Can somebody please recommend a free/reasonably priced software DVD player that it good quality and straightforward to use please![]()
Can somebody please recommend a free/reasonably priced software DVD player that it good quality and straightforward to use please![]()
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.
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/
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.Originally Posted by leeglf
www.free-codecs.com is good resource for stuff like this
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.
Another vote for media player classic via the klite codec packs![]()
Wow I didn't know that m8. They don't seem to mention this anywhere.Originally Posted by directhex
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, etcOriginally Posted by hanybanoub
it's an extremely useful package, but it's concentrated intellectual property sin
I'm surprised it's still running then m8, perhaps not for much longer. Thanks for the info.
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