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DVDidle and Eject option Nacho 01-15-2007
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Posted by Nacho on January 15, 2007, 8:59 pm
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I purchased DVDidle to get around the fact that I can't play DVD's in Media
Center via a component video connection when running at resolutions higher
that 640x480 due to the wonderful macrovision copy protection. DVDidle does
work, yay! However, if I use my remote to eject the DVD and then I insert
another DVD I get an error that Media Player encountered a fatal error. Not
a big issue, I can close the Media Center portion and re-open and I'm good to
go, but has anyone else run into this issue? Any known fixes work arounds?

Posted by Nacho on January 15, 2007, 9:04 pm
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I forgot to mention I get the fata error when I select to watch or play the
new dvd I insterted into MCE and only at that point, not simply by loading it
into the dvd player.

"Nacho" wrote:

> I purchased DVDidle to get around the fact that I can't play DVD's in Media
> Center via a component video connection when running at resolutions higher
> that 640x480 due to the wonderful macrovision copy protection. DVDidle does
> work, yay! However, if I use my remote to eject the DVD and then I insert
> another DVD I get an error that Media Player encountered a fatal error. Not
> a big issue, I can close the Media Center portion and re-open and I'm good to
> go, but has anyone else run into this issue? Any known fixes work arounds?

Posted by Nacho on January 16, 2007, 12:13 am
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Ok here is some additional finds in case it helps anyone configuring DVDidle.
I found that if in MCE I stop the DVD from playing and move away to other
video on my hard drive in essence changing MCE's focus I can eject and close
the player without issue. It seems that when I eject and then install a new
dvd it has a problem so the above works as a work around. Also I began
having issues playing DVD's backed up to my hard drive. I found that
disabling any of the file caching options, dvd and non dvd file caching
eliminated that problem. Also for smoother performance use the add option in
DVDIdle and add ehshell.exe (that's mce) from the windows\ehome folder.
DVDIdle is buggy at best, but it allows me to play my DVD's, which I
purchased legally, while using component video and 1080i resolution in MCE
without worrying about the hassel of macrovision copy right protection.

"Nacho" wrote:

> I purchased DVDidle to get around the fact that I can't play DVD's in Media
> Center via a component video connection when running at resolutions higher
> that 640x480 due to the wonderful macrovision copy protection. DVDidle does
> work, yay! However, if I use my remote to eject the DVD and then I insert
> another DVD I get an error that Media Player encountered a fatal error. Not
> a big issue, I can close the Media Center portion and re-open and I'm good to
> go, but has anyone else run into this issue? Any known fixes work arounds?

Posted by Nacho on January 20, 2007, 11:29 pm
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Ok, use ANYDVD much less combersome than DVDIDLE and no bugs so far, works
smooth.

"Nacho" wrote:

> Ok here is some additional finds in case it helps anyone configuring DVDidle.
> I found that if in MCE I stop the DVD from playing and move away to other
> video on my hard drive in essence changing MCE's focus I can eject and close
> the player without issue. It seems that when I eject and then install a new
> dvd it has a problem so the above works as a work around. Also I began
> having issues playing DVD's backed up to my hard drive. I found that
> disabling any of the file caching options, dvd and non dvd file caching
> eliminated that problem. Also for smoother performance use the add option in
> DVDIdle and add ehshell.exe (that's mce) from the windows\ehome folder.
> DVDIdle is buggy at best, but it allows me to play my DVD's, which I
> purchased legally, while using component video and 1080i resolution in MCE
> without worrying about the hassel of macrovision copy right protection.
>
> "Nacho" wrote:
>
> > I purchased DVDidle to get around the fact that I can't play DVD's in Media
> > Center via a component video connection when running at resolutions higher
> > that 640x480 due to the wonderful macrovision copy protection. DVDidle does
> > work, yay! However, if I use my remote to eject the DVD and then I insert
> > another DVD I get an error that Media Player encountered a fatal error. Not
> > a big issue, I can close the Media Center portion and re-open and I'm good
to
> > go, but has anyone else run into this issue? Any known fixes work arounds?

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