Codecs - for playing rental DVD's

[TheNiceGuy]

I have WMP and VLC Player. But I am having trouble watching downloaded film, even watching rented DVDs. For example, last nights DVD with WMP has no video, and VLC crashed if I tried to use subtitles. Don't know if it matters, but I live in Japan and use English sound and Japanese subs wheneve possible. I have an "all in 1" codec pack, but am reluctant to unleash it on my PC as I heard there can be issues with these.

Any ideas?

 

[imported_humey]

NONE, you need buy a software dvd player like power or win dvd to pay for license, then you can use that app or WMP once you have that app installed, you can also got to WMP homepage and buy a plugin thats made by the various manu's of the software players, or go to Nvidia and download 30 day trial of their dvd decoder then you can pay for it after you test.

 

[Auric]

Try Media Player Classic. No additional codecs are needed for DVD. But with additional codecs like some MPEG-4 variant, Real Alternative, QuickTime Alternative, etc., it can play everything.

 

[fstime]

You need a software codec.

I like powerdvd.

It costs money though, it has a trial, id test it out.

 

[TheNiceGuy]

Auric- that player rocks! Cheers man!

 

[MegaWorks]

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.25