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Old September 24, 2007, 03:53 PM
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Ive got a problem with my pioneer dvdr-212. I cant get any dvd players to work with it.

The drive didnt come with any software and ive tried installing the latest firmware.exe Pioneer DVR-212D Firmware v 1.21 - TechSpot Drivers
for the drive in XP but it doesnt seem to help.

Anyideas?
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Old September 24, 2007, 03:59 PM
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Ive got a problem with my pioneer dvdr-212. I cant get any dvd players to work with it.

The drive didnt come with any software and ive tried installing the latest firmware.exe Pioneer DVR-212D Firmware v 1.21 - TechSpot Drivers
for the drive in XP but it doesnt seem to help.

Anyideas?
Why on earth are you updating the firmware? That doesn't really do a whole lot and shouldn't be unless you need a reason.

Did the drive simply not allow reading of dvd-r from the box? If so its probably defective.
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Old September 24, 2007, 04:46 PM
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Mine died and did the same. After some time it would not read any dvds... Hell after more time, it would not even show up in windows... I switched it for an LG DUal layer burner with Lightscribe DVD burner and all is good.
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well when i try to use realplayer or windows media player and another freeware dvd player they say that i need to load the DVD software that came with the drive? Any idea what software that might be?

It reads cd/dvd games fine and recogonises a dvd movie as a dvd movie, just wotn play it.
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Old September 24, 2007, 05:11 PM
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any idea where to get a free dvd decoder? I think thats what i need.
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Old September 24, 2007, 05:17 PM
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well when i try to use realplayer or windows media player and another freeware dvd player they say that i need to load the DVD software that came with the drive? Any idea what software that might be?

It reads cd/dvd games fine and recogonises a dvd movie as a dvd movie, just wotn play it.
Grab VLC and see if it'll play. Some players can't or won't play a dvd due to codecs.
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Old September 24, 2007, 05:25 PM
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ta very much marrow...that got it running
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Well, it looks like you got it working ... Just throwing it out there if anyone else reads this in the future and has a similar problem, but this can also occur if you don't choose a region code ...
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