(free) DVD player for winXP needed

[Testin da Cable]

can someone advise please? normally I'd rather not use windows, but as I've been given a new lappy and happen to have the ultra extended edition of the two towers on my desk I'm feeling frisky

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
can someone advise please? normally I'd rather not use windows, but as I've been given a new lappy and happen to have the ultra extended edition of the two towers on my desk I'm feeling frisky

All the free ones for XP I know are full of Spyware. Ask someone more nerdy

 

[7th]

Mmmmm one of the versions of media player let me play DVD's, im not sure which as it was on my previous install and i re-installed a week or two ago.... as always, in true microsoft manner, i couldn't get media player to accept my dvds as it was before

so um, other than that... i cant think of any free dvd players

7th

 

[Testin da Cable]

bah

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
bah

oooh, an ent in meh pantz !

 

[Testin da Cable]

my coworkers call me Gimli for some reason. perhaps because I'm always fingering my large axe and looking sidelong at people

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
my coworkers call me Gimli for some reason. perhaps because I'm always fingering my large axe and looking sidelong at people

It's Ductch for Gimp0r right ?

 

[Testin da Cable]

no, but I did tell a temp girl that Scots wear kilts because their genitals are massive and can't be restrained by Y-fronts.

 

[bids]

I use Xine to play DVD's on my Linux machine - although it don't have all the fancy functions that WinDVD has, it plays 'em with no problem - there are a couple of other GNU Linux players too. Worth a try ?

 

[Testin da Cable]

hmm I wonder if I can install it into cygwin....must check

 

[bunn]

Only one I can think of is PowerDVD which comes with most DVD drives. Mine's the old version but works fine on XP. Maybe you can pick up a cheap copy somewhere.

 

[bids]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
hmm I wonder if I can install it into cygwin....must check

I tried Cygwin, and de-installed after an hour, as it wouldn't run any multi-media type application, or any network applications. It's detection of hardware in the version I tried was crap - what about a minimal install of SUSE/Mandrake/Red Hat, and then running Xine on that ?

 

[S-Gray]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
no, but I did tell a temp girl that Scots wear kilts because their genitals are massive and can't be restrained by Y-fronts.

and lucky for us all thats actually a myth ,

unless of course... you're talkin about female scots... in which case tell me more

 

[Trem]

Teedles PM.

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
no, but I did tell a temp girl that Scots wear kilts because their genitals are massive and can't be restrained by Y-fronts.

True.

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by bids
I tried Cygwin, and de-installed after an hour, as it wouldn't run any multi-media type application, or any network applications. It's detection of hardware in the version I tried was crap - what about a minimal install of SUSE/Mandrake/Red Hat, and then running Xine on that ?

the lappy is "speshul" and can't be reinstalled


as is, the problem may be sorted

 

[Trem]

Well Leggy is a Scot and hes hung like a god.


















No not Venus either!










I now know why certain people think I'm a girl

 

[MYstIC G]

Afaik Windows Media Player can play DVD's if you get the right codec on your box, also I seem to remember RealOne does them which can work "ok-ish" if you can disable everything in it that's gay.

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by MYstIC G
disable everything in it that's gay.

you mean "never install this software" right?

 

[dysfunction]

Have you tried WinDVD? Or PowerDVD?

 

[Insane]

what about that old Nvidia DVD player? might work if the laptops got an Nvidia on-board card like most high-end spinky laptops bought by large companies
*eyes Toshiba 6100 beside him*

or VLC Media Player? (linky )

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye, I was looking at VLC, and it seems to really rock. perhaps for at home

 

[old.tRoG]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
no, but I did tell a temp girl that Scots wear kilts because their genitals are massive and can't be restrained by Y-fronts.

I try to be modest.

 

[Testin da Cable]

you were the temp girl?

 

[Trem]

Sorted yet Andeh?

 

[caLLous]

Teedy, try Media Player Classic here... I used that after a clean install of Windows before I put any other media player type things on there, and it was fine with DVDs. (And it's free)

 

[Testin da Cable]

it's all been sorted! thanks to everyone who helped our!

 

[Big G]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
aye, I was looking at VLC, and it seems to really rock. perhaps for at home

I use VLC and it beats the pants of every other software DVD player. All other DVD software stutters sound on my PC, except for VLC. Additionally, it's fairly resource light weighing in at ~7Mb.

G