WMP Digital copyright protection error

[Little-Miss]

Ello!

Right, teacher tries to play a dvd on her workstation...dumbo or something, original DVD. Gets the havent got codec error so i sort that. Tried to run it again and got "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a problem occured with digital copyright protection"....im sure i tried it on her laptop too and got the same error.

Any ideas....end of term is coming, dvd's need to be played! lol

[Michael]

Go to My Computer > right click your DVD drive and there should be something along the lines of "Play with PowerDVD", for example

[vote-for-pedro]

try running this first, Digital rights update, I find the filtering at my school stops mediaplayer from downloding WDRM properly

Security component upgrade

[Little-Miss]

Ohh, looked promising pedro but it didnt work..

Will try Michaels shortly...

[OutToLunch]

If you're in a hurry, 1 quick VLC install and you should be sorted

VLC media player for Windows

Doesn't use the usual Windows codecs/DRM etc so should quite happily play whatever you throw at it.

[Galway]

Install VLC player ... Free & stuffed with internal codecs

[RabbieBurns]

Is it a dvd from a different region?

[Geoff]

If you're in a hurry, 1 quick VLC install and you should be sorted

VLC media player for Windows

Doesn't use the usual Windows codecs/DRM etc so should quite happily play whatever you throw at it.

Remember to pay your royalties!

[mpe]

Go to My Computer > right click your DVD drive and there should be something along the lines of "Play with PowerDVD", for example

Alternativly try VLC.

[Michael]

Alternativly try VLC.

VLC isn't always the best. I've found lots of DVDs that won't work with it, or the picture doesn't look quite right.