I need help....My media player is set at code 2(i can't change it anymore), but something is wrong, my code 2 disc won't play properly. it either freeze my player(media player, divx, vlc) or there's no sound(when i sucessfully play it on media player, and i DID not turn it mute. but, when my sister plays her vcd on media player, there's sound. Later on, i rip BlueBird dvd out with DVD Descripter, but there's no sound when i play it with my media player.

Days ago, truehappiness found me a nice software to make my computer region free, after installing it. i tried to play my code 2 dvd, but it won't play, all my players freeze. later, i tried with code 3 disc, this time it plays , but no sound.
therefore, i suspect there's someting wrong with my settings. Can anyone help me out here?

.......anyone.....please help....

What software did truehappiness suggest to you?
Do you get any sound at all out of your computer? can you play mp3s? oh right your sis can play VCD...

absolutely no error messages from any of your video programs?

Do you remember anything around the time when your computer started doing that? Anything you could've possibly done to cause this? Any prior problems? Any problems you already had?

She only messed with your windows media player? Cause you're saying there are problems with all your media players... It's weird if she only messed with windows media player and somehow affected basic settings that affect the whole computer. I think that when she changed the region code, it was actually the region code for the DVD drive. It makes sense that if she messed around with the settings for the DVD drive, any problems would affect all programs trying to read DVDs. It would explain why VCDs work fine, since they don't have regions. Hmmm you said you tried a region 3? But if you're stuck at region 2, how could region 3 have worked?

Ok so it can't be the DVD drive itself, since the same thing happens with isos. Has to be something wrong in the software, but at the windows level, not anything wrong with a specific program. Maybe it's the codecs. When you play DVDs, does it always play, but without sound? Does it still freeze?

Also, try turning off truehappiness's program and trying both region 2 and region 3. When you try region 3, it should reject it, but I'm wondering if a settings window will pop up, maybe showing us what your sister messed with.

What kind of settings did it prompt you with? Man seriously this is weird...

This problem has not occured to me before...try searching the help section?

I dont know if it can be helpful but why dont you try to play dvd with programs like Powerdvd?

Audio and language, and subtitles, are DVD specific, so mine are greyed out because I don't have a disk in my drive right now. So they shouldn't matter. When you have the DVD in, just make sure something is selected for audio and language, I suppose. Umm are all enhancements disabled? Also, is parental control disabled in the options menu? Although if VLC is messing up in the same way, and all your other players are too, then the problem is probably deeper somehow.

I posted sth at the SG thread you always visit...

anyway DVD+ are more friendly...

anyway if nothing works and you dun know how to reset the settings...just reinstall everything and try again...do update me at the SG thread...I dun think I will visit here often...

I'd just uninstall the DVD Region thing~

And then try again :]

Can you play regular media files just fine?

Is there any other computer in the house you can test on? :o

I don't see any reason why isos mounted with daemon tools on a virtual drive wouldn't work... That's saying that the problem is a software problem not affecting media in general, only all DVD-playback, yet the problem is not specific to the DVD drive. It seems to be a problem, fundamentally, with the DVD playback...perhaps something wrong with the process by which DVDs are decoded during playback. Maybe reinstalling something would fix it, but I have no idea what you could try reinstalling...

When did you purchase your DVD drive?

Ok so your drive is rpc2. That means the number of times you can change the region is hard-wired into the drive. Therefore, I don't see any reason why using up all the region-changes would cause a software problem. If we can't figure out any other options, is it possible for you to reinstall windows?

Umm windows reinstall should be possible with windows xp cd...if you REALLY wanna kill this problem, you can try backing up all your data and using your restore disk to restore the computer to factory condition (assuming you didn't custom make your computer). Then you would have to reinstall EVERYTHING afterwards.

Hmmm I tried to reinstall windows xp (without wiping the hard drive clean), but I couldn't figure out how. Deleting everything and starting from scratch shouldn't be hard to do, though. A probable last resort solution would be to backup all your files and then use the restore disk (which puts your computer back into the state in which you bought it). Know what I mean?

LOL....Lacus...this was the thing I suggested to you when you visited me the other day....remormatting the computer...the backup can kill if you have lots of media....the reformatting won't take exactly super long...like say 2 hours- 3 hours...including installing all you hardware/software drivers ....excluding updating your software from the net....and you are gonna ask me how to do that....backup 1st then...when you are ready...contact me again...(no guarantee!)