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Tahoe916 - 20 Mar 2007 08:10 GMT

Hi, I have windows vista Ultimate on a Core2Duo@3.2GHz, 2 GB ram, NVIDIA
7900GS and a 37" LCD TV as my monitor. I connect to my monitor through the
HDMI port with a DVI-D cable to an HDMI conveter plug.

My problem is that I can't play any DVDs, some of my burnt DVDs with the
copy protection stripped off works, but any DVD I rent or buy and just throw
in my computer will not work. It will sometimes play the sound with no
picture, or just say Copy Write Protection and not play.

Also, oddly enough, I just bought Star Wars Episode IV on DVD and when I put
it in it says "This DVD is not meant to play in this Region" or something
craptastic like that. Whereas, if I boot into XP (I triple boot Ubuntu, XP
and Vista) it will play just fine.

What the heck is going on? Thanks for any help you can offer, as I'm really
getting frustrated. Oh, also, I've downloaded and installed the Vista Codec
pack and tried running the WindowsXP codec checker. It says ffdShow and
Windows Media codecs are installed, but it says neither are compatible with
WM10 (I think I should have WM11) and it says I cant change it as I need to
login as admin...which I thought I was. Please help!

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Iron Feliks - 20 Mar 2007 15:23 GMT

> Hi, I have windows vista Ultimate on a Core2Duo@3.2GHz, 2 GB ram, NVIDIA
> 7900GS and a 37" LCD TV as my monitor. I connect to my monitor through the
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> to
> login as admin...which I thought I was. Please help!

I suspect that MS has acquiesced to movie industry demands that DVDs not
play on computers where they could be copied. I think I heard something a
while back about DVDs being encoded to make their use on computers
impossible. It makes the concept of fair use, a joke.

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Paul Smith - 20 Mar 2007 15:45 GMT

My partner has been busy copying her DVDs to her hard drive on her computer,
and watching them on her computer with Windows Vista Ultimate.

To the OP, grab the latest driver for the graphics card from www.nvidia.com

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>> Hi, I have windows vista Ultimate on a Core2Duo@3.2GHz, 2 GB ram, NVIDIA
>> 7900GS and a 37" LCD TV as my monitor. I connect to my monitor through
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> while back about DVDs being encoded to make their use on computers
> impossible. It makes the concept of fair use, a joke.

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Tahoe916 - 20 Mar 2007 19:00 GMT

Unfortunately I do have the latest driver. I find it almost rediculously
humorous that the only movies I can watch now are illegal movies. Before you
had a choice, be a good citizen and buy the movie, or be a thief.

Well, now MS has made the choice for me, how disappointing.

> My partner has been busy copying her DVDs to her hard drive on her computer,
> and watching them on her computer with Windows Vista Ultimate.
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> > while back about DVDs being encoded to make their use on computers
> > impossible. It makes the concept of fair use, a joke.

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zachd [MSFT] - 20 Mar 2007 19:25 GMT

> I suspect that MS has acquiesced to movie industry demands that DVDs not
> play on computers where they could be copied. I think I heard something a
> while back about DVDs being encoded to make their use on computers
> impossible. It makes the concept of fair use, a joke.

Nah, I burn my own DVDs all the time (being a content producer without
expensive equipment). Personally burnt DVDs for grandma / your friends
should work just fine. There's no real way to judge between my perfectly
legitimate DVD to some "streets of New York" copy of The Grifters, so that
rumor seems pretty false as far as I'm aware.

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Tahoe916 - 21 Mar 2007 10:49 GMT

So there's basically nothing I can do, I seriously can't play DVD's on my
Vista machine. Screw this, Ubuntu it is. What a pain.

> Hi, I have windows vista Ultimate on a Core2Duo@3.2GHz, 2 GB ram, NVIDIA
> 7900GS and a 37" LCD TV as my monitor. I connect to my monitor through the
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> WM10 (I think I should have WM11) and it says I cant change it as I need to
> login as admin...which I thought I was. Please help!

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The Anaconda - 30 Mar 2007 20:00 GMT

I'm convinced it has something to do with the nVidia drivers. I am having
this exact same problem, it started a few days ago when I changed from an ATi
1650PRO to a nVidia 7600GT. I had absolutely no problem playing DVDs with
the ATi card in there, but when I installed the nVidia card, I can't play
nearly all of my DVDs for the same copy protection errors. (some random anime
DVD's work, seems a couple US publishers don't copy-protect the DVDs).

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