Restoring DVD playback on Win 7 Home premium

NewUserIdAgain · 2011-07-24, 06:06 PM

Hi

I have lost the ability to play DVDs on my Win 7 home premium HTPC. most likely due to the installation of HDPack 2.5.

Does any one have an procedure to restore DVD playback?

HarryH3 · 2011-07-24, 09:31 PM

Open Control Panel and select "Auto Play". You can select what program starts CD's, DVD Movies, etc. from there. Smile

NewUserIdAgain · 2011-07-25, 09:22 AM

I think that the problem goes deeper than selecting program in the autoplay setup. Neither WMP or NPVR can play DVDs and I think that I'm missing some files or that some setting is corrupt and I would like to save my self a reinstall of windows.

kayleigh · 2011-08-10, 07:42 AM

Have you tried re-registering the default MS DLLs that come with Windows 7? Try typing this in a command line:

regsvr32 msmpeg2vdec.dll
regsvr32 msmpeg2adec.dll
regsvr32 msmpeg2enc.dll

You'll probably have to do run these commands as the Administrator. Let me know how you get on!

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