Granny, does this happen for one particular DVD or for any DVD that you try? Have you played a DVD on this system before?

Let's verify that the default DVD Decoder is installed and selected. Run the Vista Media Center Decoder utility from here:
http://mediacenterexpert.blogs.....ility.html

Granny, how did you capture and post that screen shot? I would like to know how to do that.

granny, i never knew what the snipping tool was. thanks!

Yes, indeed, thanks. I have a PhB account already. And if I only want to snip part of a page, I can crop the .jpg in Irfy.

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/c.....pture.html
Version 5.3 still Free I think????
Regards,
Rick P.

BTT: Granny, the decoders listed by the utility are correct. Here is mine:

What make and model of optical drive do you have? What kind of video card do you have?

You can find that under device manager in Control Panel, Granny.

Here's a real kick in the pants. I just tried playing my dvds on my husbands computer and they played smooth as butter. All of his stuff says Intel and all of mine says NVIDIA. What gives?

Granny,

Did your husbands PC come with some sort of dvd playing software like cyberlink power dvd? I know in XP i install that since it came with the dvd burner i got and then windows media player starts to play dvd's. I can then uninstall cyberlink and wmp still plays dvd's. I thought Vista was supposed to play DVD's out of the box...but i don't know for sure.

Thank you guys,
My husband has a little compaq presario, half the computer I have. My DVD/CD-ROM drive says TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N SCSI CdRom Device. I have manually updated everything with a drive attached including the TSST thing. I'm just trying play DVDs of some old tv shows my friends gave me for xmas. (they're store bought) Could I have a bad video card?