DVDs won't play

[shooshi]

Hi,

I have an Acer Aspire 5920g which uptil today was playing my dvd's fine.
When I tired getting them to read today, windows media player said that there was a copyright disclaimer issue between my dvd drive, video card...and decoder

And this was supposed to be a regional issue (I have dvd reg killer on)
It told me and is still telling me that windows media player thought that I was set to region 1

I went to my computer (I have windows vista btw) and checked my dvd drive, when I found a surprise.

I had 2 drives, one cd and one dvd (the cd one is new, in all my time with this laptop I had never seen it) In any case, I checked all the drives, everything was region 2, just like the dvd I had tried to put it.

I then tried to see if disabling the "fake" cd drive would help, with no success

Then I proceeded by downloading other media players, everything from real to vlc

VLC manages to read the dvd, but the image is a big lot of fuzz and very staticky.

I then tried other dvd's..
for all other region 2 ones I tried, I had the same problem

and for a region free dvd, the computer isnt even recognising it.

Anyway, thankyou for reading this and I hope you'll be able to help

I have been reading tips and suggestions from this site for a long while, first time I've ever had to post though!

shooshi

 

[shooshi]

Update:

I have uninstalled deamon tools which had created the fake drivwe.

it hasn't changed the situation though, I still can't play any of my dvd's due to the same reason, any suggestions/help?

I was thinking of a rollback to whhen I installed deamon tools (sometime last week) because I know for sure that I was reading dvd's until at least 2 weeks ago (which is when i last tried)

good idea?

 

[LookinAround]

you can try a system restore (as you say) or simply try removing the upper and lower filters for your CD/DVD devices see this MS KB

Note: Once you've removed these current filters (which can interfere with the DVD driver) you may need to reinstall all your media players / applications which access / use the DVD

 

[shooshi]

hmm..

Yep, I meant..rollback?

Anyway, thankyou for the advice, I found the things and have deleted them, on my next restart I'll know if it works or not

 

[shooshi]

another update

Ok I did the whole deleting of upper and lower things, went to media player after a restart and it asked me to change zones to read the dvd, and it did say I was on zone 1, so that is good news.


However, I didn't want to use up any of my changes available...so I reinstalled dvd region killer...to find I have the same problem all over again.

Am in the process of uninstalling all media players now, will redo that registry change and then reinstall media player to see what happens

 

[shooshi]

It works!

however..i did have to use up one of my chances to change zone

can i still use region dvd killer on my computer, or will that re muck things up?

for instance if i want to watch other films which aren't region 2?

 

[fimbles]

Vlc media player will play any dvd from any region. Im not sure why you are having picture issues. But a fresh reinstall of vlc would probly be your best option.

You can try dvd killer again but if it does muck things up, you will have to reapeat this whole process again