Sony DDU1621 - No DVD playback

[johnoverall]

Have been living in a pre-Pentium II world until recently and have just made steps into the 21st century and bought myself a new Sony DDU1621 DVD-Rom to go into the new(er) PC I've been putting together.

I installed it on the secondary IDE as a master drive and as it came without any software I didn't install any and assumed Windows would pick it up. It does, but thinks the unit is a CD-Rom. I can see files on DVDs, I can navigate around discs I even downloaded Windows Media Player 9 (for Win 98) thinking that it would be suitable for the job but, alas, nothing.

The operating system is Windows 98 SE (am hoping to upgrade in the near future), I've checked Sony support and downloaded the manual for the drive and I'm no further forward. The only driver available is for DOS Mode.

Am I missing some service pack or other that makes Windows 98 recognise DVD hardware. When I delete the unit from the Device Manager and reinstall I'm only presented with two DVD-Rom drivers when I ask to choose the device from a list and neither of these are suitable.

What am I doing wrong. Something blatantly obvious with any luck. Your assistance please ladies and gentlemen.

Kind regards,




John

 

[Bobg1]

Even if you had installed the latest XP os you would have the same problem.
You need to load some dvd decoder software first.
A lot of dvd have front end player software on them, but you still need to have a decoder loaded first.

 

[johnoverall]

Is there one you recommend?

 

[Bobg1]

DirectDVD is rated pretty well. Its a large download, can be found on downlaod.com