Page 1 of Can`t play my DVDs! Need help configuring windows to deal with macrovision

Whenever I try to play any DVD on my computer the picture is scrambled and has MACROVISION in big letters on the screen. Windows tells me that my computer is not configured to deal with the Macrovision signal from the discs and needs to be reconfigured to do this - but does not say how of course. Some help? My system is a P3 400mhz with onboard graphic chipset.

A quick check reveals that some video card drivers check to see if your TV out can support a macrovision scrambled signal and if not then they refuse to display the film.
Possibly going back to an earlier version of the drivers for your video chipset may help.
Mind you I don`t see why it would think that your older PC should be capable of outputting to TV since I assume that being onboard the graphics system lacks a TV out unless its mis configured as a similar card such as an ATI128 allinwonder card since a lot of those onboard sets would be ATI

It`s just a bog standard intel graphics chip set with no TV outs. Its configured as is, the same way the PC came from the shop, but there must be some setting wrong.

yeah but the software displaying the macrovision warning does suggest it thinks you can output to a tv/vhs without macrovision I suspect as its not part of the information required to display the picture on your monitor just some irrelevant info put out on a wire that video recorders use even though TVs don`t and results in random fluctuations in the picture recorded making it unwatchable.
Go into the system properties/device manager and check if it thinks its supporting any devices that could confuse the dvdplayer.

This item was edited on Thursday, 25th September 2003, 22:43