Are there any free "soft" dvd players like PowerDVD?

[barlav]

Are there any free "soft" dvd players like PowerDVD? Thanks!

 

[MGMorden]

For region-coded DVD's, no. A company has to pay a royalty fee to some standards committee for every hardware or software dvd player they distribute. So to give one away for free the author would have to pay that commitee for every person using the software, without making any money himself. Not gonna happen anytime soon.

 

[spdfcker]

Give this a try, it should allow you to watch DVD's on your system for free...


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings]
"EnableDVDUI"="yes"

This will work with Media Player 6.4 and up if I rememeber right.
Save this to a file with the .reg extension and click on it to merge it with the registry and enable the media player to use DVD's. I had used this for a while till I purchased PowerDVD. It is not a robust as the other softwares but it will get the job done. As always make sure that you have a backup of the registry first before doing this.

 

[ragiepew]

spdfcker- I tried your suggestion... didnt work. I am using win2k + media player 7. If you have any suggestions let me know... thanks.

 

[Bluga]

when did PowerDVD bacame free?

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Buy a new vga card that bundles powerdvd or windvd.

 

[A2KLAU]

Well this is what to do! Go on the interent and then go do a search and download a demo copy of it. Then go to a warez site and search for cracks for it. Then when you have downloaded the software demo and the crack then you can install the software and crack it and you will have the full version of the software for free rather than pay the fee... I know it is dodgy but there you go... You asked and here is the reply. I use WinDVD2.1 and it is creacked and it has worked very well with my Asus 8X DVD drive which is chipped

SKY.

 

[spdfcker]

ragiepew,

Even though you have Media Player 7 running, you can still call up the other mplayer in the run box... just type mplayer2 and it should run the other copy not the version 7 player and the option for the DVD should be there.. let me know how it works out..

 

[LocutusX]

That suggestion of yours will only work if he has some MPEG2 DirectShow filters installed on his system. If it's a vanilla Win98/Me/2000 system that has never seen a DVD playing app before, chances are he won't have any MPEG2 DShow filters.

 

[nickburns]

you can get the trial version of PowerDVD for free, but it only allows you to watch about 10 minutes or so, but i am sure that someone has a way around that

 

[ragiepew]

thanks guys... will try to take a look @ it when i get home... am at work now .