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Just cuirous where GameEx grabs the DVD cover art from. Some of my on-disk DVD's have the wrong covers and I thought I'd check out the web site if possible to see what they should be named. Geoff
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Well, it's working now. I turned off FFDSHOW and switched to the old Cyberlink Video/SP codec (the one that came with PowerDVD version 5), and everything is working like a champ. After I saw your post I checked to see if I had a file called graph.grf -- and I did not. However now that I got it working graph.grf has appeared... Thanks for your help!! Let me know if I can give you any additional info that might help people with similar problems in the future... Geoff
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Oddly the FFDSHOW configuration program has the MPEG1 and MPEG2 checkboxes grayed out so I can't select them... not sure why that is. I have everything else checked (MPG4, etc). It made no difference to the GameEx config screen, but I am guessing that is because I can't pick MPEG2... Geoff
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I deleted PowerDVD and downloaded and installed the trial of PowerDVD 7, and got the same results -- except that it takes a few seconds longer before returning from the black screen to GameEx. I can definitely play the DVD under PowerDVD 7. Also there are two new codecs available under the GameEx config now -- Cyberlink Video/SP Decode, and Cyberlink H.265/AV decoder. I tried both with the same results. Thanks - Geoff
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I just tried installing GameEx on another PC I have -- an e-machine running Windows XP Home. Has PowerDVD version 5 on it. I'm getting the same results. I put in two different DVDs (actual discs, not ripped to the drive) and tried to play them in GameEx with no success -- same behavior: black screen, 'chirp', back to GameEx. Both discs play fine from PowerDVD on the new system as well. Is there somewhere that I need to tell GameEx what drive the DVD is supposed to be on? I don't remember seeing this setting, and I didn't set it. Geoff
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I running XP Home. The DVD codecs that are available in the GameEx configuration menu are MainConcept MPEG Video Decoder and Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder. I've got a Sony DVD burner in the computer, which is a home-brew, but pretty powerful (Athlon 51). In response to the other suggestion, I'm pretty sure that I've got MPEG-2 decoding working since I am able to play DVDs using both Winamp and PowerDVD. Would it help if I posted any of my config information? I reviewed the log and it wasn't too helpful (at least for me). No errors indicated... Thanks - Geoff
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I am a new (registered) user of Game-Ex, and I've got MAME, Jukebox, photos, and other stuff all working great -- But I cannot for the life of me get the DVD player working, either from an actual DVD or copied to the hard drive. I just downloaded the latest version of Game Ex (6.53). I am running on Win XP. When I choose either Play DVD or DVD's from the Multimedia menu I just get a black screen for a few seconds followed by a 'chirp' (the same sound made when selecting a menu item in GameEx) and then it returns back to the GameEx menu. I can play the DVD that is in the drive using either Windows Media Player (v9) or PowerDVD, both installed on this computer. I tried the 16-bit setting and the VMR-9 switch, and changed codecs, and nothing seems to help. Also, on another topic, I am using DVDFab Decryptor to rip my DVDs onto my hard drive. This is the first time I've tried ripping DVDs and I'm curious of there is a second step I need to take -- it places a series of files in the designated directory, but do I need to recombine them into an ISO image or something like that to play them from the drive? Or should GameEx or similar programs be able to handle them in that format? Thanks - Geoff