Apparently has something against PowerDVD 8 movies in Matroska containers (mkv - files) on your hard disk, for both drag and drop, and manually adding the playlist to be completely ignored.
Against this "protection" simply helps a simple renaming of the file in eg "Movie.avi" and Power DVD is in the version I used (8.0.2217) no more problems.
Probably be apparent to a legal problem, which forced the developers to incorporate the protection.
Thanks for the tip!
Funzt actually - as a bullshit :) Was it just the mkv container to convert ...
Me too ;)
With me is the net
Even in the most recent version, it still works, so the error must have a different reason.
I'm going for a missing codec.
The installation of the K-Lite codec pack should solve the problem.
I've also tried it today times. On a machine where it goes but apparently no hardware acceleration is used (ATI 1950XTX). As well as other codecs are installed so that it may well be that this uses the CoreAVC PowerDVD.
On the second PC (Vista 32-bit) with 780G chipset, which only XviD 1.2.1 and PowerDVD Deluxe 8 is on it (including the 2217er update) I get an error message (80040265). The files are not on the local disk (no space - is only a test installation) but on a plate attached via eSATA. The error tends toward UNC paths when searching Google for it.
I may try again because only if it would work via USB.