MPC and Encrypted DVDs

[newWang]

Last night I was attempting to play a DVD with MPC that I have played before--with MPC. When I hit 'open disc' something to the effect of 'can't play encrypted dvd' was displayed in the status bar. This is a bit disconcerting because I had just played the exact same DVD with MPC the night before.

Any ideas? Could it have been an angry, sabotaging girlfriend?

Edit: A better question: What mechanism decrypts the DVDs for MPC?

[foxyshadis]

Haali's renderer has some issues with macrovision. You might try reconfiguring to VMR9, or installing ffdshow if it turns to be a decoder problem. To remove all encryption, just use DVD Fab HD Decryptor.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

1) What is the Title and Region number of the DVD?

2) Are you attempting to play your original, commercial DVD, or a backup copy?

[newWang]

@Foxyshadis

I'm not using the Haali Renderer so we can eliminate that. I am using VMR9 and ffdshow with MPEG2 DVD Decoding enabled. In this configuration does ffdshow do the decryption?

@setarip_old
I'm not sure of Title and region number as a I'm posting from work. The DVD I'm assuming is a US region dvd (whatever that is) as I rented it from Blockbuster. So this is an original commercial DVD done by Paramount. To be even more specific it's the Kids in the Hall movie "Brain Candy."

I was thinking that I may want to check to see if the girlfriend had disabled DVD decoding within ffdshow. Could I expect this exact behavior from MPC-HC if nothing else had changed but the "enable dvd decoding" checkbox had been unchecked?

[newWang]

I was able to get the DVD to play by using my on Lite-On DVD drive as oppposed to my newer Plextor DVD-R/RW drive. Now I'm really confused.

[setarip_old]

1) Not all drives are equally capable of reading "less than perfect" DVDs - such as rental DVDs that may have been previously mishandled.

Try cleaning the DVD and try running a DVD/CD cleaning disc on your Plextor. Maxell makes one that sells for about $10US.

2) Can you play OTHER DVDs on your Plextor (that also play on your Lite-On)?