AVS Media DVD player

[Mack]

Hello-
I acquired a second-hand IBM Thinkpad, with a Matsushita SR 8176
DVD drive. It would not play DVDs, when I got it. I downloaded the
AVS Media DVD player, and now it begins to load, then stalls.
I tried a couple of different discs, and they got to about 40 - 50%,
then stalled at that point. I'm running Win2k Pro.
I have done a fair bit of searching, already. At one point, I d-l'd
a trial version of another player, and it worked fine. So, I doubt it's
a hardware issue.
Is there a fix for this? Or, is there another free DVD player that's
going to run better?

TIA

Mack

 

[myweb]

Hello Mack,

Try this one:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Best regards

myweb
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[Mark Blain]

I acquired a second-hand IBM Thinkpad, with a Matsushita SR 8176
DVD drive. It would not play DVDs, when I got it. I downloaded the
AVS Media DVD player, and now it begins to load, then stalls.
I tried a couple of different discs, and they got to about 40 - 50%,
then stalled at that point. I'm running Win2k Pro.
I have done a fair bit of searching, already. At one point, I d-l'd
a trial version of another player, and it worked fine. So, I doubt it's
a hardware issue.
Is there a fix for this? Or, is there another free DVD player that's
going to run better?

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DVDPLAY.EXE is built into Windows 2K Pro. As long as you
have the necessary codecs installed it should work, although third party
programs like WinDVD and PowerDVD recover instead of getting stuck if your
DVD has a scratch. If DVDPLAY doesn't work at all, try VLC: it includes
its own codecs.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[Mack]

Try this one:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Got it. Works just fine. Thanks

 

[Mack]

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DVDPLAY.EXE is built into Windows 2K Pro. As long as
you
have the necessary codecs installed it should work, although third party
programs like WinDVD and PowerDVD recover instead of getting stuck if your
DVD has a scratch. If DVDPLAY doesn't work at all, try VLC: it includes
its own codecs.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Thanks. I dl'd VLD, and it works fine.
Also located DVDPLAY.EXE on my HD.
Apprently, no codecs installed. As I said in my initial
post, this is a second-hand machine, so I'm not sure
what is, or isn't, loaded.

Thanks again,