Anyone have Rush Hour 3 or Shoot Em Up?

[veedubfreak]

I recently bought both of these movies and they wont play on the media pc nor the gaming pc. Trying to figure out whats going on. I know its not the disc because i returned rush hour 3 for a different copy and get the exact same problem. Just wondering if anyone else has run into this issue. I think i'm going to have to buy anyDVD sooner than i was planning to.

[Typhoon]

Whats the error, you didn't say.
Is it a black screen and audio or what?
If you've been playing it through WMP, try playing it through quicktime as WMP doesn't have Avexc or whatever sometimes.

[veedubfreak]

No error persay. I just get a blank black screen and nothing plays. No audio, no video, no menus even.

Edit, this happens in both vista home premium (media pc) and xp (gaming pc). I tried VLC, doesnt play in that either.

[krazyq]

do you have any kind of codecs installed?
i dont have any and dont have any issues.
I use vlc for movies and it works fine.
try it in your dvd player and see what happens?
it could be your optical drive too

[veedubfreak]

My first thought was the drive itself, but i tried it on my gaming rig with the same results. Up until these 2 movies, everything else has played perfectly fine in media pc, and still do. Its only these 2 titles that dont want to work. I dont get it.

And my standalone player died, which is part of what prompted the media pc.

[atomic tofu]

some dvds don't play...or are highly incompatible if they were made with a certain device, I forget what...gonna see if I can find what I am talking about

but have you tried vista codec pack and mpc?

edit: seems this is one of those over protected dvds....tends to be funky
either that or they are not coded in the best fashion

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Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)
Size of first Layer: 1936336 sectors (3781 MBytes)
Total size: 3642849 sectors (7114 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: RUSH_HOUR_3
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1!

Warning: .bup file location is wrong, .bup processing disabled!
RCE protection not found.
Found & removed structural copy protection!
Found & removed invalid cell pieces!
Repaired invalid title search pointer table!
Found & removed bogus title set(s)!
Found & removed invalid VOBUs!
UDF filesystem patched!
Found & removed Autorun from Video DV
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EDIT 2:
Veedub...if you want...you can rip it using dvdfab hd....rip it so you can play it on your media pcs
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[veedubfreak]

Not yet, i'm usually too lazy to bother looking for stuff like that until i run into a situation that forces me to. So at this point i need to find the codec pack, but didnt know which one to look for.

[atomic tofu]

Vista Codec Package Homepage

[UA_Iron]

The order in whcih I would approach this situation is:
1. download k-lite codec pack - its free and should help with the situation
2. AnyDVD, then DVD decrypter then DVD shrink - I successfully ripped and burned this DVD. This particular DVD has some heavy copywrite protection on it, but AnyDVD took care of it.

DVD decrypter + dvd shrink is the only 99.9% way to burn DVD's in my opinion. I've tried a lot of programs and these are the best two to use - along with AnyDVD when DVD decrypter cant decrypt the movie (its newer and up to date with copywrite protection schemes).

[veedubfreak]

I'm not even trying to burn it. I bought the dvd and i just want to watch it. This is what really hacks me off about all of this stupid "copy protection". I cant even watch a dvd that i own without jumping through hoops. I think i may just end up going with DVDfab as it is an all in one program rather than have to deal with the 3 step process of anyDVD, dvd decrypter and dvd shrink. But i'll grab the codec pack when i get home and see if i can watch it or not.