DVD's not playing on PC

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DVD's not playing on PC
by Janice Goldstein on Dec 10, 2008 at 1:52:14 pm

Hi -

We are having trouble playing authored DVD Studio Pro 4 discs on some PC's. We were told that the PC's should be played with Power DVD - but some still do not play.

Is this a Vista problem or???? Is there a standard way to burn so that all computers - mac and pc can play?? I don't have a problem playing them on a regular DVD player.

Thanks.

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Re: DVD's not playing on PC
by Zane Barker on Dec 11, 2008 at 6:30:27 am

Do the PCs in question even have the ability to play DVDs?

No offense but a lot of people out there just assume that all computers can play DVDs. A lot of OLD computers cannot.

There are no "technical solutions" to your "artistic problems".
Don't let technology get in the way of your creativity!

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Re: DVD's not playing on PC
by Janice Goldstein on Dec 11, 2008 at 1:30:59 pm

The computers here have all been upgraded to Vista and have DVD drives. BTW, that's the first question I have asked - whether the computer has the ability to play a DVD.
This seems to be a random problem - does anyone else experience this??

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Re: DVD's not playing on PC
by Alex Asp on Dec 11, 2008 at 3:55:41 pm

Janice,

The ability of any given computer to run Vista, and sporting a DVD drive does not guarantee, it will be able to play DVD-Video. For this the computer needs to have MPEG2/AC3 decoding software usually referred to as DVD player. Vista does not include codecs for DVD playback and cannot play them by itself.

Alex Asp/Solaris Digital Ltd.

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