How to play DVD movies...?

Vista Ultimate. I can't play on my drive some DVD movies. MS offers
some decoders on merchant's page but I'm still undecided and confused
what to do, wchich one to chose? Any ideas, suggestions what should I
chose?
Thanks in advance for suggestions.
Marek Kalisz

"Marek Kalisz" <kalisz_m@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Vista Ultimate. I can't play on my drive some DVD movies. MS offers
> some decoders on merchant's page but I'm still undecided and confused
> what to do, wchich one to chose? Any ideas, suggestions what should I
> chose?
> Thanks in advance for suggestions.
> Marek Kalisz

Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate will play DVDs out of the box either
in Windows Media Player, or Windows Media Center.

Knowing the error message that is thrown up would be helpful. Without that
my two stabs in the dark would say that a 3rd party MPEG2 decoder is
installed that doesn't work properly, or possibly an outdated video driver.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
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> Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate will play DVDs out of the box
> either in Windows Media Player, or Windows Media Center.
>
> Knowing the error message that is thrown up would be helpful. Without
> that my two stabs in the dark would say that a 3rd party MPEG2 decoder is
> installed that doesn't work properly, or possibly an outdated video driver

Thanks for answer. Meanwile I obtained Roxio gadget fo Vista, installed it
and... same result. I'm not an expert on media issues but... I have this DVD
(Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, December 11, 1968) send from our local
TV station as some reward for donation (support). I tried to play it on XP,
Vista and now Vista with add-ons. Ther results are the same: can't play this
movie When I start it shows abt. 1.5 minutes, then same track is playing
itself all around.
Yes, I can sometime play this movie (what's a pleasure - old times) after I
started to chack in Explorer tracks. Somewhere in the middle of this disk I
fouded a serie of continous tracks that can play this movie from the title
to the credits - all that.
I suspect that somethig might be wrong with this DVD: maybe somene
mismatched track copying this DVD?
Greetings to Britain.
Marek Kalisz