Can anyone suggest a good (i.e. free) DVD player?

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2004-01-24 08:03pm

I just bought a DVD/CD-RW combo drive (drive only) and have gotten it working on my antiquated system. (It's a P3-500, working on a P2B board, so it's pretty much upgraded as much as it's gonna go.) DVD playback works just fine, if I use the crippled PowerDVD I downloaded to try it out. Problem is, I'm really cheap, which means I'd really rather not buy the full version if there's a decent shareware or freeware option out there. I've downloaded a few different players, but I can't find one which has a DVD decoder built in (my video card is a Matrox Millennium G450, so there's no hardware decoding for me).

So, this is the $64 question: does anyone here know of a DVD decoder I can employ without laying out the big bucks?

Many thanks in advance.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-24 08:18pm

There's VideoLAN Client.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2004-01-25 09:22am

It works, thanks a bunch!

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-25 05:24pm

You already have something i know, but here's the codec i use. You can use it with your player of choice (though i don't recomend the one on that page because it licks ass)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-25 06:45pm

Any downloadable DVD filter is almost certainly ripped off a commercial product.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-25 08:59pm

Your neighbors.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2004-01-25 09:35pm

To david: um, what codec? I don't see a link.

To DarkPrimus: Erm, what about my neighbours?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-25 09:46pm

SCRawl wrote: To DarkPrimus: Erm, what about my neighbours?

Take their DVD player. Doesn't cost you a thing, now does it?

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2004-01-25 09:52pm

Ah, I gotcha. Well, I'm cheap, but I'm not *that* cheap. (It's an ccupational hazard -- I'm a buyer.) And in case there's any misunderstanding, I'm not looking to pirate software (or steal hardware, for that matter), but rather to make use of stuff people put out there for free.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-01-25 09:57pm

Theres also nVidia's DVD player. I don't know how good it is since I use PowerDVD instead...