April 9, 200817 yr Reinstalling everything from scratch after switching to Windows Vista, I discover that I've lost my CD key for PowerDVD 6. I never much liked PowerDVD anyway, but it always came free with whatever computer I bought so I've always used it, and I understand that unless I have it or something similar installed, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer won't play DVDs either. So is there anything else out there that will do the same job? For free would be nice too, of course. "An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)
April 9, 200817 yr Media Player Classic. I'm guessing VLC also works. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
April 9, 200817 yr VlC works fine, thats what I use. I like Chrystal player the best, but it isen't free and it is dependent, like media player, on codec downloads for playing various non dvd formats, VLC seems to make do with just DirectX/draw Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
April 9, 200817 yr AVS DVD Player works great for me Edited April 9, 200817 yr by Kelverin J1 Visa Southern California Cleaning
April 9, 200817 yr Author Cheers guys. I've downloaded VLC and it seems to be working fine, although it doesn't enable Windows Media Player or Realplayer to see DVDs the way that PowerDVD does. On the other hand, it's able to run pretty much everything and it opens and closes very quickly - much better than Windows Media Player. "An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)
April 9, 200817 yr PowerDVD - is just terrible, glad I got rid of it. J1 Visa Southern California Cleaning
April 9, 200817 yr Do you have an Nvidia card? If so you could consider investing in their PureVideo DVD decoder. It offloads the bulk of the decoding process to the GPU, plus it does a fantastic job (the best I've seen) of deinterlacing non-progressive-scan content. You can use the decoder with frontends like Media Player Classic, Zoom Player (both excellent frontends) and even Windows Media Player.
April 9, 200817 yr Author Thanks, I've had a look at the website. I think I'll see if I can get used to the VLC interface. If I can't, then Purevideo looks like the best option. "An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)
April 9, 200817 yr I use Dell's MediaDirect on my laptop, and it seems ok. "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot
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