Windows Media Player Not Loading AVI Movie

I have 3 movies in .AVI format on a 4.7GB DVD drive. I played it on a laptop last night, and it worked fine in Windows Media Player. Today, downstairs, I popped it into the DVD drive, and when I double click it in My Computer, My Computer stops responding, and I have to close it in Task Manager. Then, I downloaded DefilerPak and got all the necessary codecs, and updated to version 10 of WMP. I tried again, this time through WMP, File -> Open, I double click the drive, WMP hangs. Anyone know what the problem is? Thanks.

Try to access the files using different video software.

Are you positive that the drive isn't croaking?

There might also be a problem with the drive's buffer keeping the TOC from whatever disc you had in it last time. I know this used to be a problem with Win95/98, but I've seen it a couple of times on XP. Go into your System and eject the drive using the eject option from properties [needs to be a software eject, not from the button on the physical drive]. That should clear the buffer.

Last edited by ChrisMG on Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:19 am; edited 1 time in total

So any other disc you throw in there reads fine?

Or does it do that for every disc?

[you don't use Nero by any chance do you?]

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Last edited by ChrisMG on Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:27 am; edited 1 time in total

Maybe someone has a better idea then.

I know that Nero's InCD sometimes conflict with antivirus software due to wrong values in the registry and that could possibly cause the problem.

I've already assumed you've rebooted, but have you tried safe mode?

Another option is to stop all services with services.msc and then restart them one at a time.  Lengthy, but might give you a a better idea as to what could be causing the problem.

Sorry I can't be more of a help Predator  :(

I'd try another DVD before doing all of that though.  There might be a problem with the DVD player on your desktop having problems reading the table of contents for the disc.

Still doesn't fix the problem though.

Reading a ton of stuff on it right now. Lots of Toshiba laptop drives having the problem with no real definitive answer.

The list is long for possible reasons:

Nero's Incd
AVG Antivirus causing some obscure registry change
Firmware issues
Cheaply made discs
Drivers corrupt/not installed correctly

And on and on and on.

I'd say that's the way to go.

You'll be able to watch whatever you're trying to watch and you'll kind of be doing some hardware diagnostics in the process.

I'm fresh out of ideas.

Last edited by KoolDrew on Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:34 pm; edited 1 time in total

The laser in the drive can't read the disk. It might be old or malfunctioning. Copy the files to the laptop and reburn them. Burn them at the slowest possible speed. Try using good media too (Tayio Yuden), not some crap you got for free with your drive. Also, this isn't necessary, but if you have DVD+R's and a DVD burner that supports bitsetting set the booktype to DVD-ROM for increased compatibility. You may have to upgrade the firmware to one that supports bitsetting.

Also, stop using crap like WMP.

Last edited by KoolDrew on Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:47 pm; edited 1 time in total

DVD's are different then CD's. Justy try out the recommendations I gave.

Also, what DVD burner burned it? What are you trying to read it with? What kind of DVD is it? (use DVD Identifier)

Last edited by krazykaveman on Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:40 pm; edited 1 time in total

yeah tell us the speed of the dvd player and the dvd to make sure your not trying to read a 24X dvd in a 16X dvd drive.

Someone mentioned that they had problems with WMP and F@H. Have you tried running WMP without F@H on?