Digital Copy Protection Error - DVD won't Play???

did you try to load updated drivers for the dvd drive?

I am receiving same error msg on my Dell Dimension 8400 running Vista Home Premium. It used to play DVD's fine.  I have a Radeon X800Gt video card and had upgraded the drivers but I can't specifically narrow down when DVD's stopped playing as I very seldom use computer to watch DVD's.  Once I discovered any error, I always try to correct same and have installed preivous versions of ATI Catalyst Control  Center and ATI drivers to no avail. I even went so far at to purchase Roxio DVD Decoder plugin from the WinMedia Version 11 plugin link but that didn't solve the problem, same error msg. I have searched Web, Microsoft KB (one article suggested that when computer goes in sleep mode, this can occur- tried working around that as suggested but no luck) as well as Dell. This is the first time I haven't been able to come up with a solution. Any ideas?

 

Thanks, 

 

MTB

No,

I was on with a Dell tech for a very long time and it eventually got fixed.  THEN IT CAME BACK :(

 

So I am deciding to give up for now.  I am going to re-install Vista HP when service pack 1 comes out, and hopefully that will fix it.

 

In the meantime, there is a free player that will play DVDs, it is not fancy, but it works.

 

It is called VLC media player, and can be found at: http://www.videolan.org/

 

Thanks,

Let me know if anyone figures this out.

 

Bryan

Thanks for Videolan link to a free DVD player that works at least. If I find a solution to WinMedia, will let you know.  MTB