Media Player Crash
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Ok, so I hope this is appropriate for the lounge. It's not really a SysAdmin/OS problem I don't think. So I got The Beach on DVD for Christmas, and I was going to watch it thru my computer on the TV. I've got the right cables, and actually got it to work on the TV once (when I was testing). Also, it played on my computer fine. Now, when I went to actually watch it yesterday it wouldn't show on the TV, but would show on the computer. I messed around with things (i.e., rebooted, tried hooking the cables up at different times) for a while, and now it won't even play on my laptop at all. Here's what it does: MediaPlayerCrash.jpg (49.4K)[^] Has anybody seen this before, or does anybody know how to make it play? Thanks :) Chris Richardson
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Ok, so I hope this is appropriate for the lounge. It's not really a SysAdmin/OS problem I don't think. So I got The Beach on DVD for Christmas, and I was going to watch it thru my computer on the TV. I've got the right cables, and actually got it to work on the TV once (when I was testing). Also, it played on my computer fine. Now, when I went to actually watch it yesterday it wouldn't show on the TV, but would show on the computer. I messed around with things (i.e., rebooted, tried hooking the cables up at different times) for a while, and now it won't even play on my laptop at all. Here's what it does: MediaPlayerCrash.jpg (49.4K)[^] Has anybody seen this before, or does anybody know how to make it play? Thanks :) Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson wrote: Has anybody seen this before, or does anybody know how to make it play? The short answer is that you can't play it on a TV from your computer without decrypting/decoding the information first and saving it to a raw video clip. The message that said "analog copyright protection" is the clue here. Simply put, they don't want you *easily* copying DVDs. Jeremy Falcon
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Ok, so I hope this is appropriate for the lounge. It's not really a SysAdmin/OS problem I don't think. So I got The Beach on DVD for Christmas, and I was going to watch it thru my computer on the TV. I've got the right cables, and actually got it to work on the TV once (when I was testing). Also, it played on my computer fine. Now, when I went to actually watch it yesterday it wouldn't show on the TV, but would show on the computer. I messed around with things (i.e., rebooted, tried hooking the cables up at different times) for a while, and now it won't even play on my laptop at all. Here's what it does: MediaPlayerCrash.jpg (49.4K)[^] Has anybody seen this before, or does anybody know how to make it play? Thanks :) Chris Richardson
Ugh. Rip it, strip CSS and Macrovision, use a player that'll play from your HD. [edit: you may find this useful**]** Alternately, find out which component (drive, software, video card) is causing the problem - for me, it was my Nvidia video card, and the only way around it was to use 3rd-party software that did funky weird things to the vid chipset whilst the movie played. Z
no one puts flowers
on a flower's grave
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Ugh. Rip it, strip CSS and Macrovision, use a player that'll play from your HD. [edit: you may find this useful**]** Alternately, find out which component (drive, software, video card) is causing the problem - for me, it was my Nvidia video card, and the only way around it was to use 3rd-party software that did funky weird things to the vid chipset whilst the movie played. Z
no one puts flowers
on a flower's grave
If you can't find a player that plays from the HD, you could always use the daemon tools to mount an image of the disc and make it look like another DVD drive.
I, for one, do not think the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
-David St. Hubbins -
Ok, so I hope this is appropriate for the lounge. It's not really a SysAdmin/OS problem I don't think. So I got The Beach on DVD for Christmas, and I was going to watch it thru my computer on the TV. I've got the right cables, and actually got it to work on the TV once (when I was testing). Also, it played on my computer fine. Now, when I went to actually watch it yesterday it wouldn't show on the TV, but would show on the computer. I messed around with things (i.e., rebooted, tried hooking the cables up at different times) for a while, and now it won't even play on my laptop at all. Here's what it does: MediaPlayerCrash.jpg (49.4K)[^] Has anybody seen this before, or does anybody know how to make it play? Thanks :) Chris Richardson
"Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." What a useful error message. X| They might as well put up a MessageBox with just a yellow Exclamation Point, and OK button. BW CP Member Homepages
I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
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"Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." What a useful error message. X| They might as well put up a MessageBox with just a yellow Exclamation Point, and OK button. BW CP Member Homepages
I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
brianwelsch wrote: They might as well put up a MessageBox with just a yellow Exclamation Point, and OK button. MB_ICONERROR would be more suitable I think. :rolleyes: -- They say the most horrible things, but I hear violins. When I close my eyes, I'm at the center of the sun.
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Ugh. Rip it, strip CSS and Macrovision, use a player that'll play from your HD. [edit: you may find this useful**]** Alternately, find out which component (drive, software, video card) is causing the problem - for me, it was my Nvidia video card, and the only way around it was to use 3rd-party software that did funky weird things to the vid chipset whilst the movie played. Z
no one puts flowers
on a flower's grave
Thanks Shog! It was a lengthy process, but I used dvdshrink to copy it to my harddrive, then used another program to turn it into an ISO, then used the daemon tools to mount it as a virtual drive. It's working now, thanks for the help! :) Chris Richardson
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If you can't find a player that plays from the HD, you could always use the daemon tools to mount an image of the disc and make it look like another DVD drive.
I, for one, do not think the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
-David St. HubbinsThanks a lot! That is one cool tool, and if you see my reply to Shog, you can see how I got it to work. :) Chris Richardson
