Dell Inspiron 5150 DVD problem

My DVD player has been giving me troubles for some time now. Before it was just that the sound was incredibly low, almost silent. But now DVDs won't play at all. I just get an error that says:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a problem occurred with digital copyright protection"

But it is a legally obtained DVD, not a burned disk or pirated copy.

Any help would be awesome, thanks.

 

Maybe it's just something wrong with your OS. Maybe you should try to re-install your system.

 

do you have any dvd codecs installed such as Matroska pack? I had issues with the codecs i got from Matroska giving me that issue. you might try uninstalling any extra codecs you might have. also, try playing it with the PowerDVD software and see if you have the same problem.

 

I don't know exactly where my os cds are at this moment, but ill look for them and try it. as far as codecs, I have a lot of different Divx packs because at first when i tried playing .avi files in media player there was no picture, and they fixed that problem. I will try uninstalling those as well. And yeah, my powerdvd has the same problem.

And just in case anyone else is having the same problem...I found a program call VideoLAN that lets you play DVDs on your computer without any copyright info, so that works as well, but I would still like to get this problem resoved, so thank you to juz_follow_ATI and KidA for your help.

 

yeah im 100% sure its one of those codec packs installing a DVD codec thats causing issues with WMP. If you can find it, Codec Detective is a good thing to have, it also comes with XP Codec pack from freecodecs.com. XP codec pack pretty much has everything you need, and doesn't cause the DVD copyright problem. But you could install Codec Detective, then just delete the DVD related codecs one by one until you can get it to work right. PowerDVD by itself should work too.