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Open Roads Forum  >  Technology Corner  > decoder download Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  pinesman • View posts virginia Senior Member Joined: 08/21/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/05/09 06:12am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator My laptop did not have a dvd decoder on it so I downloaded one. Now there is a conflict and the sound card has been disabeled. It is a compaq running xp. Any ideas where to start? magicbus • View posts LBI, NJ or Nantucket, MA Senior Member Joined: 06/16/2002 View Profile Posted: 11/05/09 06:59am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I would uninstall the decoder or use System Restore to go back then find a different decoder and install that one. Dave Life doesn't come with a safety fence around it... enjoy it anyway. just_dave • View posts Bay City, MI Senior Member Joined: 04/18/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/05/09 09:57am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator and this time make sure to create a system restore point before doing the install. - Dave 2001 2500HD 6.0L 4.10 4x4 1999 Jayco Eagle 285BHS 5er Thank you Lord! Draw-Tite 16K with Kwik-Slide Prodigy Bilsteins (on the truck) Monroes (on the 5er) Roady2 XM Radio Perception Swifty 9.5 Kayaks Pelican Break Kayak pinesman • View posts virginia Senior Member Joined: 08/21/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/05/09 12:15pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator This laptop is 1 1/2 years old and came with vista. After my step daughter crashed it in college, I put a new hard drive in it and loaded it with xp. My tech buddy says the problem is making the software believe it is vista. I think I am going to reload the soundcard driver for the manufacturer and try that. magicbus • View posts LBI, NJ or Nantucket, MA Senior Member Joined: 06/16/2002 View Profile Posted: 11/05/09 12:18pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Not sure about "making the software believe it is vista" if you are running XP but your plan sounds like an excellent idea! Dave Gdetrailer • View posts PA Senior Member Joined: 01/05/2007 View Profile Posted: 11/05/09 05:41pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Reinstalling the sound drivers might help but you may need to remove the offending Codec first which is what started the problem in the first place. Playing with the Codecs is a sure fire way to mess up a PC. Once you get your sound card working again, I would recommend downloading and installing VLC Player instead of using Windows Media player for DVDs, CDs, flash videos and such. VLC installs its own Codecs which will not clash with built in Windows Codecs. VLC is a free download! DOWNLOAD VLC pinesman • View posts virginia Senior Member Joined: 08/21/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/06/09 04:35am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Well, I took off the decoder program and got my sound back and color quality right again. I tried he vlc but it starts to play a dvd then immediately stops. Any more ideas? 1492 • View posts Virginia, USA Senior Member Joined: 04/08/2005 View Profile Posted: 11/06/09 05:43am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator You may also want to give the freeware Media Player Classic Home Cinema a try, and see if you're experiencing the same issue. Is this happening on both commercial DVD and DVD-R discs? Also, did you install the latest video drivers for your graphics card? pinesman • View posts virginia Senior Member Joined: 08/21/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/06/09 06:21am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I have only tried commercial movies. It could possibly be that I don't have vlc entirely figured out, but I do notthink that is the problem. pinesman • View posts virginia Senior Member Joined: 08/21/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/06/09 03:46pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator We finally have success. My only real mistake was buying a program. I took that off and my other problems were solved. I tried the VLC but could not get it to work either so I took it back off. When I tried the classic media player download, everything works now. Thanks. kb Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Open Roads Forum  >  Technology Corner  > decoder download

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