Posted: 3/23/2007 8:01:51 PM EDT
| I got a new laptop and it has a DVD drive. Unfortunately, windows media player does not have a DVD decoder pre-installed. Anyone know of a good free player or codec to download? |
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To my knowledge there isn't a good DVD decoder out there for free, look to spend a little bit of money on Power DVD or something. What does your laptop have for a graphics card? Sometimes companies like NVidia or ATI have them available for download if you have their type of video card. |
| FFD Show Free decoder that works with any format and with Micro$oft Vi$ta. |
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There are a few codec packs that will allow any Windows media player to play DVDs. BUT... if you have an NVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon card, there are codecs available that off-load the decoding work to the graphic chips on your card, instead of having your CPU do all the work. And the video card hardware even does a little better job rendering the video. NVidia's PureVideo costs money, but works great. www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html ATI's codec is free, but you have to have a Radeon install CD to get it. ati.amd.com/support/drivers/common/mmc9-14.html -Troy |