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Old April 19th, 2004, 08:31 PM
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Default OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!

See Topic, i was wondering what i have to do in order to view DVDs (B5 comes to mind) with Windows Media player 9. I dont have any other Playback programm. what do i have to do, if its about codecs then where can i get the needed ones ?!

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Old April 19th, 2004, 09:40 PM
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Default Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!

I am not sure it is even capable of playing DVDs at all...
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Old April 19th, 2004, 10:36 PM
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Default Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!

Win media player 8 plays back DVDs, but it sucks- the controls are, well, practically non-existant. You can't rewind/ ffwd except to the previous/ lnext chapter.

Personally I use windvd from intervideo (came with the laptop.) If you don't have that, look on the web for some freeware media player, you can bet there will be a few decent ones about.
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Default Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!

I did a search one time looking for something to let me "grap" frames from my DVD player (found it!) and noticed a lot of freeware/shareware players, I think. Unless you just want everything in one program, there's a suggestion.
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Default Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!

I'm waiting for winamp to be able to play DVDs.
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Default Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!

The only free media player that I know of that plays DVDs is VLC. Go to:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It will also allow you to multi-steam the DVD over a network (Way cool)
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