I have Windows 98...
I am trying to play some videos from a CDR my friend gave me, the video will only play 3 seconds. Then my computer freezes up, but the CD Rom still spins the CDR around inside. Windows Media Player stops resonding and usually my computer freezes.  It continues spinning the CDR around, even if I close all programs. If I open the CDRom my computer gives me the blue screen that it can't recognize the CDR and crashes.  The CDR works fine on her computer but not mine...toby eder.....Do you have the proper drivers for the cd rom or is it a dvd player ?
Are you able to play a audio cd in the player ...without things CRASHING ? What format is the media that you are to play ?

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dl65  The CD Rom will play other CDS and CDRs I have with no problem...
Windows says I have the right drivers... The video is in .avi format.what version of windows media player are you using?have you tried windows movie maker...do you get the same results...i'm using Windows Media Player 9... My friend just told me that the CDRs are actually CDRW, could that be the reason why they are not playing? I don't have a burner like she does.  I don't have Windows Movie Maker, would that make a difference?toby eder.....it shouldn't matter if the disk is a cd + or - r or rw you should be able to read it .......If it was in dvd format you could not read it......Could you TRY it on another pc ( not your friends ) just to confirm that it can be playd ok .....it may have corupt files on it .
If you have Media Player 9 ...that should work just fine and I do not believe you need Movie maker.

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dl65Yes, it does make a difference. CDRW's can be very problematic when played on a different drive. CDR will normally work but CDRW will normally not work well if it works at all.2k dummy.......Interesting COMMENT ......I use cdrw often and use them to move info from one pc to the other and I have never had any PROBLEMS doing so ......but I suppose anything is possible ..

dl65  We have to 'finalize' any time we burn a CD or it likely won't work on a 98 machine.  Figured this out when we sent out 150 CDs to clients and about 10 didn't work.