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06 November 2005

AskMecha: DVD playback on my puter. What's your favorite free software for playing DVDs on your XP computer?→[More:]Or should I just buy a decoder that works with Windows Media, which tells me "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a problem occurred with digital copyright protection"?

post by: goatdog at: 19:53 | 6 comments

RealAlternative plays DVDs just fine, and lots of other files, including of course RealMedia.

Google for it, install it, open the player, then go to File -> open DVD.

posted by loquacious 06 November | 20:12

I find VLC will play most stuff that Media Player refuses too.

posted by flopsy 06 November | 20:17

* to

posted by flopsy 06 November | 20:18

I really wish everyone would just use a small/limited set of nice and friendly mpeg codecs. I seem to have the least amount of trouble with those, and practically every player in the world plays them.

But what can you do?

posted by loquacious 06 November | 20:22

I've found that my VLC stutters when playing DVDs, but will play HD Xvids just fun. Not sure what that's about.

I sadly use the pay software, WinDVD, that came with my video card.

posted by selfnoise 06 November | 21:32

Me too, selfnoise - I am too lazy to look for anything else when what I get with the card seems to work perfectly well.

posted by dg 06 November | 21:39

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