spadaman

Hey guys, Thank you all for your responses. I haven't been able to play with the system for a while but figured something out last night. I followed everyone's suggestions and also the tutorial suggested for troubleshooting the no DVD playback. Then a thought crossed my mind 'let me see if this drive even reads a disk.' I put a DVD in the drive and looked at My Computer, the drive title never changed to the title of the disk. Double clicked, could not access it. Put a CD in the drive, same thing. So I pulled the drive and switched it with another DVD drive from another system. sure enough, everything now works. As I stated earlier in this thread, I was able to play DVD's in VLC player before all this, so it seems some where along the line my drive burned out on me. with the new drive installed I am able to play DVD'd from WMP, VLC and GameEx. I know, I know, I should have thought to check the drive earlier but it worked before so I didnt think to check until everything else failed. Live and learn. Anyway, I am still having the radio issue where none of the pre-configured stations work so I'm not sure if I should mark this topic RESOLVED and start a new topic for the radio issue or should we continue to work on that here in this topic. Any suggestions on that? Thanks again guys.

I understood that setting to be the path to your burned DVD iso's so that the 'Enable DVD From Disk' feature above will know where to find your iso's. Ill try adding my DVD drive letter to the paths though and see what happens.

as far as I know it is a standard install of xp pro sp3. I am on integrated video.

No i am not able to play them in WMP. I only ever even tried playing DVD in VLC but after installing shark007 I have not been able to play them in VLC either. and even after uninstalling and reinstalling VLC still no. DVD Settings DVD Playback:...........Yes DVD MPEG 2 Codec:.......ArcSoft Video Decoder Use VMR9/EVR:...........Yes DVD Use FFDSHOW:........Yes Enable DVD From Disk:...Yes DVD From Disk Path/s:...my DVD Burns Folder Use External Player:....No External Player CMD:....(left blank) got the attached error screen of txt and its corresponding log file. I dont know, maybe I should have gotten this error having my codec be ArcSoft Video Decoder and DVD Use FFDSHOW set to yes. error.txt log.txt

I had restarted, yes. I went and set VMR9/EVR to yes. restarted again. Now after putting a dvd into the drive, I have to wait about 3 mins before the dvd drive activity light goes off, then I am able to navigate gameEx. At that point selecting Play DVD goes to a black screen, 'DVD player', states original aspect ratio, and then just remains black. My HDD activity light goes crazy. I am able to hit back or esc to return to gameEx. log.txt

just tried the ArcSoft Video Decoder again and the result is no different. I did discover that is seems that after some time, and the drive stops attempting to read the DVD, I am able to use my keyboard and mouse in gameEx again. log.txt

DVD Settings DVD Playback:...........Yes DVD MPEG 2 Codec:.......FFDSHOW Video Decoder (ArcSoft Video Decoder is the only other option listed) Use VMR9/EVR:...........No DVD Use FFDSHOW:........Yes Enable DVD From Disk:...Yes DVD From Disk Path/s:...my DVD Burns Folder Use External Player:....No External Player CMD:....(left blank) the attached log file is right after trying to play a DVD, but with DVD in the drive. I am unable to do anything in gameEx with a disk in the drive. the logDVD file is right after placing a DVD in the drive. log.txt logDVD.txt

I have uninstalled FFDSHOW and installed the shark007 vista codec pack, as I have XP, as you suggested. It did not fix any issues, in fact it created more. Now I can not play DVD's at all, inside or out of gameEx. If I am in gameEx and put a DVD in the drive it hangs gameEx, no response from the keyboard or mouse, however music continues to play. If I remove the disk from the drive, I can again use the keyboard and mouse. I uninstalled VLC player and then reinstalled it. This did not fix anything either. log.txt

Hello, I am new to the forum and GameEx. I downloaded and used GameEx for a while and decided to register. I did a lot of work setting up my menus and organizing my media to best suit my needs. But now I'm interested in more. I want to play DVD's directly from GameEx and I would like to set up a few radio stations. When I have a DVD in the drive, selecting Play DVD in GameEx just goes to a black screen. Sometimes it beeps and then returns to the GameEx Play DVD screen and sometimes it hangs the whole system, locking my keyboard and mouse and I'm unable to even use task manager to end process on what ever is hanging. I have FFDSHOW installed as well VLC player and I am able to play most DVD's on my system without GameEx. DVD Settings DVD Playback:...........Yes DVD MPEG 2 Codec:.......ArcSoft Video Decoder (FFDSHOW is not an option for some reason) Use VMR9/EVR:...........No DVD Use FFDSHOW:........Yes Enable DVD From Disk:...Yes DVD From Disk Path/s:...my DVD Burns Folder Use External Player:....No External Player CMD:....(left blank) I have not tried to set up any radio stations yet, however, none of the pre-configured stations play. Selecting play station from the Play station screen just causes the menu to animate away and then immediately animate back into view. I have no idea about this one. Any assistance or guidence anyone in the forum can give would be greatly appreciated.