General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Slash27 on June 01, 2006, 05:24:34 AM
Title: DVD player program
Post by: Slash27 on June 01, 2006, 05:24:34 AM
Anyone recomend a good program for playing DVDs? Its for an older notebook with WindowsME or 95. Not too sure.Its for my buddy's computer, he's laid up in the hospital for a while with little entertainment. Its does have a DVD rom drive but its says it has no way of decoding DVDs.
Also, there isnt any internet access in there so I willl need to buy a program.
Title: DVD player program
Post by: Easyscor on June 01, 2006, 03:46:58 PM
Googled ASUSDVD and got this site that list almost 80 software based players.
Title: DVD player program
Post by: LePaul on June 01, 2006, 06:54:30 PM
How fast is the system?
The reason I ask is if the system is really slow, no amount of software decoding will help....the movies will skip, etc
WinDVD and others can be found on Google. A search for "free dvd decoder" might yield some stuff.
However, if you have a stack of DVDs at home, pop a few into your other, DVD equipped computer...some include free players. I know the Star Wars ones do, etc etc I was able to get those to work ok.
I've had the best luck with PowerDVD, which came with my drive.
Title: DVD player program
Post by: Rolex on June 01, 2006, 07:26:02 PM
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Title: DVD player program
Post by: Easyscor on June 01, 2006, 07:51:35 PM
Good point LePaul, my P4 - 2.6 chokes on DVDs. It's probably my cheap drive.
Title: DVD player program
Post by: Sancho on June 01, 2006, 10:55:55 PM
Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/)
Title: DVD player program
Post by: Tarmac on June 01, 2006, 11:39:32 PM
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Originally posted by Easyscor Good point LePaul, my P4 - 2.6 chokes on DVDs. It's probably my cheap drive.
yeah, something's wrong there. I used to watch DVDs just fine on a p3 800 mhz.
I use the windvd that came with my drive, but I've heard good things about the VLC player and media player classic.