with DRM, or illegally encoded DVD playing.

 

Yes Power DVD is a DVD player. Yes it works on other computers. No. I bought the DVD from good old Wally-World. So there must be a problem with the stupid DRMs. How would I fix this?

 

PowerDVD plays all DVD movies. CSS is the only DRM on a DVD movie disc. For a DVD movie to be copied, the CSS encryption must be removed in the process. Therefore a copied DVD movie has no DRM whatsoever and would not be a problem.

Can you open the DVD in Windows Explorer? There should be the Video_ts and Audio_ts folders on the disc.

 

Maybe an issue with the region code on the drive?

 

Everything shows up fine but whenever I try to right click to play an audio or video (when exploring the DVD) file the explorer window freezes up and only that window freezes up. Any other open ones are fine. Some DVDs have players that install from them but the progs crash. I would give you the exact error msg from WMP but it freezes up too which is quite obnoxious. The fact that I even got it ias probably a stroke of luck. Oh and by the way game DVDs work fine and PS2 DVDs read fine as well.

 

This is starting to point towards a broken decoder. Have you tried reinstalling PowerDVD? Were there errors during the installation?

 

No I haven't tried reinstalling it and there were no errors upon installation but we did try to install a DVD player by a different company (don't remember the name) and the same results were achieved.

 

Let's assume your DVD Codec got broken. Go to http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm and download the K-Lite Codec Pack 2.72 Full from a mirror you like. Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions. When it comes to the codec selection screen, make sure you install 'Cyberlink DVD decoder' and 'ac3filter'.
The installer will also detect broken codecs when it finishes. If it is a codec problem, this should fix it.

 

Well it will play DVDs now they are just super laggy.

 

What else are you doing, when you are watching DVDs?