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April 16th, 2004
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Good free DVD player
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April 16th, 2004
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OSNN Proxy
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Originally Posted by one.123
Windows media player plays dvd files. it's free. |
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April 16th, 2004
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Tech Junkie
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VideoLAN Client (aka VLC)
http://www.videolan.org/vlc Here's a list of all the other formats it supports: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html |
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April 16th, 2004
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I Use MS Paint
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WMP requires 3rd party MPEG-2 decoders (WinDVD, PowerDVD, or nvDVD are all good choices but not free) but I am not sure about VLC.
Anyway "Good DVD" and "Free" should never really be used in the same sentence as MPEG-2 (what DVD uses) is a patented technology and there is heavy royalties involved in licensing it. Any free DVD software is illegal and probably buggy if it works at all. Odds are it wont be able to play encrypted DVD at all as well. |
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April 16th, 2004
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The Last High
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Yeah, you can buy only the filters from a few places.
I seem to remember sonic, intervideo and cyberlink doing this but dn't know if they still do. Then you can use them with Zoom Player 
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April 16th, 2004
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I may actually be insane.
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VideoLAN
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April 16th, 2004
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I am fairly sure that autopatcher xp patches media player so it can play dvds
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April 16th, 2004
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OSNN Proxy
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I got intervideo win dvd and producer for free. It came free on my oem disk for my dvd burner.
Only works on my burner, tried it on others don't work. lot of free ones here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...ree+dvd+player |
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April 16th, 2004
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Originally Posted by generalleoff
VLC doesn't need any 3rd party decoders. It uses libdvdcss, libdvdplay and other libraries.
Works flawlessly for all the DVDs that I've tried. 
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April 16th, 2004
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I play my DVDs on Windows Media Player.
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April 16th, 2004
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I may actually be insane.
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Originally Posted by NetRyder
Not to mention that it's multi-region without any extra hacks or apps (you have no idea how much of a blessing that is on OSX.. we don't have DVD Genie
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April 16th, 2004
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Tech Junkie
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Originally Posted by SPeedY_B
Good point.
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April 17th, 2004
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hmmm i may well have to check out video lan it sound good
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April 17th, 2004
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Originally Posted by indyjones
It's great. Just get a nice skin for it, and you're set.
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April 17th, 2004
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thanks for all the repliees in going to try video lan
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April 17th, 2004
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Originally Posted by NetRyder
Right will ownload it I will have to see how the multispeaker support is in dvds as I have 6.1
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April 18th, 2004
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Originally Posted by NetRyder
I tried this and it won't open. So I went and tried WinDVD and it told me that the DVD was a different country code than the one it is set up for. That I only have 2 more switches left. This is from Creepshow that I purchased at WalMart. |
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April 18th, 2004
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I may actually be insane.
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Give DVD Genie a try : http://www.inmatrix.com/files/dvdgenie_download.shtml
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April 18th, 2004
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Tomorrow Tweaking Today
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Fusionsoft DVDplayer + decoder freeware:
http://decentdownloads.x-istence.com...DVD5_Setup.exe |
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