ive recently gotten someone to send me all these paki drama serial dvd’s from pakistan… and they DONT work!! ive a pretty decent lappy (i like to think) and YET they dont run on it… like my notebook just doesn’t read them! we also have a decent enough toshiba dvd player.. it reads teh dvd’s but it doesn’t play them! like it’ll take me to the menu and that’s that!
and seriously.. there’s quite a bunch of them… so it really goes under my skin to not be able to watch any of them!
is there someway i can make them work? and does anyone know if it’ll work if i burn those on empty dvd’s of a better quality??
how old is your laptop? do they open up on your desktop or nowhere? The newer (not necessarily more expensive) DVD players tend to read re-writable DVD's and other compressed DVD formats better.. try a cheap one from Walmart .. they are all under $40
You might want to check the format of the so called "DVDs" from Pakistan. They might be VCDs or AVIs or XVIDs or some other format that your DVD player or the laptop might not be equipped to play. See if you can open the content of the DVD in Windows Explored and see if you can look at the files and their extentions.
what format is the videos on the dvd? Its possible that they might be avi files or something and you may not have the proper codecs. Can you hear any sounds even?
Yeah man those DVDs from Pakistan are fun. I once bought a DVD from Rainbow Center which was supposed to have 5 Julia Roberts Movies. Please don't laugh....it was 3 years ago. The disc said DVD and yet it ended bing a CD with clips of those movies each 5 minutes or less. But then I have bought perfectly good DVDs from there too.
..I once bought a DVD from Rainbow Center which was supposed to have 5 Julia Roberts Movies. Please don't laugh.... The disc said DVD and yet it ended bing a CD with clips of those movies each 5 minutes or less..
how old is your laptop? do they open up on your desktop or nowhere? The newer (not necessarily more expensive) DVD players tend to read re-writable DVD's and other compressed DVD formats better.. try a cheap one from Walmart .. they are all under $40
ive a vaio fs640.. ive had it for 2-3 yrs now.. it hasnt really given me any problems w/ dvd's before.. and well how do i open them when it doesnt read the dvd's? liek i put it in n nothing happens.. so even when i access it directly from the e drive.. it just isnt there! so that means i get a new dvd player..?
You might want to check the format of the so called "DVDs" from Pakistan. They might be VCDs or AVIs or XVIDs or some other format that your DVD player or the laptop might not be equipped to play. See if you can open the content of the DVD in Windows Explored and see if you can look at the files and their extentions.
ummm how do i know that?? it says dvd on the packaging... and how do i open those in explorer (since my lappy wont read them...) and im not too technical w/ the computer... i dont know how to work any extensions..
what format is the videos on the dvd? Its possible that they might be avi files or something and you may not have the proper codecs. Can you hear any sounds even?
... and i dont know what are codecs.... and no. nothing happens when i load the dvd's... the only sound i hear (which is hihgly misleading) is that funny sound of the dvd spinning n i cross my fingers n wait for fireworks to happen :P
See if any of your friend has RPC free player and try to play on that. I am sure most players in US will be fixed to Region 1 use only. DVDs not meant for Region 1 will not play on those players.
most DVDs sold in Pakistan are region free, so it shouldn't matter where the DVD player was from, they would play.
If he can't even get the DVD to show up at all I don't think there's any way DVD rippers would work. I would just give up on those DVD's if I were you.
On a related questions, why most DVD players (not DVD ROM) refuse to see the files that are copied in a multisession. For example, if I copy an AVI movie to a DVD using NERO and copy a second movie the next day using NERO, the DVD player can only see the first file that was copied. If I copy both files at the same time, then the DVD player can see them both.