media player wont play DVD files

[treebeard]

i upgraded from XP pro to vista and i cannot seem to get medial player
to play DVD files like it did in XP

What i did, i left XP installed on a 40GB "C"drive and installed vista
"clean" on a 300GB "d" drive, hoping i could import a few inportant
files and bookmarked internet sites later. Is there any way to find
the codec from XP and install it into media player in vista???

TIA for any and all help

Gene

 

[John Inzer]

i upgraded from XP pro to vista and i cannot seem to get medial player
to play DVD files like it did in XP

What i did, i left XP installed on a 40GB "C"drive and installed vista
"clean" on a 300GB "d" drive, hoping i could import a few inportant
files and bookmarked internet sites later. Is there any way to find
the codec from XP and install it into media player in vista???

TIA for any and all help

Gene

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Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

Windows Vista -
Play a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center
http://tinyurl.com/5yxj43
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/7f278c85-8ac1-4f47-aa20-5e81f7d29baf1033.mspx


--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.mediacodec.org/

A good link for codecs.

 

[treebeard]

any sugestions on how to get rid of the pop-ups, and toolbars that
site installed??

 

[Mick Murphy]

I don't know what you installed; but I have no probs with it!
You have to read what you are installing!