Freeware DVD player?

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ceed

Hi,

Is there a freeware DVD player out there? I do not play to many DVD's on
my laptop and the one that comes installed is a huge piece of bloat. I
seem to remember that the ones I have looked at in the passed were full of
spycrap. I understand that he codec needed isn't free, but stil I would
like something simple and free.

TIA for help and pointers.
 
On that special day, ceed, ([email protected]) said...
Is there a freeware DVD player out there? I do not play to many DVD's on
my laptop and the one that comes installed is a huge piece of bloat.
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The simplest way is to install a test version of a commercial player
and un-install it again. The codecs remain on the hard disk and can be
used even by Microsoft's Media Player.

If you don't want to do it that way, you can ovbtain codecs for free,
like Xvid;-), and use them in any given player. The DVD players aren't
much more than proprietary players, which use those or similar codecs,
after all.

Googling, I found
http://www.cliprex.com/ (not tested)
where there is even a link to the Fraunhofer DVD codec to download


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Is there a freeware DVD player out there? I do not play to many DVD's on
my laptop and the one that comes installed is a huge piece of bloat. I
seem to remember that the ones I have looked at in the passed were full of
spycrap. I understand that he codec needed isn't free, but stil I would
like something simple and free.
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VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/

VLC is a free cross-platform media player.
+ It supports a large number of multimedia formats,
without the need for additional codecs
+ It is available for almost every OS
+ It needs little CPU power


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ceed ha scritto:
Hi,

Is there a freeware DVD player out there? I do not play to many DVD's on
my laptop and the one that comes installed is a huge piece of bloat. I
seem to remember that the ones I have looked at in the passed were full
of spycrap. I understand that he codec needed isn't free, but stil I
would like something simple and free.

TIA for help and pointers.

--//ceed

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KMPlayer
http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php
Download page:
http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=6

KMPLAYER is a korean movie and audio player that supports a wide range
of codecs and file formats, It has full VCD/DVD playback functionality.

KMPlayer is a program that allows you to play audio and video files.

The KMPlayer Features:

1. Supported Files or Devices
- HTTP Streaming(AVI etc including none-streaming media)
- Directshow playback (avi, mkv etc)
- Real Engine + Directshow (needs Real Player or Alternative)
- QuickTime Engine + Directshow (needs QuickTime player or Alternative)
- Mplayer Engine Support
- Winamp Input Plugin(decoder) Support
- Compressed Audio Album Support(zip, rar)
- Audio CD(2000, XP only / Win9x-Support by winamp plugin)
- Video CD/SVCD/XCD : CDXA Format (2000, XP only)
- DVD playback
- DTS Wave and AC3 files
- WDM device support like TV or Camera
- CD Image File (BIN/ISO/IMG/NRG) ; NRG needs mplayer.dll
- Shoutcast (Including NSV)
- AAC, OGG parser/decoder
- Shockwave Flash/FLC/FLI
- Ape/MPC/Flac/Module etc
- Various Image files like png, gif etc
- Incomplete/Damaged AVI file (Skip Damaged Frames)
- Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing


2.Built-in Codec/Filters
- Video Codec
MPEG4 (Divx/Xvid : ffmpeg/xvid)
MPEG1/2 (ffmpeg/libmpeg)
etc (ffmpeg)
- Audio Codec
AC3/DTS/LPCM/MPG/MP3/OGG/AAC/WMA
2Ch to Multi Channel expansion
- External Codec
Media Priority to Connect among Directshow, Real, QT, Winamp and Mplayer
Custom Filter Manager
System Filter Manger

3. Plugins
- Winamp Input Plugins
- Winamp DSP Plugins (Can Stack)
- Winamp Visual Plugins (Can Stack)
- Winamp General Plugins (Media Library etc Support)
- KMP Video Plugins by SDK (Can Stack)
- DScaler Filter Support (Can Stack)
 
ceed said:
Hi,

Is there a freeware DVD player out there? I do not play to many DVD's on
my laptop and the one that comes installed is a huge piece of bloat. I
seem to remember that the ones I have looked at in the passed were full
of spycrap. I understand that he codec needed isn't free, but stil I
would like something simple and free.

TIA for help and pointers.
Click to expand...

I still say that the best one is Media Player Classic:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

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I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
ceed said:
Hi,

Is there a freeware DVD player out there? I do not play to many DVD's on
my laptop and the one that comes installed is a huge piece of bloat. I
seem to remember that the ones I have looked at in the passed were full of
spycrap. I understand that he codec needed isn't free, but stil I would
like something simple and free.

TIA for help and pointers.
Click to expand...

Well, I prefer VideoLan Media Player aka VLC which can be downloaded
from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ . This program is open source & runs
on many operating systems. In addition to playing DVD's, it can play
many other audio/video formats.

Check out the features page at
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html .

VideoLan is one of the best DVD players & it is open source.
 
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