WMP10 not wont play DVD's...???

[B3NKobe]

Well after all these years of using Windows Media Player to play my MP3's, movies and DVD's iv never had an error.....until now.....For some reason it wont play DVD's and I continue getting this error msg (which is in the screenshot below)......it was playing DVD's fine the other day and now all of a sudden its not???

The error mentions something about screen resolution and colour, for one iv used the same screen res and colouring for the last 2 years on this pc and its always played dvds, i tried changing the res & colour down but still had the same error....anyone know what I can do?

[kirupa]

There seems to be some issue with your video driver and directdraw. Go to Start | Run and type dxdiag.exe. Select the Display Tab. Make sure you see Enabled next to DirectDraw Acceleration, AGP Acceleration, and AGP Texture Acceleration.

You may want to update your graphics drivers also, for WMP10 may use more features of your DVD Decoder and DirectX that prior versions simply didn't use.

:)

[B3NKobe]

ahhhhh I see their was a 'disabled' sign next to DirectDraw, changed to enable and opend WMP10 and tested DVD - Works again :D - Thanks for that Kirupa

[DarkChild]

wow, learned something new today :)
i've had the exact same problem, one day everyday worked fine and all of a sudden i couldn't play any dvd's anymore, got the exact same error, used powerdvd instead, but now i'm back to wmp.

thx kirupa :thumb:

[Butters]

Why would you want to watch DVD's in Windows Media Player?

[B3NKobe]

Why would you want to watch DVD's in Windows Media Player?
Well I dont actually watch DVD's from my computer anyway, I just use Windows Media Player to test dvd's....and besides that theres nothing wrong with Windows Media Player, Im a fan of it...

[Butters]

I hate Windows Media Player, I never use it.