Playing A DVD

[jeffremiller]

I've recently added a DVD ROM to my cabinet and want to play DVDs. When I insert the disk, I receive the Play DVD popup, but when selected, the machine pauses, screen flickers black and it returns to GameEx.

Is there a brief tutorial to get this working?

[Brian Hoffman]

My first thought is you do not have the proper codecs installed on your machine.

Does the DVD play outside gameex using windows media player?

[DanG]

It is most definitely the codec. I beat my brains out over this one, dug through the forum a bit, and then installed every codec at my disposal.

Turned out the Dell WinDVD that came with the machine did not work (version 3). Haven't gotten the FFDshow codecs to work either, but WinDVD 7 did.

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[jeffremiller]

I reloaded my system as part of the migration to 64 bit MAME.

The specs are now:

Vista Ultimate 64 bit

Core 2 Duo 2.3

2 GB RAM

I loaded the Shark007 CODEC pack and utilities and the DVD plays fine in Media Player and MCE but not within GameEx...

Log shows the following:

Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

17:11:07.4 9/16/2009: at DvdCore.DvdEngineClass.Init()

at u.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, String A_2, String A_3, Boolean A_4)

Thoughts?

[Tom Speirs]

I reloaded my system as part of the migration to 64 bit MAME.

The specs are now:

Vista Ultimate 64 bit

Core 2 Duo 2.3

2 GB RAM

I loaded the Shark007 CODEC pack and utilities and the DVD plays fine in Media Player and MCE but not within GameEx...

Log shows the following:

Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

17:11:07.4 9/16/2009: at DvdCore.DvdEngineClass.Init()

at u.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, String A_2, String A_3, Boolean A_4)

Thoughts?

Do other videos play in GameEx?

[jeffremiller]

Previews play... But full screen seems to be a problem. Tried one of the Vista sample videos and it never started playing in full screen.

[jeffremiller]

Do other videos play in GameEx?

I spent some time with this last night. AVI movies seem to play just fine in GameEx. Had some issues with WMV as noted above. DVD still shows the error listed above, but plays fine in Media Center.

[jeffremiller]

I have now tested with several AVI and MPG files... all seem to play well.

I will mess with the DVD Playback setting later this evening, but DVDs play fine outside of GameEx.

Any thoughts as to the earlier posted error in the logs?

[Tom Speirs]

I have now tested with several AVI and MPG files... all seem to play well.

I will mess with the DVD Playback setting later this evening, but DVDs play fine outside of GameEx.

Any thoughts as to the earlier posted error in the logs?

Have you tried turning on VMR9 as suggested in the FAQ?

[jeffremiller]

Yes... tested both on and off.

[headkaze]

Yes... tested both on and off.

What codec are you using for DVD playback? The Vista Codec Pack does not provide an MPEG2 codec for DVD playback that is compatible with MCE AFAIK. So you must be using some other codec. Personally I use the "NVIDIA Video Decoder" but it's a commercial codec (ie. Costs money). If you have WinDVD somewhere that will install an MCE compatible codec aswell. You can run a program called DecCheck to find out which one you are using. But as I said I recommend the NVIDIA one.

[troy]

I am currently having the same issue - but like I mentioned in my other topic (posting here just to show I did find it)..

DVDs WERE playing correctly, then I wanted to get M4vs working, so I installed the Shark codecs and ffdshow codecs, and DVDs not working. But not m4v's are. I reinstalled the nvidia codecs, but still no dice.

BEFORE:

DVDs work

M4Vs dont

NOW

DVDs do not work

M4Vs will

I guess id rather have it like it is now since I can play dvds on my DVD player, but still - I wonder why it suddenly stopped.

[Tom Speirs]

I am currently having the same issue - but like I mentioned in my other topic (posting here just to show I did find it)..

DVDs WERE playing correctly, then I wanted to get M4vs working, so I installed the Shark codecs and ffdshow codecs, and DVDs not working. But not m4v's are. I reinstalled the nvidia codecs, but still no dice.

BEFORE:

DVDs work

M4Vs dont

NOW

DVDs do not work

M4Vs will

I guess id rather have it like it is now since I can play dvds on my DVD player, but still - I wonder why it suddenly stopped.

I suspect in this case the mpeg2 codec was changed by installing the codec pack. What MPEG2 codec do you have set. Yourll probably need to change it, as I think it defaults to ffdshow after installing the codec pack, and ffdshow is set by default not to be able to play dvds in the shark codec admin.

[troy]

I suspect in this case the mpeg2 codec was changed by installing the codec pack. What MPEG2 codec do you have set. Yourll probably need to change it, as I think it defaults to ffdshow after installing the codec pack, and ffdshow is set by default not to be able to play dvds in the shark codec admin.

I think you are right. I actually had to go into the configuration tool and choose a codec. What I did do was install a trial version of Cyberlink as well... so Im not sure what corrected it, but everything seems to be working again now.

So the only thing on my "checklist" is getting Daphne working right. One of these days!

Troy

[Brian Hoffman]

I think you are right. I actually had to go into the configuration tool and choose a codec. What I did do was install a trial version of Cyberlink as well... so Im not sure what corrected it, but everything seems to be working again now.

So the only thing on my "checklist" is getting Daphne working right. One of these days!

Troy

Wow, Im happy to see its working. There are a few threads here regarding Daphne, some by yours truly. We can get you sorted out.