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DVD decoder for XP pro?
I have a fairly new PC (Dell Inspiron 9400) running XP pro. I recently
bought a DVD for my grandkids entitled Noodlebug. I was planning on playing it on my laptop. I put the DVD in the drive and was surprised that it did not start right up. I opened up My Computer and right-clicked on the DVD icon (drive D and selected the play option . I got a message saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on my computer". When I click on the Help button I am taken to this Microsoft web page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...userlocale=409 There, I am told that I may need to purchase a compatible DVD decoder (or MPEG-2 decoder) and offered a link to a place where I can buy one: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...spx#DVDDecoder There I am offered a number of choices. One of then is Roxio. I have been using a copy of Roxio that came with the Dell machine to burn DVDs and CDs. I started it up and it recognized the DVD, but when I click on the Video button, the only option I get is Upgrade. So, it looks like XP Pro does not come with software that can play this DVD. If I look at the contents of teh DVD, I see a bunch of files with filetypes of .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB, 76 in all. It's annoying that XP Pro doesn't have even a a simple player installed. So if I am going to have to buy more software, I would prefer not to give it to Bill G. Can anyone recommend anything? Should I upgrade my copy of Roxio? I don't need anything too fancy. Reliable is good. Need not be free. Thanks |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
Three Lefts wrote: I have a fairly new PC (Dell Inspiron 9400) running XP pro. I recently bought a DVD for my grandkids entitled Noodlebug. I was planning on playing it on my laptop. I put the DVD in the drive and was surprised that it did not start right up. I opened up My Computer and right-clicked on the DVD icon (drive D and selected the play option . I got a message saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on my computer". When I click on the Help button I am taken to this Microsoft web page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...userlocale=409 There, I am told that I may need to purchase a compatible DVD decoder (or MPEG-2 decoder) and offered a link to a place where I can buy one: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...spx#DVDDecoder There I am offered a number of choices. One of then is Roxio. I have been using a copy of Roxio that came with the Dell machine to burn DVDs and CDs. I started it up and it recognized the DVD, but when I click on the Video button, the only option I get is Upgrade. So, it looks like XP Pro does not come with software that can play this DVD. If I look at the contents of teh DVD, I see a bunch of files with filetypes of .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB, 76 in all. It's annoying that XP Pro doesn't have even a a simple player installed. So if I am going to have to buy more software, I would prefer not to give it to Bill G. Can anyone recommend anything? Should I upgrade my copy of Roxio? I don't need anything too fancy. Reliable is good. Need not be free. Thanks This is unusual. Dell typically packs a DVD viewer with its machines equipped with a DVD unit. If not on the hard drive, check the utility cdrom that came with the Dell. What might not be unusual would be trying to play a Blu-Ray or a HD DVD. These require special players. |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
You need one of the later versions of divx pro (a codec). Just download it and don't worry about trying to register it the pro version is
for encoding as well as decoding. Do a search for divx pro and install it then the dvd thing will play. Also you may consider using "power dvd deluxe" from a warez site. very, very good for playing dvd's. So install divx pro and use power dvd deluxe from a warez site. Three Lefts wrote: I have a fairly new PC (Dell Inspiron 9400) running XP pro. I recently bought a DVD for my grandkids entitled Noodlebug. I was planning on playing it on my laptop. I put the DVD in the drive and was surprised that it did not start right up. I opened up My Computer and right-clicked on the DVD icon (drive D and selected the play option . I got a message saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on my computer". When I click on the Help button I am taken to this Microsoft web page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...userlocale=409 There, I am told that I may need to purchase a compatible DVD decoder (or MPEG-2 decoder) and offered a link to a place where I can buy one: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...spx#DVDDecoder There I am offered a number of choices. One of then is Roxio. I have been using a copy of Roxio that came with the Dell machine to burn DVDs and CDs. I started it up and it recognized the DVD, but when I click on the Video button, the only option I get is Upgrade. So, it looks like XP Pro does not come with software that can play this DVD. If I look at the contents of teh DVD, I see a bunch of files with filetypes of .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB, 76 in all. It's annoying that XP Pro doesn't have even a a simple player installed. So if I am going to have to buy more software, I would prefer not to give it to Bill G. Can anyone recommend anything? Should I upgrade my copy of Roxio? I don't need anything too fancy. Reliable is good. Need not be free. Thanks -- Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
Here pal use winrar to decode it. Click on free. put in code 4 letter and number code.
http://rapidshare.com/files/30754954...aDeluxev73.rar Use TM for the password. Three Lefts wrote: I have a fairly new PC (Dell Inspiron 9400) running XP pro. I recently bought a DVD for my grandkids entitled Noodlebug. I was planning on playing it on my laptop. I put the DVD in the drive and was surprised that it did not start right up. I opened up My Computer and right-clicked on the DVD icon (drive D and selected the play option . I got a message saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on my computer". When I click on the Help button I am taken to this Microsoft web page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...userlocale=409 There, I am told that I may need to purchase a compatible DVD decoder (or MPEG-2 decoder) and offered a link to a place where I can buy one: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...spx#DVDDecoder There I am offered a number of choices. One of then is Roxio. I have been using a copy of Roxio that came with the Dell machine to burn DVDs and CDs. I started it up and it recognized the DVD, but when I click on the Video button, the only option I get is Upgrade. So, it looks like XP Pro does not come with software that can play this DVD. If I look at the contents of teh DVD, I see a bunch of files with filetypes of .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB, 76 in all. It's annoying that XP Pro doesn't have even a a simple player installed. So if I am going to have to buy more software, I would prefer not to give it to Bill G. Can anyone recommend anything? Should I upgrade my copy of Roxio? I don't need anything too fancy. Reliable is good. Need not be free. Thanks -- Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
Tony wrote:
You need one of the later versions of divx pro (a codec). Just download it and don't worry about trying to register it the pro version is for encoding as well as decoding. Do a search for divx pro and install it then the dvd thing will play. Also you may consider using "power dvd deluxe" from a warez site. very, very good for playing dvd's. So install divx pro and use power dvd deluxe from a warez site. Tony is not quite right, I'm 98% sure that divx will not decode a commercially encrypted DVD (EG. a movie on DVD that you've bought). I'm fairly sure (if Tony says so) that divx includes a MPEG2 decoder that will play non-commercially encrypted DVDs, just not the commercial ones. I was astounded to find the same thing as Three Lefts when installing XP, commercial DVD decoding is an amazing omission for XP. When I mentioned it to my brother, a dedicated Mac user, he just laughed. Personally I use an excellent bit of software called Intervideo WinDVD Platinum 8.0 to play my commercially encoded DVDs. It is superior in my opinion to Power DVD, which I used to use. However many users complain WinDVD takes an age to load, which was true on my old not too powerful PC (as much as 30-60 seconds!!), but is not true for my new v.speedy machine on which it loads in about 5 seconds. If this is an issue for you go for Power DVD, which is decent, if not then WinDVD which is superior in my opinion. As far as I know there are no free applications that will decode and play commercially-encoded DVDs - this is because MPEG-2 encryption is a proprietary standard and requires licensing from software developers. ffdshow, a large collection of video and audio codecs, is a better bet than divx, url below. It incorporates many video standards including MPEG-2, divx, xvid, and many, many, more into a single install, and is really a very good bit of freeware. It won't decode commercial DVDs though, but will play pretty much anything else so is worthy of an install regardless. ffdshow: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=173941 If you require further help on this or similar issues I'll gladly help. However videohelp, url below, is a wealth of info. tools, guides, etc., along with a very helpful and active forum. http://www.videohelp.com/ HTH. Three Lefts wrote: I have a fairly new PC (Dell Inspiron 9400) running XP pro. I recently bought a DVD for my grandkids entitled Noodlebug. I was planning on playing it on my laptop. I put the DVD in the drive and was surprised that it did not start right up. I opened up My Computer and right-clicked on the DVD icon (drive D and selected the play option . I got a message saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on my computer". When I click on the Help button I am taken to this Microsoft web page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...userlocale=409 There, I am told that I may need to purchase a compatible DVD decoder (or MPEG-2 decoder) and offered a link to a place where I can buy one: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...spx#DVDDecoder There I am offered a number of choices. One of then is Roxio. I have been using a copy of Roxio that came with the Dell machine to burn DVDs and CDs. I started it up and it recognized the DVD, but when I click on the Video button, the only option I get is Upgrade. So, it looks like XP Pro does not come with software that can play this DVD. If I look at the contents of teh DVD, I see a bunch of files with filetypes of .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB, 76 in all. It's annoying that XP Pro doesn't have even a a simple player installed. So if I am going to have to buy more software, I would prefer not to give it to Bill G. Can anyone recommend anything? Should I upgrade my copy of Roxio? I don't need anything too fancy. Reliable is good. Need not be free. Thanks -- Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday |
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think that how it accidentally worked on mine i use VLC for most things and it plays dvds put one in the other day and media player sprang into life much to my suprise "Tony" wrote in message ... You need one of the later versions of divx pro (a codec). Just download it and don't worry about trying to register it the pro version is for encoding as well as decoding. Do a search for divx pro and install it then the dvd thing will play. Also you may consider using "power dvd deluxe" from a warez site. very, very good for playing dvd's. So install divx pro and use power dvd deluxe from a warez site. Three Lefts wrote: I have a fairly new PC (Dell Inspiron 9400) running XP pro. I recently bought a DVD for my grandkids entitled Noodlebug. I was planning on playing it on my laptop. I put the DVD in the drive and was surprised that it did not start right up. I opened up My Computer and right-clicked on the DVD icon (drive D and selected the play option . I got a message saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on my computer". When I click on the Help button I am taken to this Microsoft web page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...userlocale=409 There, I am told that I may need to purchase a compatible DVD decoder (or MPEG-2 decoder) and offered a link to a place where I can buy one: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...spx#DVDDecoder There I am offered a number of choices. One of then is Roxio. I have been using a copy of Roxio that came with the Dell machine to burn DVDs and CDs. I started it up and it recognized the DVD, but when I click on the Video button, the only option I get is Upgrade. So, it looks like XP Pro does not come with software that can play this DVD. If I look at the contents of teh DVD, I see a bunch of files with filetypes of .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB, 76 in all. It's annoying that XP Pro doesn't have even a a simple player installed. So if I am going to have to buy more software, I would prefer not to give it to Bill G. Can anyone recommend anything? Should I upgrade my copy of Roxio? I don't need anything too fancy. Reliable is good. Need not be free. Thanks -- Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
In message , Tony
writes You need one of the later versions of divx pro (a codec). Just download it and don't worry about trying to register it the pro version is for encoding as well as decoding. Do a search for divx pro and install it then the dvd thing will play. Also you may consider using "power dvd deluxe" from a warez site. very, very good for playing dvd's. So install divx pro and use power dvd deluxe from a warez site. Does using Divx require a Divx compatible DVD drive? -- bertieboy |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
no , just a standard dvd drive there is no such thing as a divx drive - but there are mains dvd players some of which are divx "bertieboy" wrote in message ... In message , Tony writes You need one of the later versions of divx pro (a codec). Just download it and don't worry about trying to register it the pro version is for encoding as well as decoding. Do a search for divx pro and install it then the dvd thing will play. Also you may consider using "power dvd deluxe" from a warez site. very, very good for playing dvd's. So install divx pro and use power dvd deluxe from a warez site. Does using Divx require a Divx compatible DVD drive? -- bertieboy |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
In message , spring
writes no , just a standard dvd drive there is no such thing as a divx drive - but there are mains dvd players some of which are divx Does using Divx require a Divx compatible DVD drive? So it is just a codec then? Thanks. -- bertieboy |
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DVD decoder for XP pro?
yes - just a codec http://www.divx.com/ the free download is what u want they have other bits that you can pay for included but the codec is free xvid is the open systems sort of equivelant - http://www.xvid.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid this codec lark is a whole subject initself http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm or if your into using a diff media player - try http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ it copes with divx and most stuff on its own and dvds its about 9 meg "bertieboy" wrote in message ... In message , spring writes no , just a standard dvd drive there is no such thing as a divx drive - but there are mains dvd players some of which are divx Does using Divx require a Divx compatible DVD drive? So it is just a codec then? Thanks. -- bertieboy |
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