Looking for FREE DVD playing software

[MichaelD]

Can anyone help me out? It doesn't have to be all that great...just work.

 

[NathanBWF]

Windows Media Player...?

 

[loup garou]

You could try the SOFTWARE forum.

 

[rival]

wmp doesnt do dvds, i dont think...

windvd is free, but its uber-lame, like 30 minutes of video and 5 minutes of audio for the 'free trial' version

check tucows?

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: rival
wmp doesnt do dvds, i dont think...

windvd is free, but its uber-lame, like 30 minutes of video and 5 minutes of audio for the 'free trial' version

check tucows?

i know WMP v9 does....it's not the best but it works.

 

[Viper GTS]

Not sure any such thing exists for the Windows platform.

To legally decode DVD video the producer must pay a licensing fee for each copy. You pay fees on physical DVD players in the same way.

WMP won't play DVD's unless you have codecs installed via another program.

Viper GTS

 

[FoBoT]

i thought you had to pay for the codec addon for WMP to do DVD

 

[notfred]

There is no free legal DVD player software, because, like ViperGTS said, the software manufacturer needs to purchase a license.

 

[Adul]

legally, not likely :\

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Creative's Playcenter plays DVDs great (that's what I use on the PC) - it comes with Liveware and that's a free download

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Creative's Playcenter plays DVDs great (that's what I use on the PC) - it comes with Liveware and that's a free download

You paid the licensing fee when you bought the card.

Viper GTS

 

[BennyD]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Creative's Playcenter plays DVDs great (that's what I use on the PC) - it comes with Liveware and that's a free download

You paid the licensing fee when you bought the card.

Viper GTS

but you don't need to buy the card to use the software

 

[Koing]

Kazaa

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Creative's Playcenter plays DVDs great (that's what I use on the PC) - it comes with Liveware and that's a free download

You paid the licensing fee when you bought the card.

Viper GTS

iirc you can download it with Liveware! 3.0 (I use the 3.0 update for my main comp when I formatted a month ago and it installed Playcenter). True, I guess you're "supposed" to own the card in order to download the drivers but they don't know that

 

[MichaelD]

Hmm, OK>

Thanks though. It's for a crappy old laptop...ironically, it has WMP9 on there...I just thought it didn't play DVDs b/c v7.1 doesn't. Thanks though.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: BennyD

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Creative's Playcenter plays DVDs great (that's what I use on the PC) - it comes with Liveware and that's a free download

You paid the licensing fee when you bought the card.

Viper GTS

but you don't need to buy the card to use the software

hmmm, a search found a page with this info

Creative SoftDVD requires the Creative Playcenter software (included in the package below) to work. The Microsoft DirectX Media and Media Player has been ripped from this package. Should you need these software, get them from Microsoft for free.

Note 1 : You cannot use this player in conjunction with WinDVD, as they both use the same decoders and will interfere with each other

Note 2 - for SBLive owners : You must have LiveWare 3.0 installed to take advantage of the 4 speaker audio mode. Also, this software might not work unless you have Creative hardware (graphics card or sound card) installed.

 

[BennyD]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: BennyD

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Creative's Playcenter plays DVDs great (that's what I use on the PC) - it comes with Liveware and that's a free download

You paid the licensing fee when you bought the card.

Viper GTS

but you don't need to buy the card to use the software

hmmm, a search found a page with this info

Creative SoftDVD requires the Creative Playcenter software (included in the package below) to work. The Microsoft DirectX Media and Media Player has been ripped from this package. Should you need these software, get them from Microsoft for free.

Note 1 : You cannot use this player in conjunction with WinDVD, as they both use the same decoders and will interfere with each other

Note 2 - for SBLive owners : You must have LiveWare 3.0 installed to take advantage of the 4 speaker audio mode. Also, this software might not work unless you have Creative hardware (graphics card or sound card) installed.

but i believe that you can install the dvd decoder from that package then use a different player with the creative decoder

 

[glen]

What about Nvidia's DVD software?

 

[glen]

NVDVD free trail
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=nvdvd_downloadtrial

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: glen
NVDVD free trail http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=nvdvd_downloadtrial

It's only free for 14 days....