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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Technology and Gaming => Topic started by: costargh on August 24, 2008, 09:13:25 pm
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I bought HSM (High School Musical) 1 & 2 yesterday right.
I tried playing HSM2 on laptop but instead of it autoplaying the dvd or offering an option to play the dvd it just open up audio and video folders. There is no option for me to play the dvd even when i right click on the dvd in my computer.
However HSM1 is fine when i put it in and it plays liike any normal dvd should
WHAT IS WRONG??? IM REALLY CUT
(both dvds work fine on a normal dvd player)
Extra info: both the audio and video folders are blank when I click into them
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Windows Media Player -> Play -> DVD
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Tried, doesnt work.
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i think its something wrong with ur DVD Then
take it back and get a refund
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What happens if you try another DVD (ie not HSM, I assume you watch something else in your life. I hope so, anyway 0=) )
I dont know I am just trying to suggest things :P
It could be some silly piracy thing or something, some of my cds show up blank unless I use itunes on them.
Don't listen to any of this advice btw I'm not very good at computers. I just chuck ideas out there :P
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I cbf trying another DVD but HSM1 playing on it is a testament that other DVD's do work.
Yeh I was thinking it could be a piracy thing but that would be really annoying and I don't know why the wouldnt have done it with HSM 1 then.
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1. What programs have you used so far to try and play DVD
2. Make the effort to find a legit DVD of a movie if you have one
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I had Dell Media something, Windows Media player, VLC player...
I thing is... it doesnt even give me an option to play the dvd. but it works on dvd players :S
I'll give anyone who gets it to work for me a lollipop
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I found something that might be related to it
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f88/problem-high-school-musical-2-a-240568/
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Extra info: both the audio and video folders are blank when I click into them
You're disc doesn't contain any Audio or Video files?
I think you got ripped off rofl
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try dragging the file called VIDEO_TS.IFO from the DVD into one of the media players, or going file>open>VIDEO_TS.IFO (it will be in the videos folder)
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try dragging the file called VIDEO_TS.IFO from the DVD into one of the media players, or going file>open>VIDEO_TS.IFO (it will be in the videos folder)
see:
Extra info: both the audio and video folders are blank when I click into them
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Also, have you tried on just a standard DVD player?
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Also, have you tried on just a standard DVD player?
I bought HSM (High School Musical) 1 & 2 yesterday right.
I tried playing HSM2 on laptop but instead of it autoplaying the dvd or offering an option to play the dvd it just open up audio and video folders. There is no option for me to play the dvd even when i right click on the dvd in my computer.
However HSM1 is fine when i put it in and it plays liike any normal dvd should
WHAT IS WRONG??? IM REALLY CUT
(both dvds work fine on a normal dvd player)
Extra info: both the audio and video folders are blank when I click into them
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I installed Vista service pack 1 last nite from windows update or whatever but i havent tried the dvd yet... might work ill try when i get home
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I cbf trying another DVD but HSM1 playing on it is a testament that other DVD's do work.
Yeh I was thinking it could be a piracy thing but that would be really annoying and I don't know why the wouldnt have done it with HSM 1 then.
Piracy...thing?
Could very well be a copy protection thing, actually. Some people have problems when they've bought something and are unable to play it due to DRM (Digital Rights Management) software. The irony is that pirated software, as much as I do not condone it, often does not have this software or circumvents it - at the expensive of malware risk to your computer and possible prosecution.
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I dont think this has anything to do with DRM, its the first time i have heard of a DVD with DRM acting that way-and besides dont DVD's rely on that whole CSS protection thing (or is that part of DRM)? Anyways.. from my experience (what ever that means) working with DVDs and such, such an issue usually occurs if the DVD has not been encoded properly at the burning stage- and yes i get that it works in a an ordinary DVD player but i have had a very similar thing happen to me before. I remember once when i went and burnt a family video onto a DVD it played in the regular lounge room DVD player but on a computer i had to go to special effort to make it play.
ALso you know how you said you cant see anything in the folders, have you anabled the ability to see 'hidden files', because the files may be present but simply not shown.
.....Or why not try 'dvd shrink' on the DVD in question and try to transfer the main video file(s) from the DVD to the HD. Although i wonder how many copyright laws it would break.. along with a CSS decrypter ::)
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It would be breaching section 100something of the Copyright Act - Circumvention of Copy Protection Measures.