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Need some basic information and plain facts about DVD Decoders
I bought a puzzle game at a drug store and it came with a DVD. I believe it
is a DVD and not a CD but how do you tell? Thats the first question-I did go to the properties of my cd/dvd multi drive and tried playing the disk with CD Recording enabled and then with CD Recording disabled. Got the same error message both times- "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer." Now I did a little searching and also installed WMP 11 but I cannot verify this because I do not know how to verify the WMP version. I did the usual, going to properties of WMP but could not see any identification there. Information received when I went to Help, etc, suggested retail companies that had DVD decoders for sale. Retail companies? Is there not supposed to be some basic dvd decoders that come with Windows or with WMP? To do any basic operations are there not free, reliable dvd decoders out there? If there is not free help I saw a recommendation on this site, a few messages down, but when I selected this URL activated phrase I did not get the correct website. Frank C. |
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Need some basic information and plain facts about DVD Decoders
Hello,
You can use VLC media player to play DVDs. Its free. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ -- Singapore Web Design http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/ Singapore Web Hosting "Frank C." wrote in message ... I bought a puzzle game at a drug store and it came with a DVD. I believe it is a DVD and not a CD but how do you tell? Thats the first question-I did go to the properties of my cd/dvd multi drive and tried playing the disk with CD Recording enabled and then with CD Recording disabled. Got the same error message both times- "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer." Now I did a little searching and also installed WMP 11 but I cannot verify this because I do not know how to verify the WMP version. I did the usual, going to properties of WMP but could not see any identification there. Information received when I went to Help, etc, suggested retail companies that had DVD decoders for sale. Retail companies? Is there not supposed to be some basic dvd decoders that come with Windows or with WMP? To do any basic operations are there not free, reliable dvd decoders out there? If there is not free help I saw a recommendation on this site, a few messages down, but when I selected this URL activated phrase I did not get the correct website. Frank C. |
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Need some basic information and plain facts about DVD Decoders
Thanks. I was not in the same group when I wrote my email but posted it to
this group, I mean I made this a new selection from the drop down box when I posted this message. There are some answers to my questions if I go back through the list and search. However the website you have given me will be used also. Thanks for responding. Frank C. "SingaporeWebDesign" wrote: Hello, You can use VLC media player to play DVDs. Its free. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ -- Singapore Web Design http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/ Singapore Web Hosting "Frank C." wrote in message ... I bought a puzzle game at a drug store and it came with a DVD. I believe it is a DVD and not a CD but how do you tell? Thats the first question-I did go to the properties of my cd/dvd multi drive and tried playing the disk with CD Recording enabled and then with CD Recording disabled. Got the same error message both times- "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer." Now I did a little searching and also installed WMP 11 but I cannot verify this because I do not know how to verify the WMP version. I did the usual, going to properties of WMP but could not see any identification there. Information received when I went to Help, etc, suggested retail companies that had DVD decoders for sale. Retail companies? Is there not supposed to be some basic dvd decoders that come with Windows or with WMP? To do any basic operations are there not free, reliable dvd decoders out there? If there is not free help I saw a recommendation on this site, a few messages down, but when I selected this URL activated phrase I did not get the correct website. Frank C. |
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