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Having trouble playing DVDs with MPC

My supper is currently getting cold, so I would like a quick answer if at all possible.  I have played ~12 DVDs without a hitch with Media Player Classic and the Cyberlink DVD Decoder availble with the K-Lite Codec Pack.  However the DVD I am currently trying to play, Spiderman 2, seems to work fine, menus and logos play OK, but when I try to Play the movie data itself I get RGB seperation.  How do I fix this?  If I had my DVD software here I would just install it but I don't, so please, I would be very grateful for any help I can get quickly.

-Tyler

edit:  I am going to try reporting myself to, hopefully, get the attention of the A/V mods or some other mod/admin thgat might be able to help me, sorry if this bothers anyone.

edit 2:  I see that there are no mods/admins and few users at all currently online, I guess I have fallen victim to some bad timing.  Anyway I would still like an answer to this question as I would prefer to play everything with MPC.  However for tonight I guess I'll have to take a trip across town and pick up my DVD software :/.
gentoo ~amd64 + layman | ncmpcpp/mpd | wavpack + vorbis + lame

Having trouble playing DVDs with MPC

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My supper is currently getting cold, so I would like a quick answer if at all possible.  I have played ~12 DVDs without a hitch with Media Player Classic and the Cyberlink DVD Decoder availble with the K-Lite Codec Pack.  However the DVD I am currently trying to play, Spiderman 2, seems to work fine, menus and logos play OK, but when I try to Play the movie data itself I get RGB seperation.  How do I fix this?  If I had my DVD software here I would just install it but I don't, so please, I would be very grateful for any help I can get quickly.
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First of all, codec packs are the devil.  Do not use them, it is no wonder you are having problems.  Different filters interact together to create messes like you describe.  Whenever, you need to play something back make sure you get the filters yourself and install them yourself that way you know what is on your system should something go wrong.  Don't be lazy and install a codec pack.  With that said, remove that thing. 

Anyway, just out of curiousity, why are you not using MPC's mpeg2 decoder for you movie?  It should work just as well.  If your MPC doesn't have the mpeg2 decoder get the latest MPC [a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/]here[/url] this way if you are still having problems at least we can figure out what is causing them.  With the codec pack installed, who knows what is in your directshow chain.  Which makes it impossible for me to help you unless if I can see what is going on in graphedit (even then it might be a challenge).

Having trouble playing DVDs with MPC

Reply #2 –
not a solution, but when everything goes wrong and i dont feel like fixing it at that moment, i usually use some non-windows specific player like mplayer port for win32.

binaries can be found @
http://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/ or
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

(i just use it from command line)

edit: also works fine as 'second opinion'.
PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8
NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

Having trouble playing DVDs with MPC

Reply #3 –
Ok, thanks a lot for your help guys.  I'll see if I can't get things working properly again.
gentoo ~amd64 + layman | ncmpcpp/mpd | wavpack + vorbis + lame