Cant play DVD's?

[sKiT]

I just got a 16X DVD-ROM and am haing troubles getting any DVD to play. Im using Nvidia Driver 44.03 and have tried playback using PowerDVD, WinDVD and WMP 8.0 and all of them have given me some sort of analog copy protecion error or macromedia error. I was almost certain i would be able to play DVD's on my DVD-ROM right out of the box with the bundled software (PowerDVD) but I guess I'm Wrong. Anyone have any Ideas? What gives?

AMD XP2100+
640MB DDR PC2100
VisionTek GeForce3 64MB

[iNeb]

Do you have any region set on your dvd-rom

[sKiT]

what do you mean by Region?

[iNeb]

Some dvds need a region to play, not sure what it does.

What os do you use? I'll walk you through it..

[sKiT]

Windows XP PRO SP1

[iNeb]

Ok

Click on My Computer > RIght click on your dvd-rom > Select properties > hardware tab > click on your dvd-rom drive > properties > dvd region > select your country > click ok > ok till you get back to your main screen

Now try and play a dvd

[sKiT]

nope.....that didnt work, Got the same error. It looked as if there was a region already set. The DVD starts to play.... I see the FBI warnings and even get a title screen for Willow. Then I hit play and it starts to play but then I get the error. With 8-Mile and cant even get a title screen.

[iNeb]

What error are you getting?

[sKiT]

It depends what player I use. I just played Ocean's Eleven and it plays fine. It has to do with the analog copy protection I think. PowerDVD tells me that and says something about having a TV hooked to my video card but I dont have a TV hooked up. I do have a S-video out on my GF3, but nothing plugged into it. I get the error anyway.

[sKiT]

I emailed Visiontek concerning this issue and they responded within 5 minnutes with

"Please remove the drivers your currently running. Go to www.driverheaven.net/cleaner this is a utility that will remove all nvidia drivers from your computer and registry. Once you have done that go to www.visiontek.com click drivers and scroll down till you see Release 25, Version 30.82 and also make sure you have WinZip on your computer since this is a zip file and will need to be extraced. . Nvidia made a fundamental change in the way that the drivers read Macrovision protection. Visiontek has always used the Nvidia reference drivers on cards based from the Nvidia reference design and the Nvidia reference BIOS. They are aware of the problems that a lot of customers are having with cards from many manufacturers and drivers newer than 30.82."


So it appears the issue is well known yet quietly kept by NVidia or they aren't concerned about dabbling with DVD-playback so much as they are for optimizing for games. I just hope my games run as great still as I'm going to use a Visiontek driver vs Nvidia's Detonator and see if the switch is worth the effort. I should have done a little more homework before my purchase.