[Professor Frink]

Searching the forum for "codec" brings up a lot of hits, and it's hard to sort it all out....

What would I need to do exactly to get WMP9 working as a DVD player? I have full installations for both PowerDVD and WinDVD, but I like to keep my programs down to a minimum (this is for my office). Plus, I'm having problems with an unattended PowerDVD (see HERE).

I know that by default, WMP can't play DVDs. So what can I do to turn it into a DVD player? Is there a codec I can simply extract from either of those programs, and drop it in the System32 folder? It's probably not that easy, though.

[jdoe]

Try this one


DVDPack

[Famer]

Try here

http://www.free-codecs.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...ecdownload.aspx

http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/


Hope this helps

[bucketbuster]

You also have to enable the DVD-functionality, I believe.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings]
"EnableDVDUI"="yes"

[Professor Frink]

jdoe:

So I can just throw that msi file into my batch file along with everything else, and WMP is now a fully-functional DVD player?

[jdoe]

DVDPack and MP3Pack are MSI I always keep in a backup disk. MP3Pack enable WMP9 to encode audio file to MP3 instead of WMA.

For now I don't have a DVD Player but I keep DVDPack for when I will buy one.

I'm enough sure DVDPack (even if I have not test it) is like MP3Pack, so Yes, you just have to add this MSI in your batch and it will enable WMP9 as a DVD player with nothing else to do.


If it don't please give me a feed back about it.

[xolox]

Just checked out DVDPack. I'm not sure, but I believe it just installs Cyberlink's PowerDVD decoder *.dll in System32 and registers it. Not sure if it's illegal though, to distribute that *.dll without PowerDVD ... But it'll probably work for WMP because in Windows XP's installation it says "Play's DVD's (with external decoder)"

[jdeboeck]

dvdpack is the cyberlink codec and not a recent version of it

[Professor Frink]

Well, I'm not worried about legality, since we're fully licensed for PowerDVD anyway.

But if that isn't a very current version of the decoder, will that affect me at all? And if so, am I able to somehow pull the decoder out of the PowerDVD installation package that I have?

[jdoe]

@peter o.
It's surely not legal like many files distributed on the Web but if you use it for your personal use (not distribution) - As long as you don't host those files on your own Web site well I don't mind if others take this risk.

The legality of the Web possibilities, is and will be for a long time, a problem.
The old laws are just ineffective like for P2P.

It's off-topics - sorry.