How do I get a DVD (movie) to Play?

[workingjoe]

Just built my first box. All in all it took me about 8 hours, I spent like an hour and half trying to figure out why the damn floppy wouldn't read the disk once the box posted...But a quick trip to Frys to get a new floppy and I was in business. It was very cool to see this box come to life. I will NEVER EVER buy a prebuilt box again.

Anyhow here is my hardware:

Tbird 900
Abit KT7A
46GB IBM HD
Asus 7100 MX card
Toshiba SDM1502 DVD Drive
3COM NIC
SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer

Here's the question:

The system recognizes the Toshiba as a DVD and runs fine to install software etc. I didn't think it was necesary to have a MPEG2 Hardware Decoder(I thought it could be emulated). I know when I bought a dell for my wife, the DVD came with software emulation.

Any comments?

Thank!

 

[Johnnie]

try using Win DVD

 

[SinMen]

Put a DVD in the drive first. Then I would also try WinDVD.

 

[gcy]

try Cyberlink PowerDVD

 

[imhotepmp]

another vote here for powerdvd

if you need a copy, pm me


imhotepMP

 

[grendelkhan]

Either the DVD-ROM or the 7100 should have come with some kind of DVD software, double check all your CD's and see if you can find it. My AOpen Geforce card came with WinDVD, and while it's passable, I've seen much better.

 

[TRD]

Hi there...

believe it or not you already have a copy of WinDVD.... its on your ABIT Utilities DVD, just install it and it acts as a software decoder to allow you to play your DVDs

 

[misle]

On my KT7A utilities Disc, it just has a trial version of WinDVD that will only play 5 minutes at a time... Am I missing something...

Matt