Adam, WMP doesn't work at all in playing DVD's on my PC (while it is capable to play mpegs). That's the reason for suspecting some extra piece of software is needed, and I asked for that.
Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:57 AM Subject: Re: OT - Advice on free DVD playback software > Christian wrote: >> Dario Bonazza wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>Any advice for a good (and possibly free) DVD playback software for XP? I >>>need no special feature, only plain reliable DVD player leaving your PC >>>alive. Tucows has a lot of them, but... which one to choose? >>> >>>And one last info: will such software need to have a lot of extra >>>software >>>installed for working? >> >> >> When I got the box set of Star Wars, the DVDs had a DVD player software >> on them which I installed and used on my laptop. Check your DVDs... >> just put one in your PC and see if there is software on it that you can >> install. >> >> > > In a pinch, Windows Media Player is a competent DVD player. > > -Adam > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

