[Thulani]

Originally Posted by Cat Daddy

The bad discs work fine on my computer at work that has Intervideo windvd ver 5 on it. My power dvd Ver 4 just wont play them. Wondering now if I'm missing a certain codec now that was there before the VLC disaster. Then again these may be just bad discs or the vhs transfer as daddyrayoll suggested.
I think the codecs are missing that played them before I ran into trouble with VLC. May download the updated codecs pack from power dvd/Cyberlink.
Time for a shot of Jack and a cold one.

I don't think it's a codec problem. Power DVD wouldn't have played any DVD if that would've been the problem. Although I met weird met bootlegs DVDs. Once a DVD had an AC3 audio, but at the middle of the show, for less than 10 seconds, had mp2 audio.