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    What - Software DVD Player

    Can somebody please recommend a free/reasonably priced software DVD player that it good quality and straightforward to use please

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    most paid software dvd players suck - with poorly made, skinned interfaces that hide the very basics. however, what a paid dvd player gives you is a patent-licensed mpeg2 decoder. installing *any* legit software player should enable simple software like Media Player Classic to do dvd playback.

    or there's always the illegal, free, patent-infringement option, VLC - which also accidentally ignores DVD regions too.

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    I see, thats understood, I think I understand, Would the proram you mentioned give playback of poorer qualitiy than a bought DVD player, i.e stuttering frame rates or artifacts?

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    VLC is awesome, plays almost any file and does it well, give it a whirl. http://www.videolan.org/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Syd
    I see, thats understood, I think I understand, Would the proram you mentioned give playback of poorer qualitiy than a bought DVD player, i.e stuttering frame rates or artifacts?
    no. it's just in violation of the MPEG2 patents

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    i used to use vlc player and it is highly recommended but i now use media player classic (nothing to do with windows) and it plays everyformat you could ever need perfectly!


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    Quote Originally Posted by leeglf
    i used to use vlc player and it is highly recommended but i now use media player classic (nothing to do with windows) and it plays everyformat you could ever need perfectly!
    I second this. MPC is spot on. It also ignores regions on DVDs now, so providing your drive is also region free, you're sorted.

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    www.free-codecs.com is good resource for stuff like this

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    VLC is very good, and Media Player Classic via the k-lite codec pack for me: http://www.codecguide.com.

    I've just tried the new Powerdvd 7 and it froze my system every time I went near a divx/xvid file, and it seems to want various programmes to run in the background all the lime like richvideo.exe, which I don't like. Powerdvd 6 on the other hand is very good.

    Windvd 7 looks good though. It has upnp built in now, and since I run a upnp media server I might go with that.

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    Another vote for media player classic via the klite codec packs

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    the klite codec packs contain an awful lot of unlicensed software (e.g. pirated mpeg2 codecs)

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    the klite codec packs contain an awful lot of unlicensed software (e.g. pirated mpeg2 codecs)
    Wow I didn't know that m8. They don't seem to mention this anywhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hanybanoub
    Wow I didn't know that m8. They don't seem to mention this anywhere.
    mpeg2 codec licensing is $2.50 per decoder license. k-lite contains three different mpeg2 codecs - mainconcept, ligos & gabest - all ripped from their parent products (i.e. pirated) or produced without any valid patent license (patent violation). as well as other ripped bits & bobs like intervideo and cyberlink dvd demuxers; paid (pro) versions of codecs like divx, etc

    it's an extremely useful package, but it's concentrated intellectual property sin

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    I'm surprised it's still running then m8, perhaps not for much longer. Thanks for the info.

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