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    DVD movie won't play on F5VL

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Skyking, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. Skyking

    Skyking Newbie

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    I have an Asus-F5VL notebook. I recently had to reformat the hard drive. After I got Windows-XP loaded again, I decided to manually reload the drivers from the factory driver CD so I could chose which ones I wanted on the system. Now when I try to play a movie DVD in Media Player, I get an error message saying:

    "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer."

    Does this mean I didn't load one of the necessary drivers or applications from the factory driver CD? I didn't have this problem before I reformatted the drive. Also, how can I find out what each driver is for on the CD?

    Thanks
     
    Skyking, Jan 9, 2008
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    You're missing a needed codec along the way, probably. Something got skipped during your reformat; deciding and choosing which drivers to manually install can do that :). Can you read/burn to a data DVD (that would rule out a DVD driver issue)?

    Depending on how much work you want to put into this, I'd go looking for the Asus DVD player supplied with your F5, download something like VLC player to skirt the issue and simply enable your dvd playback, or do a complete (automatic) reinstall from Asus' recovery disc.
     
    ClearSkies, Jan 9, 2008
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