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[sierra01]

I've just rented the 'Chicken Little' DVD, from Tsutaya. When I try to play it I get these messages (see pics), does anyone know what the problem is? I've rented DVD's before from them and never had this problem, is there another player I can d/l, or tweak Media player or real player?

[Tywais]

It looks like they copied a one time rental DVD. There are Internet places where you can 'rent' a DVD by downloading it from their site. It then verifies the DVD via their Internet site and allows it to play. After the rental period the key expires and no longer will play.

[lung]

ähmm... do you have onother player? such as windvd or powerdvd...?

i think the windows-one don't play "copy's" .

look with limewire or in pantip...

or maybe a "shit"-copy....

[britmaveric]

I've seen that with digital music downloads, there are ways of breaking the encryption, but couldnt be bothered, so I gave up!

[sierra01]

thanks brit!

I'll try downloading another player and see what happens.

[astor]

I think your dvd has an anticopy protection and so it cannot read by compurer readers.

Try to play it on dvd reader for tv set.

[simcity]

i use to have this problem , power DVD if i remeber fix it !

[monty]

Lot's of DVD's won't play on PC's, only on regular DVD players!

If you insert your dvd, go to my computer, and go look in the dvd, you'll find either the contents, but they all are given a size of 0kb, or you'll find a dvd with no contents at all.

The first one will still be played by powerdvd, but will be very hard to rip tou your hard disk. The second one will only play on a regular dvd player...

They do this quite simply by messing with the file table on the cd, which a computer needs to read the cd correctly, but a dvd player doesn't need this table!

Heck, you even find this copy protection on copied dvd's They just copied the protection straight over!

Edited March 12, 2006 by monty

[sierra01]

I went a hunting and downloaded DVD X Player, the trial version. It played the DVD ok but I couldn't do anything about subtitles or change to Thai language for my wife, changing to the registered version sorted it all out.

So that's that job jobbed, many thanks people.

New problem, or rather one that started on the DVD before 'Chicken Little', 'We were soldiers'. It played ok on Media player, but when I played it a second time for my wife the sound was like someone talking and gargling at the same time, and it's still doing it now. It's just about listenable but something wrong somewhere, any ideas/fixes for this?

[Jockstar]

Try vlc player. Free download. See if this works.

[The Dan Sai Kid]

Why don't you get a cheap DVD player - they are not regionalised or respod to a lot of the copy-protection software - you can get one from about 1500 baht!

[sierra01]

Why don't you get a cheap DVD player - they are not regionalised or respod to a lot of the copy-protection software - you can get one from about 1500 baht!

I'm going back to the UK soon so I'm clearing the decks, I sold my player last week, no point in storing it for 3 years really.

[francois]

hi'

VLC reads everything

if you use nero for burning, use nero show time, it's not this bad

rip it to your hard hdd, use a cd/dvd ripper, some free and remove protection,

I mean they bypass the protection, the only one they can't deal with is the starforce one

francois

[sierra01]

Try vlc player. Free download. See if this works.

I couldn't get the VLC player d/l link to work!

[Jockstar]

Have a look here and try again.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[sierra01]

Have a look here and try again.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

That's where I tried, I clicked on the Windows d/l, then on 3 of the d/l locations, and got a d/l of 646 bytes each time! I've googled for other sites offering it but same result.

[Jockstar]

You coul always try this one. Media player classic link is below.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/