PC CD/DVD Help

[Serenity]

serenity, if you liked ong bak, you'll definitely like tom yum goong. the last 15 minutes or so is one long action scene. very impressive.

i don't think the dvd is available in hawaii yet. i picked up my copy on my last trip to thailand in november but cuz of the success of ong bak, i don't think it'll be too long before tom yum goong shows up in the local shops.

Guess what??

I think my HP cd player dont work!.

It's wierd, but I can play music with it, down load music to my computer & transfer them to my Ipod, & Last time (a few months back), I played a CD rom program from my ASL cd, & also a cd rom game, but I can't play any DVD videos on my HP cd player.

Do you think I am doing something wrong here??? (or anyone else for that matter)

A friend of mine says that it is just a slight flaw from the HP company which I didn't recognize before. No I don't have the waranties anymore. I had this for a long time, I think 4 years. I always thought that I could play a movie on it.

I only got this Ipod this year, & tried to down load movies, but it didn't seem to work.

but, my ftriend said that he would send me a weblink to help reset it. Maybe that would work. He is rather busy, maybe it might take a while.

So, I guess I can't play the video that I got (Tom Yum Goong) Sorry.

Aloha.

[shaveice]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

hmmmm... i'm a little confused here. there are cd players and then there are dvd players. if you place a dvd into a cd player, i don't think it'll play.

another question: is this player of yours connected to your computer or is it connected to a tv?

so basically i'd like to know how you watch dvd movies: on your computer or on your tv?

once i understand your set up, i'll be in a better position to help you out!

[admin]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

You probably should move talk of misbehaving technology to Circuit Circus.

[Serenity]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

hmmmm... i'm a little confused here. there are cd players and then there are dvd players. if you place a dvd into a cd player, i don't think it'll play.

another question: is this player of yours connected to your computer or is it connected to a tv?

so basically i'd like to know how you watch dvd movies: on your computer or on your tv?

once i understand your set up, i'll be in a better position to help you out!

Sorry for the confusion.. My cd player on my computer is the one that doesn't play any Movies at all, only plays & down loads music.


One time, I actually tried to play a cd game on my computer, that worked, & that was many months ago.

I also tried (many months ago) to play a cd rom that came with my signlanguage book, on my computer, that worked,too.

What puzzles me the most, is that I can't play any movies on my computer.

I have no idea if I am doing anything wrong on my computer, or my computer is the one that doesn't play movies??

Well, hope that cleared up some confusion.

Aloha.

[Serenity]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

You probably should move talk of misbehaving technology to Circuit Circus.

Move it if you wish, just let me know if have moved it or not. Thanks.

[damontucker]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

Sorry for the confusion.. My cd player on my computer is the one that doesn't play any Movies at all, only plays & down loads music.


One time, I actually tried to play a cd game on my computer, that worked, & that was many months ago.

I also tried (many months ago) to play a cd rom that came with my signlanguage book, on my computer, that worked,too.

What puzzles me the most, is that I can't play any movies on my computer.

I have no idea if I am doing anything wrong on my computer, or my computer is the one that doesn't play movies??

Well, hope that cleared up some confusion.

Aloha.

Serenity...

Just because your computer can play CD's... it won't play DVD's unless you have a DVD Player on your computer.

When you purchased your computer...did is say it had a CD/DVD player?

[Serenity]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

Serenity...

Just because your computer can play CD's... it won't play DVD's unless you have a DVD Player on your computer.

When you purchased your computer...did is say it had a CD/DVD player?

I probably got my computer a few years ago maybe 2002/2003(?) some where around there.

Well, I guess it didn't say .

On my computer it just says: (top) hp cd-writer (bottom) expansion|bay.

But, I do have this other portable dvd player I found at home while I was cleaning one day which I forgot I had : Polaroid 8 inch portable DVD player (# PDV-0800)

& a friend of mine sold us this really cool one: Super DVD Writer 16x: DVD+RW/+R/CD-RW by pc/mac which I haven't had the chance to download the software to make it work. Maybe eventually I will.

(I don't know if this is the right website for it: iomega)

I think that will work with my HP/WindowsXP computer so that I can download movies into my IPOD?.

Message back when you can.

Aloha.

[admin]

Re: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

Move it if you wish, just let me know if have moved it or not. Thanks.

Serenity, I've split messages about your computer from the Muay Thai Kick Boxing thread. Hope folks here at the 'Threads can help you sort things out.

[Konaguy]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

CD-R/RW/CD-ROM drives only play CDs
DVD-R/RW drives play DVD/CDs.

[craigwatanabe]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

Also with XP you should be able to run DVD's once you install the DVD burner onto your computer without having to install the software. Windows Media Player (built into XP) should be able to play it.

Before you install the DVD burner in your computer you should check the specs on your computer to see if you have enough system resources to play DVD movies with little or no problems.

With XP you should have at least 512Mb of RAM Memory to run glitch free video. A stand alone graphics card will also help unload some of the video processing off the motherboard's onboard graphics chipset/motherboard processor. By upgrading these two elements (if not done so already) DVD playback will be decent.

[Konaguy]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

Also with XP you should be able to run DVD's once you install the DVD burner onto your computer without having to install the software. Windows Media Player (built into XP) should be able to play it.

Not necessarily. To play DVD's on any OS, you need the DVD codec to watch
any movies on your computer. If the DVD-RW drive comes with WinDVD, PowerDVD etc then it will have the DVD codec to decrypt the DVDs for viewing.

[adrian]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

sounds like a codec problem. Download this. If you want, I can come by and check it out, but I stay sick - I no like spread what I have.

[Konaguy]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

sounds like a codec problem. Download this. If you want, I can come by and check it out, but I stay sick - I no like spread what I have.

I'm not sure if that will help...It sounds like she is trying to play a DVD in a
CD-R/RW drive ?

[craigwatanabe]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

Yep Aaron is correct that you need some sort of DVD playing software, but you can download quite a few for free from Tucows nowdays. You don't necessarily need to install the dvd bundled software that came with your burner.

[adrian]

Re: PC CD/DVD Help

I'm not sure if that will help...It sounds like she is trying to play a DVD in a
CD-R/RW drive ?

But in Serenity's last post, she said that she has a DVD burner (unless she didn't install it and just has it collecting dust outside of the computer.)