ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series (256mb) Problem

sorry that was the wrong one let me go back

http://aaron-kelley.net/downloads/hotfix/

that is what i meant to post - it is a log of hotfixes released for vista and the dates and links to download them. I didn't look through there to much but thought it may be in there. There is one about WMP

The other thing is run windows update and look at the optional updates also

I guess the best place to start would be can you play video through WMP that is not on disk. Can you download something and play it through WMP off flash drive or harddrive

I just found this

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/alert_dvd?c=us&l=en&s=gen

But it isn't for Vista

which dvd drive do you have?

may be the firmware

that's why 1st thing I said set your computers clock/date to before december 1 2006

"HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N SCSI CdRom Device" I think I've updated all my firmware but I may be wrong. I'll just check!

Thanks, Mattie.

Edit: I just updated the DVD drive firmware but I still get the same problem !!

I am almost positive you get that problem because the DVD's you are trying to watch are region-coded/CSS-encrypted/ARccOS-protected DVDs

Thats why I have posted the suggestions in this order that i did. It seems like you are not able to decode the DVD's

Oh sorry. Do you have any suggestions of where to get a DVD decoder?

Edit: ^^^ that doesn't matter anymore. I've manager to find one and my DVD's now play! Thanks alot! I might try installing some ATI software again.

THANK YOU

It depends here is what microsoft says about the issue

f you are running the Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, or Windows XP operating system on your computer, you might need to install a compatible DVD decoder (also known as a MPEG-2 decoder) before continuing with the following activities.

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Playing a DVD
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Playing a recorded TV show
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Playing video files that were encoded with the MPEG-2 codec (.mpeg, .mpg, and some .avi files)

To purchase a compatible DVD decoder, visit Plug-ins for Windows Media Player.

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Edit: I would re-install the ATI software for sure. Then if you still have probs with the games let me know I am pretty good at ATI problem shooting

I've managed to get the DVDs working but the quality of them is rather bad :/ and they are proper DVDs. Any suggestions? Or will I have to live with bad quality?

Thanks, Mattie.

Edit: I've been told CinePlayer is the best quality dvd decoder but you have to pay for it :/

Check your resolution and settings for your display (catalyst control center/video)

Did you reinstall the drivers for you video card?

and how are you connecting your graphics card to your monitor - DVI wire may increase quality over a VGA cable.

Edit: I have heard cyberlink, roxio, and cineplayer - you can get about anything for free from the right places though I don't know anything about that

Yeah I reinstalled my drivers and I've tweaked everything to highest quality but there is an improvement but not by much. Maybe I haven't tweaked it well. Do you know the best settings?

Hehe! I'll have a look around.

go into the catalyst control center under video uncheck the box and slide the bar all the way to the right.

the other thing is what is the optimal settings for you monitor. For example my monitor wants 1440X900 - 60Hz

I've done that. My monitor has 1680x1050 - 60 Hz

Have you ever used FFDShow? Because I need to know some good settings for that.

Thanks, Mattie.

I have played with it yes. First of all, you can go under the codecs tab and set all of the codecs you want it to decode. Go under postprocessing tab and increase the slider if your movie seems blocky. You can also play with the misc. tab but it depends on what you are trying to do.

Someone really needs to write guides for it for each file type they would be legends

Thanks for all of your help. Mattie :]

No probs. glad it works for you now.

I'm sure the companies who use the encoding would love that

I had some questions but you guys pretty much answered them all, i took the time to read, thanks.

thanks for taking the time to read and not asking the same questions over