Technical Help Please

7 Apr 2004

Recently I hired on of the new write protected DVDs. These mainly 'copper coloured' DVDs have apparently coding built into them which prevents copying. This DVD would not play. sad

Other DVD's of my own, which I have played on many occasions, also refused to play thereafter. :cry: My DVD is a read only, not reader/writer.
I have three media players installed on my computer, i.e Windows Media Player, Interactual Player and a newly installed Intervideo WinDVD.4. The first two refused to work at all. When I tried to play a DVD with the latter programme I got an Error message saying wnaspi file not found.
Does anyone know where I can obtain the said file. I am using Windows XP Pro. The DVD player is a Liteon DVD 16x ROM Drive with atapi.e-ide interface. The DVD drive will place music CD's without any problem, so it must be a software problem on the DVD side.
Thanks for any assistance you may be able to offer. 8)
Harry0

7 Apr 2004

try and get a copy of PowerDVD find it plays everything on dvd format

7 Apr 2004

Quote by mr&mrsdisco1
try and get a copy of PowerDVD find it plays everything on dvd format

Thanks MrMrsdisco,
But I was using Power DVD when it happened. I deleted and reinstalled it, but it still wouldn't work, so deleted it again. Many thanks for the suggestion though. I think the fault may lie in the Windows XP Pro system32 files. I have tried restarting the system to a date when I know it was working correctly but that didn't help either. Thank you anyway.
Harry0

7 Apr 2004

Hi Harry,
No luck on this I am afraid, I can find loads of copies, and some good advice but would need to be playing locally to be sure I giving you the right guidence. You may want to try here:
I found the online help fairly useless, but you can submit an email query. You may want to uninstall Intervideo WinDVD as it was sometime after this it all stopped...

7 Apr 2004

Quote by tallnhairy
Hi Harry,
No luck on this I am afraid, I can find loads of copies, and some good advice but would need to be playing locally to be sure I giving you the right guidence. You may want to try here:
I found the online help fairly useless, but you can submit an email query. You may want to uninstall Intervideo WinDVD as it was sometime after this it all stopped...

Thanks for the advice Tallnhairy, I will look at that web site asap. The WinDVD was only installed today on the advice of my local computer shop, it was that programme that gave me the clue to where the fault was. I have E-mailed Microsoft, but am still waiting and waiting for a reply.
Harry0

8 Apr 2004

You need to install an ASPI driver which you can get from
or sometimes you can get away with placing a copy of in the installation folder of the program. You can get from

9 Apr 2004

Hi Sussexguy,
Thanks for the tips. I have already tried several suggestions made by other roomies or via PMs. I have already re-installed XP Pro, deleted and re-installed many programmes all in vain so far. I downloaded PC Doctor on call and had it run a scan on my computer. It detected 107 errors, many duplicated, and some for programmes I no longer have. but it did list some files that appear to be missing and I'm looking into it.
Thanks to all that have tried to assist me, it's great to know there are so many nice people out there.
Harry0

9 Apr 2004

10 Apr 2004

Quote by jomu

Thanks for that site address Jomu. I downloaded the PC Doctor on call (free download) and ran it. It detected 288 faults in my system. The Bug Repair Programme I purchased. It fixed all but 15 of the problems which are minor and not damaging to the health of my PC.
My DVD player is now working lol

I can recommend the free download PC Doctor on Call. It will tell you what and where the faults on PC's are. Buying the Bug repair programme was as cheap as taking the PC to the local Computer Shop who have a standard charge of Â£20 just to look at it, never mind try and repair it.
Harry0