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<blockquote data-quote="RobNorthcott" data-source="post: 538355" data-attributes="member: 57999">I recently had the same problem as the OP of this thread.&nbsp; But for me it's not all DVDs that won't play, just some of them.&nbsp; I'm using all PDVD7 codecs for DVD in MP, but for some reason it won't play some DVDs (hangs just like the OP describes, with DVD drive thrashing about like it's a damaged disc).&nbsp; All the problematic DVDs play in PowerDVD7 itself.&nbsp; I've tried fiddling with codecs (audio and video) in MP but I can only make it worse.&nbsp; I had one over the weekend that my daughter had borrowed from the library - couldn't play it.&nbsp; Disc was new-looking (not scratched to bits like some of the children's DVDs from the library).&nbsp; Sometimes I've had success copying the disc to the hdd first, but couldn't do that because it was massively copy-protected.&nbsp; I was about to give up and assume it would only play in a &quot;real&quot; DVD player, then decided to try PDVD - played it perfectly.So, what's the difference between playing a DVD in MP using PDVD7 codecs and playing it using the PDVD front-end?&nbsp; Does it do it a completely different way?&nbsp; It's not really that much of a problem for me personally because we very rarely play DVDs (and quite a few of them work in MP anyway), but it would be nice not to have to get the keyboard out to run PDVD for those ones that won't play in MP if anybody knows a solution.Rob</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobNorthcott, post: 538355, member: 57999"] I recently had the same problem as the OP of this thread. But for me it's not all DVDs that won't play, just some of them. I'm using all PDVD7 codecs for DVD in MP, but for some reason it won't play some DVDs (hangs just like the OP describes, with DVD drive thrashing about like it's a damaged disc). All the problematic DVDs play in PowerDVD7 itself. I've tried fiddling with codecs (audio and video) in MP but I can only make it worse. I had one over the weekend that my daughter had borrowed from the library - couldn't play it. Disc was new-looking (not scratched to bits like some of the children's DVDs from the library). Sometimes I've had success copying the disc to the hdd first, but couldn't do that because it was massively copy-protected. I was about to give up and assume it would only play in a "real" DVD player, then decided to try PDVD - played it perfectly. So, what's the difference between playing a DVD in MP using PDVD7 codecs and playing it using the PDVD front-end? Does it do it a completely different way? It's not really that much of a problem for me personally because we very rarely play DVDs (and quite a few of them work in MP anyway), but it would be nice not to have to get the keyboard out to run PDVD for those ones that won't play in MP if anybody knows a solution. Rob [/QUOTE]

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