DVD plays audio but no video

[j2dawson]

I changed HD and did a fresh install of XP and all updates including SP3. I also replaced the defective DVD drive. I have the DVD Writer on IDE #2 as master and a CD writer as slave. When I try to view a DVD, I get perfect audio and WM11 shows the chapter list but only a black screen. When I try to view a movie with the ATI DVD player I get nothing. Using either player I get no errors, just no video.

I'm using an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon and when I run their system test it reports that it found no DVD drive. XP sees it, as I have used it to install software and can hear audio as reported before. It's driving me nuts, can anyone help?

 

[SimonDavies]

You don't have the right codec installed.

Go to

http://www.codecs.com

and download the KLite Codec pack which will install all of the common codecs for you, alternatively you could go to

http://www.videolan.org

and download the VLC player and try using that, it has most of the codecs already installed inside it and does a pretty good job.

My preference actually would be to use VLC as the default player that way you won't have too many issues in the future.

Simon

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[j2dawson]

That did it! Thanks for the help Simon.

Jim