Playing DVDs and ArcadeVGA

[Lawrence]

Ugh... Been a painful day.

Was trying to troubleshoot why I can't play DVDs on my cab this morning... Didn't work in GameEx (I don't think I've ever tried on the cab before -- just assumed it worked since never had troubles on any other machines). So first thing I do is pull up Media Player and try. Doesn't work. It says, "Windows Media Player Cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card."

Just in case it was rights management crap I tried updating the BIOS to the latest. Didn't help. Tried about a dozen things and nothing worked. Finally, I tried updating the ati driver -- of course there are no new ArcadeVGA drivers, so I tried using the latest ATI Catalyst one (of course that will utterly destroy and get rid of the arcade resolutions, but just wanted to try and see if that would make playing DVDs work). After updating to the latest Catalyst drivers DVDs work in Media Player and in GameEx. I then rolled back to get the normal ArcadeVGA drivers (and the precious arcade resolutions) back. DVDs no longer work.

So, what the heck can I do? I know many of you have DVDs working on cabs with ArcadeVGA... What did you do to get it to work? I'm running Vista 64-bit and using the according ArcadeVGA drivers.

[bkenobi]

If you have a new fancy video card and/or new fancy monitor, then some of these have fancy copy protection built in. I don't have either, so I don't know what that gets you, but it has to do with HDMI stuff and some kind of encryption. Just a thought...

[wobbly]

have you tried any dvd here

may help

[Lawrence]

If you have a new fancy video card and/or new fancy monitor, then some of these have fancy copy protection built in. I don't have either, so I don't know what that gets you, but it has to do with HDMI stuff and some kind of encryption. Just a thought...

It's an ArcadeVGA (the PCIe model) with an arcade monitor (Wells-Gardner D9800 to be specific). Neither is new or fancy with copy protection built in. ...and definitely not HDMI.

[bkenobi]

Hmmm, then it must be a codec issue. That would have been my first thing to check, but I figured you might have already tried that.

[Lawrence]

The thing is, as I said above, it works great with the latest ATI drivers and will play DVDs fine with those -- but (of course) the latest ATI drivers don't include the ArcadeVGA stuff, so all the arcade resolutions go bye bye. So, seems to me that there must be some trick to getting the ArcadeVGA going with DVD, since there's obviously something in the standard ATI driver that is missing in the ArcadeVGA driver (the Vista 64-bit one anyways).

[wobbly]

as i said have you tried any dvd