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April 19th, 2004, 08:31 PM
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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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April 19th, 2004, 09:40 PM
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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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April 19th, 2004, 10:36 PM
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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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April 20th, 2004, 12:39 AM
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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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April 20th, 2004, 07:43 PM
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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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April 20th, 2004, 11:17 PM
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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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April 21st, 2004, 04:29 AM
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Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!
Bwahaha!
Control panel, add/remove software, REMOVE WMP9!
If that is still possible? Probably not...
Go to www.free-codecs.com or the mirror www.codecsdownload.com and check out the free goodies. More players and codecs than you can figure out how to use in a lifetime. Several of the free players can play DVDs.
Especially checkout the 'Real Alternative' and 'Quicktime Alternative' codec packs. You can listen to 'RealMedia' or watch Quicktime movies WITHOUT the respective branded player browbeating you to buy the registered Version!
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April 21st, 2004, 05:35 AM
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Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!
What's a codec?
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April 21st, 2004, 07:45 AM
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Re: OT: What do i need to make Win Media Player playback DVD ?!
A codec is the software needed to read and decompress a specific format for video and/or audio.
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