audio failure playing dvd

I'm new to playing dvd's and my daughter just got one for xmas - from us

We have one box running xp which seems to meet the minimum reqs. However the Interactual DVD Player which is bundled with Lord of the Rings (Return of the King) complained that the video subsystem wasn't good.

So I d/l'd and installed ELECARD MPEG 2 Player v 2.0. Now it complains that the audio subsystem isn't good. Yet Harry Potter - Prisoner of Askeban is running on this box and it's the newest game in the series.

Therefore I'm a bit stuck as to what to try next. I rebooted and made sure nothing else was running. The online help didn't help me either. Running directx 5.3 iirc.

I tried a different approach as well, creating a network share of the dvd-rom and then mapping it on my daughter's computer. However I can't find a way to open the share from the interactual dvd player software - it looks like if it doesn't find a dvd on the local drive, which is a cdrom only - then it just sits there completely useless.

Sort of like me... but on a more philosophical note as a professional programmer since 1980 I figure the more frustration my kids experience with the computers the more realistic an outlook they are developing.

Happy holiday all.

Marty

 

Pete,

I've taken two different approaches to this.

First, on a computer which has a Hitachi dvd/rom GD5000 on it I've tried. Using the software which came with the dvd itself get the msg that the audio subsystem isn't working. Using windows media player 10 I get a copyright problem warning with a link to a troubleshooter that turns out to be a dead link.

Second I wondered if it might be possible, by making the dvd-rom drive on that machine a network share to watch the dvd from another computer on my network, but I haven't found a way to do that.

Am I not knowing what the heck I'm doing here?

Marty

 

"video subsystem wasn't good" - Update video card drivers, and DX9.0c
"d/l'd and installed ELECARD MPEG 2 Player v 2.0" - What's wrong with the software included with the dvd player? What is it?
"creating a network share of the dvd-rom" - May only work if the same dvd playing software is installed on both machines...I've never tried it.
"Using the software which came with the dvd itself get the msg that the audio subsystem isn't working" - Update audio/sound card drivers (dx9 may help here too).
WMP 10 will always complain, if codec's are not installed. You MUST have an mpeg decoder installed. These always come with dvd player software, however it may not have installed correctly. Try here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Stinky_MPEG_2_Codec.htm