DVD codec?

Sandmaster500

Sandmaster500

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Hi, at the moment i have two DVD drives in my main PC so i can watch region 1 and 2 DVDs. Haven't watched any for a fair bit though. Came to watch 'Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex' (region 2) yesterday and for some reason all the blacks were messed up. The pixels around any deep "black" blacks are really pronoused and ruin any bits with a lot of black :(

I've tried using NVDVD, WMP and realplayer and they all do the same thing. I'm pretty sure its down to the codec (using the one NVDVD gives - got from the driver CD from my graphics card (7800GT).

Anyone know if this is the cause and any solutions?

Many Thanks
Sandmaster500
 
Drive being used is a Sony DVD-ROM DDU1613.

Also just realised it says it is location 1 (1)

The DVD i'm trying to play says 2 PAL. Is this the wrong region or is it me being silly?
 
Cheers, p4radox told reminded me about that player ealier on and its sorted it out :)

Any idea if it will mean that the DVD will work in WMP and the like also?
 
Hi, might aswel use this thread for a little niggle i've got:

When i boot windows (XP pro SP2) it goes onto the log on screen even though i've only got one account. It only went like this after i did a windows update. Anyone know any fixes?

Thanks
 
lol, yer i know its very off origional topic but wasn't worth starting a new thread over.

bledd. - tried that and will test soon.

If it doesn't work i'll have a look over those threads

Thanks very much guys :)
 
Hi, it kind of worked. It now puts me to a "default" windows account rather than my own one. I'm guessing this is the .net account.

Did anyone else have a similar problem? Any fixes?

Thanks
 
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