windows 7 All players except Media Center say all DVDs are pirated.

[Guest GreggEshelman]

Windows 7 Ultimate x64, clean install. All media players *except* Media Center refuse to play *any* DVD, claiming there's a copy protection problem or just showing the FBI warning, or just sit there doing nothing after attempting to play a retail DVD.

 

 

CPU is a 3 core AMD Phenom II. GPU is an nVidia 8800GT with the latest available drivers for it. 4 gig RAM. Motherboard is an MSI N68S+ (note the +, not the same board as the N68S).

 

 

There are no newer video drivers to try for the 8800GT. I've installed the latest OpenCodec packs. I also tried the latest CCCP and K-Lite packs (not at the same time). Nothing has made it work how it's supposed to work.

 

 

I have NEVER run into this issue on any of the hundreds of PCs I've built since the advent of DVD in 1997. It's always been get the MPEG2 and AC3 audio codecs installed, it works. For Windows versions (like 7 Ultimate x64) with built in DVD support, it works - until *this* one.

 

 

Just using Media Center for DVDs is not optimal because it forces the video to a resolution that overscans terribly on the TV the computer is connected to. Other players can scale the DVD video to fit the resolution the computer is set to.

 

 

This same hardware was running XP Pro and had no problems with DVD playing in Windows Media Player, Potplayer, VLC, MPC-HC, all worked.

 

 

The reason for upgrading Windows was to take full advantage of the Phenom II and 4 gig. XP wasn't optimized for this CPU and could only use 3 gig. Aside from the problem it shouldn't have with DVDs, it can play videos it had issues with on XP, like 10bit 1080p h.265. On XP they'd stutter, on 7 they play fine.

 

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