Indeed bill is correct,
You need the DRM/ copyright drivers and the only way I manage to solve
it was when a friend of mine that repairs PCs gave me a some DVD playing
software he had. If you Google it you will find a lot of info on it.
Best Regards
              Luis


-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of William "Chops" Westfield
Sent: 06 September 2008 04:23
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] PC Help


On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Rich wrote:

> Dell sent me a CD ROM with the drivers and I installed the drivers
> successfully.  That is what puzzles me,

Usually it's not the dvd drivers that you need, but the proper DRM- 
respecting video decoder SW.  Because of the DRM issues, this is  
frequently not downloadable with the actual drivers, even though it  
comes on the DVD drive install disk when you buy a new DVD drive.   
Sometimes the video card will also have DVD-decoding firmware/ 
drivers; I don't think that many of the current crop of DVD drives  
have hardware to do it.

Using one of the DRM-flaunting open source video players is probably  
an easy solution, if you can't get the original stuff working...

(If this guess is correct, you'll be able to see the DVD just fine in  
explorer/etc, with suitably mysteriously-named files and directories  
containing the video and audio content; you just won't be able to  
PLAY the DVDs as video...)

BillW

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