Problems with R2 Notting Hill
David Jenkins
have a Pioneer 114 drive and a Sigma Hollywood + card. When I load the
DVD station software and insert the disc after a short time I get the
message
MMSYSTEM275 Cannot find the specified file.
The readme with the software suggests that this is due to the movie
being encrypted. I have tried several of the fixes on their website but
none seem to work.
If I use Cinemaster then the film will play albeit in jerkovision.
I am really starting to get fed up now and my girlfriend is on my back
to watch the film. Does anybody know of anyway to sort this problem
out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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David Jenkins
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Richard Hopkins
David Jenkins wrote in message...
> I am having a major problem with the above title on a DVD-ROM system.
> I have a Pioneer 114 drive and a Sigma Hollywood + card. When I load
> the DVD station software and insert the disc after a short time I get the
> message
> MMSYSTEM275 Cannot find the specified file.
Odd. That implies a problem with Windows' own multimedia settings. If you
get this with one disc, the odds are you should be seeing it with others. I
take it this isn't the first one you've bought or something?
> The readme with the software suggests that this is due to the movie
> being encrypted.
This is most unlikely to be the reason. Virtually all DVD-Video discs are
encrypted, so if this is causing the problem you have with Notting Hill, you
should also get it on any other disc you try and play.
> I have tried several of the fixes on their website but
> none seem to work.
> If I use Cinemaster then the film will play albeit in jerkovision.
I'm currently using Cinemaster '99 with a Matrox G400 Max and the disc plays
fine. There's nothing on it that is likely to cause problems with a properly
installed and configured system, so by far the likeliest cause is something
amiss in your setup.
I take it that the Cinemaster you have tried is using a software decoding
engine and not the H+ for decompression? If so (and your CPU and primary
graphics card are a little slow) that probably explains the frame drops
you're seeing.
> I am really starting to get fed up now and my girlfriend is on my back
> to watch the film. Does anybody know of anyway to sort this
> problem out.
Not without knowing more about the nature of the problem. Do your other
discs play fine? Have any of your other discs got PCFriendly/DVD-ROM content
on them? Any more detailed information you can give would be illuminating.
One thing you possibly could try would be downloading the RPC-2 region set
patch for the 114 from Pioneer UK. If the region code on the drive isn't
being queried/set correctly by the playback software, you could experience
encryption related errors - indeed Pioneer's website states that the patch
was produced for exactly this reason.
The downside of this of course is that if your drive is not already
hardlocked to Region 2, it will be after you've run the patch, but if it
gets your disc to play (and your girlfriend off your back) you can work
around this later with the firmware altering applet that has recently come
to light.
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