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Hi
I was wondering if you can get your CD-RW drives play DVD's ? I'm sure i did it at somepointAnyone know if you can do it what you have to do?
Cheers
Liam
a number of cdrw drives read dvd. you just need the dvd reader software installed.
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"I'm sure i did it at somepoint"....
The above NEVER happened, simply because it is physically impossible for a CDRW to play DVD's.
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Unless the drive happens to be a combo drive: CD-RW/DVD. Then your drive could read and play DVDs(if you have the necessary DVD decoder to play them).
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Sbocaj, just send it to me, I could use another DVD player...LOL.
Actually, try power DVD and I'm sure it will work, or search for other free DVD softwareHopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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There seems to be confusion. First one needs a special drive to read a DVD. Then one needs either a special board or now mostly an application to view video.
If you only have a CD-RW drive it will never read any DVD that I know of. If you have a DVD reader then again you would need a way to view it.
The statement that "at one point it did" suggests to me that it may be a DVD reader. The system properties would help show that if one looked it up further on the web. Then one would need some sort of way to decode the information. Some computers have a hardware solution while now a days most use a software application to view dvd's.
Your first step is to see if in fact you have a DVD reader.
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The main problem with the drive (Liteon stand alone 16X DVD+-R/+-RW drive, Double layer writing) is that when burning a video via Studio9 it freezes, whether writing to DVD's or Cd's. I have been told to have patience because it takes a long time, so I left a 20 minute video burning all night and it didn't move. Burning the video on my CD drive takes around seventeen minutes, but of course this is no good for longer home movies
Alan J.
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Sbocaj you really should not stomp on Liam's post. Two very different issues here.
I read Liam's post as that he was able to play dvd's which means he would have [like I do] a standard cdrw-dvdr.
I haven't seen a just only cdrw in quite some time. No special board or video card required with a cdrw-dvdr drive.
Liam reinstall your dvd reader software. I would bet some software or update trashed it.
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Sbocaj,
Do you have the ide controller in the device manager set to "DMA if available" instead of "PIO Only"?
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liam,
"I'm sure i did it at somepoint"
Maybe what you watched before was a VCD and not a DVD. VCD's can be written to standard cd's.D4Dog
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