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Smartphones Fun Stuff Search site How to Fix Window Media Player "Cannot Play This DVD" Error Message Isn't it great how even in our modern computer age with Windows 7 and Windows 8, you can still receive an error like "Windows windows media players for mac Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is problem with digital copy protection" when you're trying
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to watch a regular from Netflix on your computer? It's really a pain that something like that doesn't just "work" considering it's VERY COMMON
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for people to watch DVDs on their computers! Anyway, this happened to me last night and it took me about 20 minutes to fix the problem, so I thought I would write up how I ended up fixing it! Hopefully, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/303278 you read this before thinking it's some problem with Windows or with your DVD drive, etc as I have seen some people re-install Windows or get a new DVD drive because of this error! Actually, the problem all comes down to something called codecs. Codecs are small pieces of software that can decode the material on a DVD. Whenever a DVD is created, especially new one with copyright protection software installed on them, the content of the DVD is encoded http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-fix-window-media-player-cannot-play-this-dvd-error-message/ using algorithms into a special format. This encoded data cannot be played on your computer in its normal format, so it has to be DECODED on your computer before it plays. You may have heard of DivX, which is a codec that allows people to compress full-length DVDs onto a CD without losing much of its original image quality. Some software DVD players will auto-download the required codecs for you and hence you won't have this problem, but for some reason Windows Media Players sucks at this and will pop up with the error message. If you have a Blu-ray drive and are trying to play a Blu-ray disc in Windows Media Player, the same thing applies. Windows Media Player, by default, cannot play Blu-ray discs like it can DVDs, so you have to install the correct codecs to get them to play in Windows Media Player. You can download all of the codecs for just about any type of video format by going to Free-Codecs.com and downloading the X Codec Pack or the K-Lite Codec Pack. You'll see them both listed, one on the first page and the other on the second page. Simply ignore all the items that are grayed out as they are obsolete. My suggestion would be to go ahead and install the K-Lite Codec Pack 10.x.x Full, Standard, and Basic package onto your system if you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8. This codec pack suppo
The How-To Geek Forums Have Migrated to Discourse How-To Geek Forums / Windows XP (Solved) - Problems with Windows Media Player (22 posts) Started 8 years ago by parker6 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/problems-with-windows-media-player Latest reply from LH Topic Viewed 59727 times 1 2 Next » parker6 Posts: 26 This post has been reported. Please help! I recently installed a trial version of Nero 8 on my Windows XP computer. Now, the bought dvd box sets I have will not play on my computer. I deleted Nero but it hasn't helped; Windows Media, DivX, all the players I have now tell me "Windows Media media player Player cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open display settings in Control Panel, and then try lowering your screen resolution and color quality settings" They have always worked fine before, so I do not believe the problem is with these settings. During Nero Installation, I did tick a box that I think was asking if I would be playing dvds from Europe or America, and windows media player I ticked Europe, when i think these discs are made/compatable with the America option. But I don't know how to undo it! Now all teh dvds I have paid for will not play, for no reason. Any help I would massively appreciate! Thank you xxx Reports: · Posted 8 years ago Top parker6 Posts: 26 This post has been reported. Ok, I have messed around with the american/europe settings and still nothing. Windows Media Player will play discs I have burned myself with no problems. It's just the ones I have bought in box sets that won't play, even though they worked before without problems. Please help! It's so bizarre. Reports: · Posted 8 years ago Top parker6 Posts: 26 This post has been reported. ok, last post I promise - apparently I am suddenly lacking an 'MPEG-2 decoder'. Is there anywhere anyone knows of that I can download a compatible one for free, or do I have to pay?! Any help appreciated! X Reports: · Posted 8 years ago Top jd2066 Posts: 3814 This post has been reported. Edit: Post about region code deleted. Now I see your post about the MPEG-2 Decoder. From the error message that is more likely then the region code