DVD drive

My DVD player won't play movies, but will play regular cds/audio/data. I've reinstall the software, and nothing. It says the "d" drive is not accessable. Like I said the cd's work great! Any clue's

 

In your DVD software does it have a setting to pick the drive. If so make sure it is set to D your DVD drive. The other thing is you may have to have the region set for the country of DVD you are playing.

 

DVD player

Yes, all the setting are good. If I have a bad dvd drive, would it still play regular cd's? Gateway tech's believe I have a bad dvd drive. But, why does it operate regular cd software's?

 

It's my understanding that most DVD-ROMs contain a seperate optical eye for reading DVDs and CDs (due to differences in the formats, I guess), if this is true than it could be that the eye that handles CDs for you works fine, while the DVD eye is damaged. Can anyone else verify this?

 

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I donot think about two eyes for cd / dvd but reason could be graphic card or RAM/ virtual memory ,as content of dvd to play required lot of cpu memory also check other option in dvd player properties viz. video/ audio try to select / deselect and configure your dvdplayer also look for graphic card driver update ., unlike regular RGB signal for monitor DVD files has YUV signals which are processed by graphic card something called overlay which your graphic card should support , try to reduce resolution by 16 bit instead 32 bit, and try .