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    CD player woes

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by tiking, Dec 27, 2009.

  1. tiking

    tiking Notebook Consultant

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    I have an issue with my CD player. I have a film on a disc I want to play through my computer. In fact I want to transfer it unto my computer so I can avoid the jerkiness. The funny thing is, when I put the CD into the player and wait for it to show up in explorer, it suddenly get an error message and then it freezes. The only way to break the sequence is if I remove the disc from the CD player. It has done this to several disc with .avi files and a divx files.

    Has anyone have any ideas? These conversions were done back in the late 90's and early 2000 to 2005. So I have not played these since then.
     
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  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hmm... I wonder if the discs are failing... have you got another CD drive to try it in?
    But then we have older audio CDs... (bought though)

    I assume regular audio CDs work fine?

    What is the error message?
     
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  3. tiking

    tiking Notebook Consultant

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    The only error message I'm getting is that: Explorer has stopped working and is about to exit. Then it freezes up. Weird. This is my laptop we're talking about not a separate player.
     
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    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Ok... have you got another computer to test the disc in? A DVD player that can play CDs with videos on?

    It could be a computer problem...
     
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  5. tiking

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    I tried the first one on another computer but it was the same. The second one worked. But I am curious to know why would the whole explorer stop if I did not even start the file?
     
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    That is indeed strange - I'd say a read error that causes an exception of some sort...
    The one that didn't work - Nero has a CD recovery tool (I just found that out today) something like that may work assuming something is broken on the disc...
     
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    Thanks. will give it a try.
     
    tiking, Dec 31, 2009
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    Failing discs + Explorer trying to read the video files to create a preview thumbnail = b0rk
     
    Nebelwand, Dec 31, 2009
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