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GnomeWizardd
18 Jul 2005, 1:53am
Want to play dvd's on my new lappy but just looking for the best free player
leishi85
18 Jul 2005, 2:01am
windows media player classic works for me.
TheBaron
18 Jul 2005, 4:20am
not windows media player classic, just "media player classic", or MPC

zoomplayer also does a good job
ryko
18 Jul 2005, 4:58am
nDVD at the top of the page.... haven't tried it personnally, but heard it is the best for free!

http://www.dnsoft.be/
tcith
25 Jul 2005, 5:41am
I have always liked zoom player
Thrax
25 Jul 2005, 5:49am
Mpc.
entropy
25 Jul 2005, 5:53am
For free, I'd agree and say Media Player Classic.

If I had my choice, though, I would not recommend it at all. It's great for video files, only passable for DVDs. For DVDs I really prefer PowerDVD 6 to it, but it's not free, either.
TheBaron
5 Aug 2005, 2:53pm
hmm I guess I never got around to replying to entropy -- when powerDVD, WMP, and ATI's MMC all failed to play my Snatch DVD correctly, MPC had no problem. with its abundance of built in decoders, it really can't be beat. with that said, its not very good unless paired with a good set of codecs (not for DVDs of course), but I'm going to shy away from the norm and not recommend the community codec pack (CCCP). I've had wierd lag issues, which I think has to do with a bad integration of vsfilter, so instead I'm going to recommend DefilerPak, which just had a new release to coincide with a new SSE release of FFDshow. all in all, the most minimal codec setup you'll find
GHoosdum
5 Aug 2005, 3:28pm
A lot of the HTPC builders on AVSForums go with Zoomplayer for some reason (probably for its FFDshow compatibility) - since they're AV snobs and like to upconvert all of their DVDs to HD resolutions. :D