WinDVD troubles

[Bugscratch]

Hey guys.

I hope someone here can help me with my problem regarding WinDVD since Intervideo refused to help because it's OEM software and Creative (OEM) was unable to.

Since upgrading from W95 to W98 WinDVD won't play my DVDs anymore. I started with this machine running on 98, where it worked fine, then downgraded to 95 for some time and am now back up to 98.

I get no error messages, nothing, the DVDs simply won't play back. I downloaded a trial version of Power DVD to check whether it's a software or a hardware problem, and Power DVD played the DVDs perfectly fine.

Here are the system specs:

Gigabyte 7IX Rev 1.1
AMD Athlon 500 (650 core) @750
192 MB RAM
Geforce 1 SDR
AVM Fritz! card ISDN controller
4LAN 10 MBit NIC
Videologic SonicVortex2 sound
IBM DJNA 15,2 GB HD
Toshiba SDM-1212 DVD drive

Hope you guys can help.

Thanks
Bugscratch

 

[Bugscratch]

HELP ME, guys

 

[madthumbs]

You probably have an old version of WinDVD that sucks. I recommend upgrading to PowerDVD 3. You should get much better picture quality, sound and control.

 

[Bugscratch]

Well it's just that I'm too cheap to by new DVD software (read I'm outta cash).

I even discovered now that WinDVD will play DVDs if you select the files on the CD but it won't simply run a film from the DVD menu (not that I'd get access to that).

 

[Joeschmoe]

If you are really desparate, you could uninstall winDVD and then go through the registry and delete every reference to DVD anything. Then reinstall WinDVD. Failing that, you could get really really desparate and reformat/reinstall '98. I'm not sure if that helps much.
--James

 

[Bugscratch]

Joeschmoe, I tried both these things. Nothing.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

who said you have to buy it.... try a little searching on the web and you'd be surpised at what you can find.

 

[Quickfingerz]

you should stick to windvd though because of it's superior video/audio playback.

 

[Zucchini]

powerdvd is catching up.. i have 3.0 Windvd 2000 2.6 still beats powerdvd in sound and picture.. .. i only use powerdvd to play dvds multispeed(i read the subtitles at 4x-8x). Other then that i use windvd.

 

[sandorski]

Find DVDGenie, download it and play around with the WinDVD settings. I had to do that once to fix WinDVD.

 

[Bugscratch]

Yeah I have DVD Genie for the regional codes... RULEZ

Somehow, my WinDVD problems got solved today. I don't really know what did it but it works, and better than ever.
Computers are strange things.