I am not terribly computer literate, my guru is but despite HOURS of effort we cannot get my new DVD burner to correctly play or burn DVD's. CD's are ok, burn and play. Win 98se and Nero showtime, Power DVD5, anyDVD installed, uninstalled, reinstalled. At best very jerky playback, at worst a freeze and shutdown of viewer. DVD's recorded on standalone dvd recorder are read as "audio" and won't play. Error codes are F4D41436 and 8004027A and the most common one is the apparent need to "disable TV Out Port" which does not exist on my graphics card. I suspect this is all about cunning copyright protection, which is fair enough but it prevents me from even playing the "jolly" things. Plenty like me on google, very few solutions. Can you help? 1200 processor and 256 ram which should be more than enough. "Enable DMA" did allow perfect playback briefly. Do have an additional CD drive as well. Congratulations on awesome site.

are the DVDs you're making copies of other DVDs, or are they your own video, like home recordings for instance?

Every type of process I have tried does not work on any type of dvd. Original copywrited ones, ones I have made via tv downloads, or trying to burn one from my computer files. Anything cd works fine, playback or burning, nothing dvd does. One original commercial dvd does play in a horribly distorted way (adding more ram and a different graphics card actually made it worse!) but another would not start. It does now with the different graphics card but then gives the "tv out" error.
I wonder if my graphics cards are inadequate, or there needs to be a bios setting change, Nero Showtime seems to be a frequent culprit on google,but have spent way too much time getting to this stage! Be VERY pleased if you can help!