Familiar with DVDs? Perhaps you can help me...

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:23 am

Ok well just recently I decided to get up off my ass and take the DVD drive out of the broken PC up in my closet and put it to use in my current PC. So while I have been making AMVs for some time now (over a year), I've always looked to capturing via capture card, and I've never ripped, nor watched a DVD on a PC before...so I am completely clueless. Anyway, I got it to show up but every time I put a DVD in this pops up:

Anyway then after I click ok, and I go to play a DVD in Real Player or ViPlay (the 2 things I've found that will actually play them), I run into yet another problem. instead of looking like this (capped via capture card):

It looks like THIS:

The only way to get it to even play DVDs without a "you don't have all the software you need installed" message in the players, I installed the filters in the Nimo Codec Pack (which I hear many negative things about). I only did this because I'm not sure which codecs/filters/ect. I need to get my DVDs to play properly...

So can anyone tell me what it is I need to solve all this (links would also be greatly appreciated)?

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:25 am

Oh and I also forgot to add that it doesn't play smoothly and it doesn't look right (looks like when you zoom in to a pic a tad too much).

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:15 am

Go get PowerDVD 5. Its not codecs you need to play your DVDs, its MPEG-2 decoding. If you dont have an MPEG-2 hardware decoder, then you have to go get a software DVD player. I think the one in PowerDVD is the MainConcept decoder.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:19 pm

Hey thanks it works

, though playback is still errr...jerky and not very smoothe. Could if have something to do with the fact that I only have a 19GB hard drive with 10GB free? I meet all the system requirements listed besides "40GB Hard Drive".

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:00 pm

Does the DVD drive had Direct Memory Access enabled?

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:02 pm

I'm not sure...how do I find that out?

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:08 pm

Uhm... I'm bad at teaching this stuff, let's let MS do the work.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=258757

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:10 pm

http://www.real-knowledge.com/dma.htm

This might help too if you have Windows XP

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:48 pm

Omg...its working perfectly now...THANK YOU!

Now if I only knew how to rip...though I'm sure I can find some answers having to do with that whole Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> thing.