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    can't play dvd's, win7

    as the title says, i'm having trouble playing DVD's, as in i put in the disc, load up media center, and nothing happens, it just sits there on a black screen and does nothing after i hit play movie.

    i've installed the k-lite codec in hopes that it was that, but that didn't work either.

    anyone else have this problem, or heard of this happening?

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    have you tried playing them through windows media player at the start? it might give you an idea of which codec its missing

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    Is your computer DVD player even zone-restricted?

    Most comes nowadays without any restriction preset and unless I'm wrong... commercial DVDs don't read without the correct restriction in place.

    (My Computer > Right Click on drive > Properties > Hardware > Name of your DVD drive > Double Click > Region)

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    the region is set to region1 which is united states

    and yes i've tried windows media player, it sees the disk as a playlist D: or something like that, but won't go any further, just sits there trying to play the playlist

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    sweet. that worked, thanks Ghostsix.Midgard

    wonder why windows media player, or media center won't play them though

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    WMP doesn't have a DVD decoder. I think http://www.cccp-project.net/ will include DVD playback once installed. It's not a video player itself, but rather a collection of codecs. It should add some functionality to your existing video players.

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