Unable to Play DVD in XP using Parallels

Hi everybody,

Would be super grateful if someone can help me out. I'm unable to play any DVD's in my XP. I tried using VLC player as well as Real Player. When using VLC Player don't get any error message as such, it just doesn't play. However when using Real Player, it first indicates I need to download an update. The udpate is just a couple of KB in size and after real player does that I immediately get the attached error message (i.e. You must have DVD software installed on your computer...). Any idea how I can get round this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Arif
Bangalore, India

 

Play it in OSX.

 

Can't play multi region in OSX :-(

Would love to play it in OSX, put I've got DVD's from a region other than what my DVD player is set to. :-( In XP all I need to do is play it in VLC player and vola! it works. But can't get that working in my MacBook as of yet. Still hopeful...

Arif
Bangalore, India

 

VLC Player is available for the Mac.

 

Hi Thanks for the speedy reply Palter.

I do have VLC player for the Mac, but there are a number of horror reviews out there that is enough to keep me away from using it to play my DVD's. Don't get me wrong it's fine to use it to play other video files, but user-reviews indicate that if used to play multi-region DVD's, it plays them fine without any alerts, but once you've changed the region 5 times, the VLC player as well as your regular mac DVD player lockup with the last region inserted.

 

I thought VLC's DVD playback was independent of the region lock?

 

VLC ignores region codes. See http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/fea..._Video_LAN_Client_VLC.html?detectflash=false&
or google "VLC region"

VLC is open source, and region coding is enforced by the player, not the OS or drive. The drive can have its code changed five times, but VLC doesn't care what code it returns.

Worst case, for unencrypted disks, copy the VIDEO_TS folder to your HD and play from there. For encrypted disks, get MacTheRipper and rip the disk (removing region coding) to your HD.

Note that the way region coding works is that the player asks the disk what region it's allowed to play in, and compares that with the region the drive says it's set for, and, if the player follows the rules, it refuses to play if there's no match.