Playing DVD's on Laptop

mac123

Can anyone advise the best (free) way to play DVD's on laptop??

Tried Windows Media Player and it says i need codecs - tried to download this and now it says

Windows Media Player is currently unable to play DVD video. Try decreasing the number of colors displayed on your monitor or decreasing the screen resolution.

How do i do this?? Running Windows XP

Pulse

The Kazaa-Lite codec pack or the DIVX codec pack will do you fine. These are .exe files, which you can just install, so nice and easy.

As for an application to play the DVD, I use BSPlayer. Nice and light, so you shouldnt get any slow points in the DVD (like Windows Media Player, which is quite an intensive application, so causes slow downs at points, and the picture has to be sped through to get back to where the sound is).

Hope this helps.

P.S. BSPlayer is made by Webteh, just in case you can't find it. Sorry for not providing links, but I'm at work.

Mr_Skint_2

http://www.bsplayer.org/index.php?p=download&PHPSESSID=896fe66cc33277201f9ed0ca4cb74613
BS Player

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm K-Lite Free Codecs for Windows Media Player

Pulse

Thanks Mr Skint for that. Work connection is tooooooooooo slow to go rummaging around for links unfortunately!

Mr_Skint_2

No worries matey :beer:

pin

Medsia player classic, great little program, can play DVDs:

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

netdumdum

Have you tried http://www.videolan.org/. I had that problem and this program sorted it!