Solve : DVD RW wont play DVD's?

1.	Solve : DVD RW wont play DVD's?
Answer» I've spent so many hours on this I am banging my head against the desk... Situation: I BOUGHT a DVD burner cause my old one is dying. That one had no problem playing DVD Videos. This one will play CD's and Burn DATA dvd's but balks at the Videos. I have a Fujitsu Lifebook Eseries pentium 4 running XP, radeon IGP 340m graphics card the DVD burner is an External I/O Magic 20X DVD RW http://www.iomagic.com/Products/show_all_results.asp?ProdID=IDVD20DLE I get numberous Error messages when I try to play them: Windows Media Player 11 says, "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card." -I went to Fujitsu's website and they didn't have any driver newer than my old one. Nero Showtime says something about CSS copyright protection AnyDVD says the disk might be dirty or I might be in the wrong region I was able to check the region and it is 1 just as it should be I contacted I/O Magic and was given a key to download Power DVD. I did, and the program just freezes. A friend said download VLC player. I did, and nothing happens when I try to play the dvd. In my internet searches I found suggestions intended for other dvd burners with similar problems and tried downloading codecs which did not see any results. There were suggestions of getting new firmware, and I tried using supplied software to do so, but I think it just freezes and doesn't do it's job. I even tried pluggin into my roomates COMPUTER (he runs VISTA) and recieved the same error message in WMP.Bad drive out of box?My thought too Alan <><

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I've spent so many hours on this I am banging my head against the desk...

Situation: I BOUGHT a DVD burner cause my old one is dying. That one had no problem playing DVD Videos. This one will play CD's and Burn DATA dvd's but balks at the Videos. I have a Fujitsu Lifebook Eseries pentium 4 running XP, radeon IGP 340m graphics card
the DVD burner is an External I/O Magic 20X DVD RW http://www.iomagic.com/Products/show_all_results.asp?ProdID=IDVD20DLE

I get numberous Error messages when I try to play them:

Windows Media Player 11 says, "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card."
-I went to Fujitsu's website and they didn't have any driver newer than my old one.
Nero Showtime says something about CSS copyright protection
AnyDVD says the disk might be dirty or I might be in the wrong region
I was able to check the region and it is 1 just as it should be

I contacted I/O Magic and was given a key to download Power DVD. I did, and the program just freezes.
A friend said download VLC player. I did, and nothing happens when I try to play the dvd.
In my internet searches I found suggestions intended for other dvd burners with similar problems and tried downloading codecs which did not see any results.
There were suggestions of getting new firmware, and I tried using supplied software to do so, but I think it just freezes and doesn't do it's job.

I even tried pluggin into my roomates COMPUTER (he runs VISTA) and recieved the same error message in WMP.Bad drive out of box?My thought too

Alan <><

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