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I was wondering if there was a dvd decoder software that is free that i could download, I have a memorex dvd player drive but whenever i put in movies to my computer it never lets me watch movies

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kesava8@hotmail.

I use Avs Media Player. Its the best I could find and its free.

http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx

The_Other_One

Does that program have a build in decoder? I know Media Player Classic works great, but you still need some type of decoder installed on the machine.

K-Lite Codec pack should include a decoder.

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kesava8@hotmail.

I'm not sure what you mean by dvd decoder. but I got it cos WMP Player wouldnt play my dvd's and I couldnt get a program like power dvd that wasnt on a trial. The only thing I dont like about it is that when you put a dvd in. it "analyses" it or something. this takes longer when the disc has more scratches. I guess it does this to get all the information to ensure smooth playback.

Praetor

Short version is "an MPEG2 codec of sorts". A few years ago, free options were rare but now they are commonplace. You can get ffdshow to do MPEG2 and then you can play DVDs in almost any standard player

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Cromewell

Oddly enough I got ffdshow a while back and WMP still couldn't play DVDs, yet I clearly remember using it for WMP before. So I'm using my 30 days of purevideo right now.

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Praetor

Perhaps this was back in Windows2000 days? My early W2K days, System32\dvdplay.exe could play it fine (or it might have been WME, it's all a blur at this age)

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Cromewell

No it was on XP, in fact it's right now Maybe it's just WMP11 is broken, I think I remember it working on WMP9 and I know it was with WMP 10. It doesn't really matter, Media Player Classic works fine for me as does purevideo.

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