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Software: Media Player Classic
Drive: Pioneer BDCTD03RT (USB, external)
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Decoder: AnyDVD HD (as I prefer to use MPC than bloatware)
I have 2 laptops, an HP and a Samsung. The internal drive on both machines play all of my DVDs fine. I also use the external Pioneer so that I can play blu-rays on both laptops. Everything is set to R2 and my discs are either R2 or regionless, or region B for blu-rays. Jumanji, Bugsy Malone and a few Disney DVDs all play fine.
However, when I play any Studio Ghibli e.g. Howl's Moving Castle or any of my South Park boxsets, the menus work fine, but when I click on "play feature", MPC returns error message "dvd incompatible disc and decoder regions". The drive letter disappears as well!
Inserting a blu-ray simply causes the drive letter to disappear too! It comes back when the media is removed.
Family videos e.g. me moving into my new house in 2006 and Granny's 80th birthday play fine.
Any idea why the 2 laptop drives are ok, but the Pioneer is rather 'selective' with DVDs and doesn't acknowledge blu-ray media at all?
Drive: Pioneer BDCTD03RT (USB, external)
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Decoder: AnyDVD HD (as I prefer to use MPC than bloatware)
I have 2 laptops, an HP and a Samsung. The internal drive on both machines play all of my DVDs fine. I also use the external Pioneer so that I can play blu-rays on both laptops. Everything is set to R2 and my discs are either R2 or regionless, or region B for blu-rays. Jumanji, Bugsy Malone and a few Disney DVDs all play fine.
However, when I play any Studio Ghibli e.g. Howl's Moving Castle or any of my South Park boxsets, the menus work fine, but when I click on "play feature", MPC returns error message "dvd incompatible disc and decoder regions". The drive letter disappears as well!
Inserting a blu-ray simply causes the drive letter to disappear too! It comes back when the media is removed.
Family videos e.g. me moving into my new house in 2006 and Granny's 80th birthday play fine.
Any idea why the 2 laptop drives are ok, but the Pioneer is rather 'selective' with DVDs and doesn't acknowledge blu-ray media at all?