Is there any free DVD-decoders in the Net.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-12-23 05:57pm

Is there any free DVD-decoder for DVD-ROMS in The for Download (I use Windows XP), since it sucks that I can't play Far Cry or play any DVDs on PC.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-12-23 06:00pm

Not sure about what you want but this:

[url=ttp://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/index.php]Daemon tools[/url] will let you emulate a DVD drive in windows.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-23 06:15pm

I think he wants a dvd codec...

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-12-23 06:19pm

I have a DVD-ROM drive already, so codec is probaly the thing I'll need.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-23 06:24pm

since the dvd player itself doesn't seem to be working have you tried checking the manufacturers websites for the latest drivers? if it won't play games or movies then it's probably the driver rather than a codec.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-23 06:31pm

Well it won't play games or movies w/o a driver or if it's set up wrong. But it won't play movies if you have no codec. My geuss is that you need both. And if it's set up wrong you need to fix it.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-12-23 08:06pm

All that my Windows says about the drive is that it's IDE DVD-ROM 16x, it doesn't say who made thew dam thing

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-23 08:38pm

What exactly won't play? Some games won't work w/ some dvd drives. Can you play cd-roms on it? If you can then any game that's not working won't work whatever you do to the drive and all you need to download is a DVD codec so movies will work.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-12-23 09:08pm

darthdavid wrote:What exactly won't play? Some games won't work w/ some dvd drives. Can you play cd-roms on it? If you can then any game that's not working won't work whatever you do to the drive and all you need to download is a DVD codec so movies will work.

Only far Cry won't (it's also my only DVD-ROM game, but CD-ROM games with out any problems (and I can play movies now as well (found CD that corrected that problem.)))

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-23 09:39pm

Then the problem is farcry. See if you can exchange it for the cdrom version.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-12-24 12:30am

Have you tried the game in another computer? Try looking at the disk with Isobuster and see if it reads it correctly. If it does, then its something on your end, not the game.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-24 12:40am

To add something to the DVD-decoder thing, nVidia has a DVD decoder on their site on a 30 day trial (read: passable if you try

) and is supposed to be great quality.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-12-24 12:42am

Ace Pace wrote:To add something to the DVD-decoder thing, nVidia has a DVD decoder on their site on a 30 day trial (read: passable if you try ) and is supposed to be great quality.

Psst! Its either a game or drive issue. This has nothing to do with software decoders.

Hell, the damn game may have some sort of DRM on it that his drive may not recognize. This has happened before with older games way back in the day.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-24 12:43am

Vertigo1 wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:To add something to the DVD-decoder thing, nVidia has a DVD decoder on their site on a 30 day trial (read: passable if you try ) and is supposed to be great quality.
Psst! Its either a game or drive issue. This has nothing to do with software decoders.

Hell, the damn game may have some sort of DRM on it that his drive may not recognize. This has happened before with older games way back in the day.

Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-12-24 12:48am

Ace Pace wrote:Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question

Yes, but if you actually followed the thread, it ended up being something completely different.

Furthermore, it wouldn't matter if Lord Revan had a codec or not since that doesn't apply to games. However, this is all moot since Revan can clearly play movies just fine, so doesn't need another software application to play movies.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-24 12:50am

Vertigo1 wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question
Yes, but if you actually followed the thread, it ended up being something completely different. Furthermore, it wouldn't matter if Lord Revan had a codec or not since that doesn't apply to games. However, this is all moot since Revan can clearly play movies just fine, so doesn't need another software application to play movies.

I've read the thread, but I was thinking maybe, maybe someone else came into this thread expecting a codec link, maybe for his own troubles.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-24 01:01am

If they did then they could've asked. No need to pre-emptively attac... er ... link.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-12-24 06:00pm

It's driver issue (the Battle for Middle earth won't work either).

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-12-24 06:42pm

Ace Pace wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question
Yes, but if you actually followed the thread, it ended up being something completely different. Furthermore, it wouldn't matter if Lord Revan had a codec or not since that doesn't apply to games. However, this is all moot since Revan can clearly play movies just fine, so doesn't need another software application to play movies.
I've read the thread, but I was thinking maybe, maybe someone else came into this thread expecting a codec link, maybe for his own troubles.

And I appreciated it.

Terr Fangbite · Post by **Terr Fangbite** » 2004-12-24 07:31pm

I know my dad got one off of a dvd (he loved it more than the one he was using.) I think it was a harry potter dvd or something.