Hi, I tried playing a DVD on my Sony DRU800A and the following message appeared. I have Nero 9 and thought that it would play the DVD. I lost the original disk that came with the drive and Sony's storage website doesn't have it for download. What is a DVD decoder? Thanks for your help. Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer.

You need DVD playback software such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. You can get the commercial trials from here: http://www.filehippo.com/software/dvd/ Or you can try one of the free open source players such as VLC, MPlayer, Media Player Classic: http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Hi, I tried VLC and it worked on one DVD but other DVD's played but there were blotches all over the video. I tried using Nero Show Time, but I get a message that says, The application requires DirectDraw Acceleration, which is not available in your system. Please enable it in 'DirectX Diagnostic Tool' (dxdiag.exe) in the tad 'Display'. How do I enable this? I tried finding the tool but can't find it. Thanks, Veets

Hi, Here is an update! I went on google and found where to enable it. It works fine now!! Thanks so much for your help! Veets