Okay, I'm going to be ignorant here....

Most DVDs play really well on my computer.

However, a rented copy of firefly had the colors all wonkified, definately not reading the dvd right in the software.

I was using PowerDVD and also tried Windows Media player.

I downloaded the trial of WINDVD and that could play it *perfectly* however, it's a trial, and I'm too cheap to buy the software. And i'm curious.

Is there anyway to get PowerDVD or WMA to use the same decoding for color that WINDVD used?

10/5/2005 12:59:25 PM

perhaps it was the disc

10/5/2005 1:18:28 PM

Windows media player does not come with its own dvd decoder.

it relies on 3rd party decoders for watching dvds. most likely it is currently using powerdvd.

I would suggest playing with the decoder settings in powerdvd and also making sure you have no wierd optiions configured in the hardware video overlay settings on your graphics card.

10/5/2005 1:20:55 PM