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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6822 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 31 17 January 2006 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah ok. My experiences are also rather old (version 7 or so). Since then I have been using Ghost images (so not much installing anymore :)
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6891 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 10 of 31 18 January 2006 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
That's not strictly true. Windows Media Player will not play DVDs without an appropriate MPEG2 DirectX filter - i.e. an MPEG2 decoder. Such decoders incurr licensing costs which Microsoft don't pay. WMP therefore relies on a 3rd party decoder being installed. A link on the Microsoft site here shows available commercial plugins but also has an download link to a utility allowing you to check the availability & compatibility of your existing MPEG2 decoder. The reason most machines now play DVDs out the box with WMP is that there is usually an already-licensed decoder bundled with and installed on the machine. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 6892 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 11 of 31 18 January 2006 at 11:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, I guess I've always had some third party codec that took care of that. Anyway, if anyone out there needs support for DVDs, look at the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. It's especially nice because with it I can play Real/QuickTime files without using their annoying program to do it.
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6891 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 12 of 31 19 January 2006 at 2:33am | IP Logged | ||
A thousand thanks for that little link. Hopefully I can finally get rid of RealPlayer - I find it really annoying that much (but not all) of the BBC's language content is in RP files. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6822 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 31 19 January 2006 at 2:46am | IP Logged | ||
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There is an alternative for the Real player Andy.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm Tuffy Edited by tuffy on 19 January 2006 at 2:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6891 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 14 of 31 19 January 2006 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, but what I'm hoping is that with the codec pack, I can play RP files in WMP. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Linas Octoglot Senior Member Lithuania Joined 6700 days ago 253 posts - 279 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Lithuanian*, Russian, Latvian, French, English, German, Spanish, Polish Studies: Slovenian, Greek, Hungarian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese | Message 15 of 31 19 January 2006 at 6:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to ask still another question about the DVD. I have read that every DVD are made for a specific region and that they can play only on players made in the same region(what for idiot has invented such nonsense?). I would ask whether sombody had problems because of that. Secondly, since Chinese films are certainly made for a different region than Europe, so that it should be impossible to view Chinese DVD in Europe, if the above-mentioned is true. Edited by Linas on 19 January 2006 at 6:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6891 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 16 of 31 19 January 2006 at 9:43am | IP Logged | ||
There are huge numbers of DVD players available in the UK that are "hackable" in some form or other. There are either secret menus or remote key press combinations that enable region-free or they can be purchased "chipped" to get round the problem. Personally, I don't know anyone who owns a DVD player that cannot be made region-free. Most of us bought them to take advantage of movie releases to DVD being faster in the US. I've also, in the past, "flashed" the PROM on some of my computer DVD drives to remove the region checks as well. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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